- Choosing wings
- Hotel or apartment
- Transport subtleties
- Nightingales are not fed with fables
- Useful details
- The perfect trip to Norway
The land of bottomless fjords and skies blazing with aurora lights beckons travelers with its harsh northern beauty. But few dare to travel to Norway: the country is considered one of the most expensive in the world, and even for a few days spent in the homeland of the Vikings, you will have to pay a considerable sum. However, true tourists are not stopped by such troubles, because if you wish, you can find many ways to reduce costs during your trip.
Choosing wings
Oslo and Moscow are connected by regular daily flights:
- Aeroflot offers everyone a direct flight between the two capitals. Ticket prices start at $ 220. Travel time is a little over 2.5 hours.
- Connecting flights are traditionally cheaper. The most profitable options are offered by Air Baltic with a transfer in Riga. The flight with Latvian airlines will take about 5 hours, taking into account the connection, and will cost about $ 180.
You can also get to Norway by ferry. Communication from Oslo is established with Denmark - Copenhagen and Frederikshavn, and with the German port city of Kiel. The Norwegian port of Sannefjord is connected by a ferry to Sweden. The ships arrive there in the town of Stremstad.
You can also get to Oslo from the northern Russian capital by water. Cruises on the Norwegian fjords are organized by several St. Petersburg travel agencies. The route passes through Stockholm, and travelers spend just over a week on the way.
Hotel or apartment
Hotels in Norway do not obey European standards of stardom, but they guarantee their guests a good quality of rooms and decent service.
Considering the non-standard approach to classification, it is worth considering that in a "three-ruble note" in Oslo, a room may not have its own bathroom and toilet, and at the same time cost $ 90 without breakfast. A room with individual amenities in a metropolitan hotel with free Wi-Fi, parking and a restaurant will cost at least $ 130.
Norwegians rent rooms to tourists in their own apartments. The average price per night in a private room in the center of Oslo is about $ 60, but a security deposit will be required from the guest. Its size is about $ 100.
Transport subtleties
Tourists usually do not have problems with public transport in Norway. For $ 3, 7, you can buy a single sample ticket for a single trip by any type of transport. It can be used within an hour after composting. Travel can be made cheaper by using travel tickets or the Oslo Card.
Taxis in Norway are very expensive.
Car rental is available for people over 18 years old with an international driver's license. But there are so many toll roads in the country that the desire to move independently can cost a tourist a pretty penny. Only for money are vehicles allowed in the center of the largest cities in the country, and parking in Norway is paid everywhere.
Nightingales are not fed with fables
The Norwegian high cost has not spared the local catering either. The average bill for two for a dinner in a restaurant without alcohol may well be $ 60 or more. Even lunch at a regular McDonald's in Oslo lightens a traveler's wallet by $ 30 or more.
Advanced tourists, in order to avoid space spending, prefer to eat in national restaurants in the expatriate Greenland quarter in Oslo. There are many cafes with Asian and Arabic cuisine, where you can "get off" $ 10 for a hearty lunch.
Another useful address is the canteen of the City Hall in the capital. From 12.30 it is also open for tourists and a tour in the old building can be combined with a relatively inexpensive lunch in the national style.
Useful details
- Credit cards are accepted almost everywhere in Norway. For withdrawing cash, even the smallest village has ATMs.
- Buying an Oslo Card is a great way to save money while traveling in Norway. It gives you unlimited travel on public transport and free admission to museums. Cards are sold for a different number of hours - from 24 to 72. The daily cost will cost about $ 40.
- A passenger car will be allowed to enter the center of Oslo or Bergen only after paying a fee. It is about $ 4.
- A liter of 95th gasoline in Norway costs about $ 1.8.
- If you have the opportunity to warm up or cook food in a rented hotel room or in a rented apartment, you can save on food by buying groceries in supermarkets. Ready meals are offered by 7/11 and Narvesen stores.
- The price of one night in the ice hotel Sorrisniva Igloo is hardly low. A stay in a legendary place in the north of Norway will cost $ 560 for two.
The perfect trip to Norway
How often a person, exhausted by too hot summer, dreams of Norway, which always seems cool and fresh to him! In practice, it turns out that the warm Gulf Stream softens the local climate and even the winter in the land of the trolls is not as severe as one might think.
In winter, fans of alpine skiing, snowboarding and aurora borealis arrive in Norway. Local resorts welcome athletes in November and offer ideal skiing conditions until mid-April. The only "but" is the polar night, during which the sun hardly rises above the horizon. The artificial lighting of the ski slopes and the magnificent and inimitable Aurora Borealis fight against darkness.
The Northern Lights are best seen in Norway from mid-calendar autumn to the end of February. The most popular addresses where flashes of heaven are guaranteed to color the winter night sky are the North Cape in the north of the country, the city of Tromsø and the Spitsbergen archipelago. In Alta, you can admire the natural fireworks from your room at Sorrisniva Igloo. Its walls and furniture are made of pure ice. Lovers of the exotic are guaranteed a temperature of –7 ° C in the rooms and a hot jacuzzi on demand in the adjacent building.
Another unique natural phenomenon for which travelers in Norway rush is the midnight sun. From May to August, the luminary only touches the night horizon, and therefore summer in Norway is a time for a special atmosphere. Seeing the midnight sun is best in the city of Alta in the northern province of Finnmark. In addition to the soft light that floods the surrounding area, the city will offer guests ancient rock paintings, specimens of which are protected by UNESCO.
