PK Campers vs Geysir Car Rental

PK Campers runs a small, budget-focused fleet advertised as 12+ campervan models, all built on converted 2WD vans. The lineup tiers by group size: budget two-person vans like the Renault Kangoo, VW Caddy, and Nissan NV start around EUR 50 per day; three-person medium vans (Renault Trafic, Opel Vivaro, automatic Caddy) sit in the EUR 60-80 range; and larger five-person family vans (Renault Master, Ford Transit) run roughly EUR 110-130. Manual and automatic options are available, with unlimited mileage on every rental. There are no motorhomes and no rooftop-tent or 4x4 models -- these are urban-van conversions, so genuine highland and F-road driving is effectively out of scope. PK competes at the cheapest end of the market alongside operators like KuKu and Cozy.

Geysir takes an entirely different shape, splitting a compact ~5-8 vehicle lineup into two distinct families. The first is iKamper rooftop-tent 4x4 SUVs -- a manual-diesel Dacia Duster (sleeps 2), a plug-in-hybrid Jeep Compass (sleeps 2), and a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe with a larger Skycamp tent (sleeps 3-4) -- all genuine 4WD and gravel/F-road capable, but with no built-in kitchen, toilet, or shower, so you cook outside and rely on campsites. The second family is built-in motorhomes ranging from an X-van for two up to an Economy/Family six-berth, all diesel, with a gas stove, fridge, Truma propane heating that warms both cabin and water, a freshwater tank and sink, 220V hookup, and -- on the six-berth -- an interior shower and toilet. These motorhomes are road-going and not F-road-rated. In short, Geysir spans both highland rooftop-tent camping and fully self-contained motorhome living, neither of which PK offers.

On equipment the two contrast in revealing ways. PK arrives trip-ready on bedding (duvets, sheets, pillows), Webasto diesel night heating, a fridge on most vans, and a 19L water tank with sink (10L on the Kangoo) -- but it carries real caveats: cooking gear ships with only one small gas cylinder good for roughly three days, and there is no auxiliary or leisure battery, so device charging is limited to USB through the radio head unit or a campsite shore-power hookup. Furniture (chair and table, EUR 15 each) and wifi (EUR 9 per day) are paid add-ons. Geysir's motorhomes are more genuinely self-contained on heating, fridge, water, and 220V power, but bed linen and the camping set of tables and chairs are paid extras there too, and the rooftop-tent 4x4s have no onboard kitchen at all. Net: PK includes bedding as standard where Geysir charges for it, while Geysir's motorhomes offer onboard water, heating, and power that outclass PK's battery-less setup.

Pickup, heritage, reputation, and cancellation separate them further. PK operates from a depot at Vagnhofdi 17 in Reykjavik -- about 45 minutes from Keflavik Airport -- open Mon-Fri 08:00-17:00 and Sat 08:00-12:00 (closed Sunday), with a paid airport shuttle (EUR 85 day, EUR 120 night); it is a city operation, not an airport counter. Geysir handles its campers from a Keflavik depot roughly 10 minutes from the airport with a free shuttle both ways and a staffed in-person handover from 08:00-18:00 (no 24/7 key box). On heritage, PK is a young owner-operated outfit whose legal entity appears to date to around 2019 (roughly six years, inferred from its company registration number rather than stated on the site), while Geysir traces back to 1973 and has run independently since 2003. Reviews call for care: PK shows a Google 4.8 from 427 reviews with no Trustpilot presence, though independent platforms paint a more mixed picture -- a small TripAdvisor sample skews low and some reviewers allege the Google reviews are managed, so read the headline number with a degree of skepticism. Geysir's car-rental Trustpilot is a polarized 3.2 from about 36 reviews, with its campers reviewed separately and more favorably under Motorhome.is, and no reliable Google count. Finally, cancellation diverges sharply: PK's 30% deposit is non-refundable as cash (a travel voucher is the best case), whereas Geysir prepaid rentals are fully refundable until midnight of the day 48 hours before pickup.