We are going to Norway for a long weekend in May!
The idea came up when we were looking for interesting cheap flights using the Skyscanner app. We found a cheap flight that perfectly matches with the long weekend. Just one day off and we had four days to travel to Norway. From morning 4/30/2015 to evening 5/3/2015.
The original plan was that we would go there as a whole family and rent a car on site. But we quickly gave up the idea when we saw the prices. Renting 3 child car seats cost the same as renting a whole car. So we needed to pay as much as for renting two cars. We skipped this option.
Flight tickets are the smallest expense. Norway is one of the most expensive countries in Europe and Oslo is considered to be the most expensive capital. And somehow it didn’t scare us.
We are flying budget airlines – Ryanair. We will arrive at Moss Rygge Airport, which is 70 km away from Oslo. The sensible options to get to the capital are either train or bus. We have also decided that only the gentlemen will take part in the expedition. A father-son expedition. We will also go with grandparents. So we will visit Oslo in 4 people.
These four days in the capital of Norway need to be well planned. We want to see as much as we can.
Before the trip I bought a travel guide and city map. I chose the most interesting things to see and put together an itinerary.
Accommodation. Here we used booking.com, which proved to be great in the winter during a trip to Slovakia. The original choice was a hostel located in the city center. We made a booking and everything would have been fine, if I hadn’t decided to check the reviews of this hostel. I found out that this budget hostel is very dirty and guests complained about “bugs in bed”. Oh, no, we need to change our reservation, because we don’t want to deal with something like this. Here the important thing, which is worth mentioning – most booking.com reservations can be canceled without charge up to 1 day before the visit (unless a prepayment). However, due to high demand in this period we did second reservation first, and next we canceled previous one. This way we were sure that we would free up the space in the hostel and have something new instead.
Want to see what offers are available in Oslo, take a look here here.
Flight tickets we have, a good hotel is booked. It will be nice trip!