Things to do in  Oslo

Amazing! Our tour guide was AMAZING, her name was Krisi/Crisi and she was an Oslo girl. She spoke perfect English, full of fun factual information and brought the city to life! 5* for everything and highly recommend!!!

I am so glad to have gone on this trip. It was a great way to see Oslo from the water. And to see the coastline and beautiful traditional small (and larger!) cottages by the shore. Stopping off for the museums and being picked up again later was fun. The crew on board made us so welcome. Thankyou again.

Great way to start discovering Oslo, highly recommended. You see the most important places you need to see in a short time frame but are never under stress! Josh is a great guide I would highly recommend him!

Overall, I enjoyed the cruise. I was able to see Oslo fjord & other sightseeing places from the cruise ship.

It was great to see Oslo from the water and get a little history of the city. The boat ride was very pleasant and calming. It was quite chilly once we got going, but they had warm blankets to keep you warm.

The pick up location was right outside the cruise port building, so get tickets ahead so as not to wait in the queue for same-day purchase. The stops were in great locations to the main tourist attractions (we went to the Viking Museum and Vigeland Park) so having this option available to us made our day in Oslo wonderful.

Lovely way to see Oslo from a different perspective. Defintely a must. The tour took place on the Chistiania, a wooden old looking sail ship, even though it ran on engines all the time. You have a bar on board and get to see lovely views of the islands around. A must see in Oslo!

A complete round trip is 1.5 hours which enables you to get a pretty good insight to Oslo as well as seeing many of its major attractions. Would recommend this to those that have only a short time in this beautiful city.

This is without doubt the best way to see the sights of Oslo or any other city in fact. Our guide Patrick from Viking Biking was great and even in the pouring rain we had a truly memorable day.

Great way to see the city certainly a different experience for me. I would recommend this for Oslo, as it's not really that big of a city. And since cyclists reign supreme on the streets here, I felt very safe.

Oslo is a beautiful city and touring by bike was a fun and easy way to see the sights. Great food stop along the way, and our guide Lena was so friendly and informative. Only one tough, short hill on the ride, but I made it to the top without walking! Which she said had never been done, but I think she was just kidding me!

The best decision to visit this city. The Vigeland park is a must, We had one of the 65 days a year of sunshine and excellent weather of Oslo. Perfect! Beautiful city and do not miss the waterfront boardwalk.

Very enjoyable cruise trip. It was interesting to see the Oslo Fjord and the little islands surrounding the city. There was a bar onboard the boat with hot drinks and snacks available to purchase, which was really handy because it was very cold. You'll definitely need to wrap up warm on this one!

The buses ran frequently and covered all the highlights of the city. A very cost effective and complete way to see Oslo

Great. We spent almost all good attractions in Oslo by joining this hop-on hop off tour. Excellent way to see the city for the first timers.

This weekend trip from Oslo to Bergen and back was truly the adventure of a lifetime. The scenery was magnificent despite (or perhaps because of) the rainy weather, and my guide Hanne was simply a joy to travel with. She was personable, articulate, knowledgeable, and really allowed me to experience Norway for all too short a time from the "inside". Hanne grew up in Bergen and knows the country around there extremely well. She was even well-connected enough to allow me to - after we'd visited a goat cheese store with marvelous cheese - actually take me up to one of the farms that supplies the goat milk where the farmer, an acquaintance of Hanne's, proudly showed me his goats and milking barn. Try having an experience like that on one of the 'self-guided tours'! The days were very long - starting at 7:30 or 8:00 and not ending until 10:00 or 11:00 at night, but they packed so much into that time. On the first day I was able to take both the Sognefjord boat cruise and and Flam scenic railway; on the second day, Hanne took me back via an alternate route that featured a ferry ride across a fjord and several more magnificent waterfalls, one of which you could actually walk behind. I can't imagine a better way to see the real Norway in such a short time. The trip is expensive (everything in Norway is staggeringly expensive) but in this case it was worth every Kroner. And I could not ask for a guide better suited to such a tour than Hanne. Highly recommended.

The trail along the Akerselva River in Oslo is the best way to enjoy Oslo if you enjoy the outdoors! The trail passes by artsy and historical areas that you might want to visit again on foot. One of the highlights was the "foodie court" that we stop at the offers a wide variety of ethnic and Norwegian foods in a quant setting. Our guide provided a wealth of information on each of the areas we passed. It was a fantastic way to spend a morning in this beautiful city. The bikes they provided were great and it is a good tour for all fitness levels. It rained a little on our tour so I recommend that you bring rain gear.

