Extended opening hours for all businesses in December

The ministry of tourism and economic affairs has granted all businesses an exemption for their opening hours during the month of December. All businesses are allowed to extend their opening hours on working days, Saturdays and Sundays – including Boxing Day, December 26 - to 10 p.m.

On Christmas Day, December 25 and on New year’s Day all businesses are subject to mandatory closure with the exemption of pharmacies (for the sale of medicine and medical products), bars and restaurants, hotels and guesthouses, stores located in hotels and on the premises of the airport and the harbor, funeral parlors, gas stations and bakeries selling pastries, milk and milk products.