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Train Bergen
25 Reviews I recommend that you make arrangements with a travel agency package. All of your arrangements can be taken care off in one call. . We started the trip to Bergen with a train ride from Oslo to Bergen...
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Busses Stavanger
6 Reviews The best and cheapest way to travel around is by bus and Kolumbus is the company covering very well all the area. If you have in mind to remain here for at least a week, ask for a "Flexi pas". For a...
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Train Trondheim
11 Reviews Getting around Norway is easy if you go by train. It is relatively cheap, the standard is good and the view can be amazing :) The National State Railways (NSB) has a fairly good coverage between the...
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Ferry / Boat Bergen
11 Reviews Boats run daily Sogndal to and from Bergen (via Balestrand), more often June-August. Additionally, from June - August, boat service continues to Flåm with connections to Gudvangen sometimes possible....
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Train Stavanger
5 Reviews Long distance trains to Kristiansand and Oslo three times a day + overnight. Regional service to Kristiansand twice a day. Local train to Egersund every hour between 05:16 and 23:16 + 23:46, and a...
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Tramway and bus Trondheim
8 Reviews Lavprisekspressen (lit. "Low price express") offers 2 depratures a day between Oslo and Trondheim. One at daytime and one at night. If you order in advance you can tickets from 49 NOK!!...
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Bus.. Bergen
11 Reviews For only NOK60 you can catch a bus from the city centre (Strømgaten. 8) to the airport, there are about 3 buses an hour. The bus stops at a couple of places along the way and takes about 20-25 mins to...
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Boat or ship Stavanger
3 Reviews We took the ferry from Bergen to Stavanger. That is easy to do, brings you from one city center to the other. Its a 4 hour trip by catamaran. We had the bad luck that the weather wasnt good, halfway...
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Hurtigruten Trondheim
5 Reviews The ships of Hurtigruten are a great way to explore Norway and every day of the year 2 ships will arrive in Trondheim : At 06.30 am the southbound ship will dock and stay untill 10.00am At 08.00 am...
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Norway in a Nutshell Bergen
3 Reviews The wonderful Norway in a Nutshell trip ends with a train ride from Voss to Bergen. The ride was quite nondescript save for the typical Scandic countryside scene of grazing cows. When the train pulled...
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All transportation methods Stavanger
3 Reviews We traveled by Ryanair to Haugesund (actually Helganes) airport in September 2005. When I was planning this 'off-season' trip, I found it difficult to find information for costs, schedules, and...
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City Bikes and bike lift Trondheim
10 Reviews We were more than surprised when we saw this bicycle lift - the first one of its kind in the whole world. You have to obtain a key card in the bicycle repair shop in the same street where the lift...
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Airplane Bergen
11 Reviews The best and the fastest way to get to Bergen is by airplane. The airport is not very big located about 20 km from the city. There are not too many international connections and often you will require...
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Airplane Stavanger
5 Reviews At the moment there are two airlines operating in Norway., SASBraathens ( http://www.sasbraathens.no/Pages/EN/WebRes/braathens.html )and Norwegian ( http://www.norwegian.no/sw7127.asp ). There are...
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Airplanes Trondheim
5 Reviews Arriving to Trondheim airport almost means arriving to Hell. In order not to scare English-speaking visitors they didn’t name it after nearby small town, but named it Værnes, leaving the Hell sign at...
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Cruise Bergen
4 Reviews The coastal steamer arrives daily in Bergen at 2:30PM. Departures north towards Kirkenes are daily, 8PM mid-April through October, and 10:30PM November through mid-April. The northward trip takes 6...
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On foot Trondheim
3 Reviews As I mentioned before, we arrived in Trondheim by train, spent some 6 hours there and left by train again. During our stay in Trondheim we walked all the time, but we also noticed buses, taxis, the...
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Car / Motorcycle Bergen
5 Reviews To make a complicated theme easy: Don't park on the street in Bergen! The rules are complicated, and mostly you are simply not allowed if you don't have a special permit issued to residents. Except...
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By the road Trondheim
4 Reviews You will find a lot of good parking-spaces around the cathedral and parking is restricted there to 5 hours between 08.00am and 05.00pm. That way it is also possible to stay with your small motorhome...
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Flytoget is the best way (very fast and cheap in comparing with taxi) to get to Oslo from Airport. You do not need to take a ticket; at the entrance of the station swipe your credit card, that is all. Paperless transportation, If you need a receipt, then you get registered to their web page and they mail the receipt to your mail address.As I remember it travels between the airport and Sandvika.
Driving distances may take longer than you think in Norway.If you choose Satellite view in www.googlemaps.com and zoom in along the route you'll understand why: mountain ridges, detours along water, lots of climbing and descending.I've driven once in Norway, around Stavanger. You don't cover that many miles but it takes a long time because of the landscape.Here's more info on traffic and speed limits in Norway.
