Long Stay Parking

$15 per day gets you into KEF’s Long Stay Parking

Long Stay Parking at Keflavik International Airport sits about 0.5 miles from Terminal 1, priced at $15.00 per day for longer trips where the main goal is keeping costs predictable. It’s the standard long-term lot for KEF, not a premium product, so think basic outdoor parking at a fixed daily rate rather than anything fancy.

Weekly pricing lands at $105.00, which is exactly seven times the daily rate, so you don’t get a discount for staying longer, but you also don’t get penalized. If your trip runs 7–10 days, this is usually the easiest number to plug into your budget: just multiply by the days and you’re done.

The lot is about 0.5 miles from the terminal, so walking with full luggage in Icelandic weather isn’t most people’s first choice. Instead, you’ll use the airport shuttle system that moves people between Long Stay Parking and Terminal 1. The distance is short enough that driving time itself is quick, but timetable gaps matter more than road time here.

Shuttle transfer runs around 10 minutes on the low end and can stretch to about 15 minutes when you factor in waiting and loading. Build that into your schedule on both ends of the trip. If check-in at KEF asks you to arrive 2–3 hours before departure, add the shuttle window on top of that, not instead of it.

Practical tip: when you park, snap a photo of your row and the nearest shuttle stop sign so that after a long flight back into Terminal 1, you’re not wandering the Long Stay lot trying to relocate your car in the wind and dark.