The Northern Lights of Norway by Sea

Customer Reviews

• Deborah

  · June 5th, 2025
  The best was the countryside and being in a small community. The glaciers were great. All of the tour was great and very memorable. Nancy Thomsen was wonderful and the bus driver Tomas too.
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• Dorothy

  · October 30th, 2024
  Loved visiting each of the countries and their capitals. Increasing my knowledge is an important part of my travel choice. Fascinated by the waterways in and around Copenhagen. Loved Tivoli Gardens. Impressed by the Vasa Museum and the history I learned there.. Fun riding the Flam Railroad. Relaxed traveling in the beautiful fjord region. Surprised by how much I enjoyed Iceland, especially Reykjavík. Great morning tour of Reykjavik.
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• Mary

  · October 30th, 2024
  Our Tour Manager, Johnny Friskilä, was EXCELLENT. He was very personable, friendly, and was always there even before I realized that I needed some help! He kept a kind, watchful eye on us all! He had good suggestions for free time! He & Micke Hellstrom (from an earlier Collette trip to Finland in January of 2023) are standouts as the BEST Trip Managers I have experienced from a number of organized tours! I loved the included trips, especially the Flam train and the ferries through the fjords and the scenery in Norway above timberline by bus. (We had excellent bus drivers, especially on the steep, winding roads in the higher country of Norway!) When we traveled by bus, we made good restroom stops with interesting things to see and available lunches to buy, including to a local museum & an IKEA store with a little IKEA museum, another stop or two had historic ruins with stories related by Johnny. I loved the larger museums that were included: The Vasa ship museum, The Fram ship museum, the folk park, Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark (& I visited a few extra museums on my free time with Viking exhibitions and Tivoli Gardens). We saw the "Little Mermaid" statue in Copenhagen and Johnny, our Trip Manager, brought "Danish pastry" for us all to try, which was a special, extra little bonus! I enjoyed the various walking tours with excellent local guides in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, & Bergen (which poured down rain)! But we were warned about the weather there! When we arrived in Bergen, it was NOT RAINING, so Johnny, our Tour Mgr., suggested that on our free time that afternoon, we might want to take the funicular for the view & get dinner at the waterfront. A group of us did exactly that & it was WONDERFUL! The hotels were excellent as were the breakfasts and dinners at the hotels. Some careful thought was given to our "Welcome Dinner" at a remarkable "garden" restaurant in Copenhagen, which was unique and delicious and our "Farewell Dinner" in the old section of Bergen. It was much appreciated to have a bus to transport us to dinner in the rain and on another occasion, when it was raining hard. The two photos I attached below include a view from Mount Fløyen of Bergen from Bergen's Funicular Railway, Fløibanen; and of a waterfall from Flåmsbana, the scenic train ride we took from Flåm, Norway.
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