Long weekend in Norway

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 matched the long weekend. Just one day off and we had four days to travel to Norway. From the morning of 30 April to the evening of 3 May 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 would have 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 with the budget airline 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. Our grandparents will also come with us. So we will visit Oslo as a group of 4.

Good to know: Rygge Airport closed to civilian flights on 1 November 2016. Ryanair was the last airline with a base there. Today, if you plan a flight to Oslo, you need to look for flights to other airports.

These four days in the capital of Norway needed 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's an important thing worth mentioning - most booking.com reservations can be canceled without charge up to 1 day before the visit (unless prepayment was required). However, due to high demand in this period we made the second reservation first, and then canceled the previous one. This way we freed up the place in the hostel and were sure that we would not be left without a place to stay.

Want to see what offers are available in Oslo? Take a look here.

We have our flight tickets and a good hotel is booked. It will be a nice trip!