Outstanding trip in every way!
Norway
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Aug 16 - Aug 30, 2025
The staff planned an absolutely fantastic trip!! They really listened to what we were interested in and recommended activities, hotels, and a route that suited our needs and desires. We were THRILLED with everything! The hotels were lovely - great locations, quiet rooms, and the caliber that we wanted. The activities were outstanding! We particularly loved the RIB boat trips on the fjords. But, truly, we loved all our activities.
Hotel Reviews
Great location. Very quiet rooms. Very clean, modern bathroom, lovely linens. Highly recommend
Amazing location, very quiet room, convenient to everything. Very clean, modern bathroom
Very nicely furnished, comfortable linens, modern bathroom, clean, nice to have a living room and a bedroom. The food and dining room was very nice. Lots of places to sit and talk. The city itself doesn’t have much in it to do but we enjoyed hiking
What a location! The hotel was lovely in an incredible location and the breakfast area and dining room were very nice. Would definitely recommend staying here for Flam. We stayed in an historic room. It was very quiet, with lovely sheets, and a modern bathroom. However, the chairs and sofa in the room needs to be restuffed. We couldn’t sit on them - but that wasn’t a problem. Also, although the bathroom is modern and lovely, our room had a ball and claw tub which would be a challenge for some people to use.
Great location. Loved the balcony view, big clean room, modern bathroom. Breakfast very extensive.
Loved this hotel. The location is wonderful. It’s on a very quiet side street with lovely flowers in the middle of the street near all the sights. The room is colorful, clean, modern, compact, and our room was very quiet. Would definitely recommend.
Activity Reviews
The food was fine but we didn’t think it was anything special. If you go there, fine. But, there’s so many other restaurants to try.
Great view and great location. The food is very good.
We got to taste bites of a lot of different foods and we learned a lot. The tour guide’s knowledge and information was very good. However, the guide had a cold, non-conversational demeanor. We felt that a bubbly or warm or more engaging tour guide would have improved the tour. Also, Kim-Kim did notify the tour company of our allergies/dietary restrictions and the guide did ask at the beginning of the tour if anyone had allergies. But, the food choices could have been arranged ahead of time to easily accommodate our needs. Because we didn’t want to make a big deal in front of others, we just didn’t eat some of the items. Having said all this, we still enjoyed the tour and felt very lucky to have tasted so many interesting items and we learned so much.
Terrific! The guide was wonderful! He was knowledgeable, cheerful, gave us a lot of information about Oslo, paced the walk perfectly for the people in the group. It was a lovely 1/2 day trip and we really enjoyed it.
Loved the location on the pier. There was a lot of variety on the menu and the food was good.
This was truly awesome! This was one of the highlights of our month trip! The scenery is absolutely spectacular and the guide was lively, very informative, interesting, and just delightful. The cheese tasting and the information on the town and cheese making was very interesting. The RIB boat company was very professional, gave great information, and the boats were very nice. Don’t miss this! It’s wonderful!
Very special - a must see in this area. Great views! It’s a landmark type of experience.
Surprisedly good! We really enjoyed seeing areas we did not get to see otherwise. It was just the right mix of information, the right length of time at each stop, and it was a good length overall. We enjoyed this more than we expected. We would recommend it!
What a wonderful experience! This is a fun, informative, interesting, and very tasty activity! The owner showed us part of the apple orchard as he explained the history of their business, the kinds of apples grown, the cider making process, etc. He was lively and interesting. Then, we had a tasting of 5 types of cider with food pairings (we did the late afternoon cider pairings with snacks). The food and cider were delicious and the setting, sitting on their beautiful terrace overlooking part of their orchard, was lovely. We highly recommend this activity!
We really enjoyed this RIB boat experience. It was different from the RIB boat experience in Flam. If you were only picking one of the two to do, we’d pick the one in Flam with the cheese tasting. However, this was also wonderful and we’re so, so glad we got to do both. The scenic beautiful out on the fjord is spectacular! The tour guide was knowledgeable and being on the water in both towns was truly memorable! This is definitely worth doing!