I booked a tour called the "Norway in a Nutshell" at ACPRail.com that takes you through the incredible scenic locations in Fjord. Some of the delights of this trip included the The Bergen Railway, northern Europe's highest railway, which travels between Oslo and Bergen, the journey on the Flam Railway which has an incredible view of mountains and waterfalls. This journey is continued by boat from Aurlandsfjord and into the Naeroyfjord, the narrowest fjord in Europe. Again a mighty mountainous view! The coach journey continues up the incredible bends of Stalheimskleiva. There is a short stop over at the hotel and then the journey continues to Voss. All in all a trip to remember!
The trains in Norway are fantastic.....and can be really cheap. I was there in 2008, and found it cost approx. 60 Australian dollars to train from Bergen to Oslo, and about the same from Oslo to Trondheim. There are special fares called 'mini priss' available during the week, with a choice of departure times. The trains are clean, modern and a great way to see the countryside.
Many visitors come to Norway for the scenic views of the fjords and the mountains and in my opionion the best way to see this, is to drive your own car. With your own car you can stop whereever you like to have a look at the views or take pictures. You will also be able to get to places where no public transportation or tour bus will take you. Have in mind that because of the fjords and the mountains the roads in Norway can be quite curvy and go up and down a lot, so you will probably not be able to drive as fast as in many other countries. On the other hand, you are on vacation and you want to enjoy the views. To get across some of the fjords you will need to take a ferry, and a lot of places there are tunnels to make the road shorter and straighter through the mountains or under the fjords. If you have the time and possibility you should at least try to find a way of getting around...
When you are in the fjord areas of Norway, you should be aware that you will probably need to take some ferries. Most places they depart quite often during the day and you will not need to wait for a long time or plan in advance, you just go there and get in the queue. On other distances you will need to plan because there are limited departures. I have been on a lot of ferries in Norway and have never needed to book in advance, it has been first come first serve. The ferries normally take from half an hour to 2-3 hours and often comes with some fantastic views!The ferries come with a fee, and as it varies from route to route, I can not give a pricelist here, but I think the prices will start at around 80-100 NOK for the car and driver and around 30-50 NOK per adult. This will vary between different routes and is also depending on the size of your vehicle. How to pay could be different...
There are around 50 toll roads in Norway. The toll fees are there mainly to pay for road projects. Prices lies between 15-40 NOK for a car and is more expensive the larger the car is. Some special tunnels or bridges can have a fee of a couple of houndred NOK, but they are not that frequent.There are different ways to pay in the toll station, and if you are planning on driving around in the areas with most toll roads for a couple of weeks, I think the easiest one is the AUTOPASS. You can register you credit card for this before or within 14 days after you passed through your first toll in Norway. If you choose this solution you will never have to think about having Norwegian coins available, you just need to make sure you are in the right lane when you pass the toll plaza. If you don't want to use the AUTOPASS, there are a couple of various tolls. One version where you need to stop and...
It is possible to get to Oslo by bus from Sweden and Denmark. There are expressbus lines that come along the west coast of Sweden and there are lines coming from Stockholm. I used to travel a couple of times a year with the night bus from Stockholm to Oslo and I also travelled frequently from Gothenburg to Oslo during a period, and there were never any problems. Just remember to bring a pillow for the night bus so that you can sleep.
I would say that if you want to do a round trip in Norway, a car is the best way to travel since it makes you much more flexible both regarding the places you can visit but also when it comes to the possibility to stop and enjoy the sights where ever you like.That being said, it is possible to get around in Norway without a car as well. My experience is that expressbus is often the cheapest way to travel, and Norway with all it's mountains and fjords is not the optimal country for trains and thus the buses will take you to other/more locations than what is possible by train. All buses have seat guarantee, they will add another bus if there are much people. They like though that groups of 9 or more book in advance. You should check their website for more information, but general rule is that if you are more than 1 person and book in advance there are possibilities to get better prices. It...
From Denmark you can get buses to Sweden, upto Gothenburg, via Malmo. Bus from Gothenburg to Oslo takes about 6 hours, and Gothenburg to Stockholm about 7 hours.Equally, Stockholm to Oslo bus takes 8 hours, overnights are available, so you could then catch a train in Oslo to reach Bergen. This train ride is very scenic as you approach Finse. Get off at Myrdal, and take the rickety Flamsbana - worldfamous. Goes through stunning parts. From Flam catch a ferry ride, then bus to Voss, next arrive in Bergen via another train.The above will give you a taste of the fjords in Norway. From Bergen (fjordland capital) you could select many fjords, eg Sogne. Hard., Geir., etc. In Bergen definitely take the funicular to view the city from above - breathtaking!Trains in Norway are quite expensive, but not if you book in advance: look for mini-prix fares at www.nsb.noGood luck.
Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica Oslo Oslo
9 Reviews and 221 Opinions The hotel is located close to a popular hiking and cross-country ski area and in walking distance...
Rica Travel Hotel Bergen Bergen
3 Reviews and 204 Opinions Having no advance bookings due to traveling without set itinerary and during peak summer season, we...
Rica Nidelven Hotel Trondheim
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Q: I am wondering which is the best period for a 1-week ski mountaineering holiday in the Lofoten Area and I would like to know if...
A: The Lofoten (and Vesterålen) islands never have that huge amount of snow, they are out in the Gulf stream. Mind you, they weren't even covered by the ice cap that covered...
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