Great trip, would highly recommend! Bjorn is an amazing and entertaining tour guide, very relaxed trip. Lots of highlights seen from Oslo to Bergen and you can stop anywhere you like with this tour to take photos (where safe!) and very informative. Would highly suggest the fjord cruise ship ride in winter, simply beautiful. Just a natural winter wonderland Norway, and this personal tour guide with a private van definitely is the best way to go solo or with a small group!!

This tour was surprising better than we had anticipated as we visited the main sites and our guide was a wealth of knowledge he had actually been on our ship prior giving a talk on Oslo the night before. Vigeland Park was a highlight which originally we hadn't even considered visiting. Our guide was also from Oslo so was able to give our group some information and suggestions for what to do and where to go after the tour as our ship was in port until late in the evening. Again, overall a better value than the tours offered through the cruise lines.

We booked this trip as a means of seeing the more memorable scenery country sights en route to Bergen and did not know what to see in particular. The guide Bjorn was very knowledgeable on the sights, the history, the buildings, the Vikings, the people, the fishing and hunting, and the economy the latter being of interest as the UK exit from the EU might be based on the Norway model. The renewable energy and the oil and gas illustrated the prospects of a good future and environmental pollution was low. How low was exemplified by drinking tap water which was better than any water we have ever anywhere else. This dialogue comfortably and interestingly passed the 2 hours it took to leave Oslo at 0600h and gain access to the wilder scenic parts. So what did we see -well many mountains and deep fjords although many waterfalls were frozen. One narrow single track road in particular took us from the fjord to a viewing platform with a glass end where houses in the village we left earlier appeared like children's toy houses and people like miniature Lowry stick men. A boat on the fjord could easily have been missed if not for its wake. Tranquillity and quiet ruled but we understand some people jump from here in some sort of suit with wings to the flat ground about 650m below. Apparently Norwegians' have a penchant for adventure and thrills so this, hunting, skiing and sledging with ,and without, dogs provided some gratification for this urge. You will feel insignificant facing the scale and depth of beauty before you and it's nice to know you can be away from the crowds and life's pressures. However we were told at peak times this is not necessarily so although the weather is better and the snow less deep. We were amazed at the ease with which we travelled in deep snow along the passes yet comforted by the fact that snowploughs patrolled regularly and new snow tyres where in use by a competent driver. There were parks where cars could wait for a snow plough and follow it in a convoy if necessary-it wasn't. Compared to say the Peak district in the UK only the foolhardy would venture out in such conditions but this pass was not a frightening trip in any way merely fun and exhilarating. We made the well known Flam for a short lunch enjoying some wonderful fresh sourdough bread sandwiches although we had had the necessary stop for coffee mid morning. We also had had some snacks and drinks we brought with us from the hotel as recommended by our guide Bjorn. Apparently there are four times as many goats as people near Flam and we got to a goat farm but they were all locked up. Goats cheese was available there too. Those not used to the cold should not worry we found it only a little colder than the UK midlands but we invested in insulated snow and waterproof boots as well as thermal attire, scarves, insulated gloves , woolly hats and hoods. Do not forget this and remember its even colder if you do a fjord boat trip and go on deck too at some time. I was recommended by the trip providers to highlight the unexpected -and some I have already done- but consider that young farmers can legally drive a farm vehicle on main roads in snow at 14 I think typifies the responsible attitude to risk here. Trained people seriously respecting danger have minimal risk issues. The other issue is the superb friendliness of everyone something that can evaporate with excess numbers in a lot of Europe . So back to trying to remember routes which because they were so beautiful with frequent changes meant either soaking up the full experience or becoming a slave to notes. Taking more photos is a solution by my camera was only intermittently working. Tip carry a spare one. The trip is too varied and changing to miss anything. However for the reader I believe we went through the following places but the order an even content may well be totally correct. This was as Bjorn would back track off roads to side roads for some special views. Surprising too you can stop for a while with hardly any traffic allowing you to capture photos. So the places were I think Aurland, Flam, Undreal , Voss, Sognafjord Naeroyfjord ,Gudvanger, Vossenvanger, Dale and finally Bergen. We were dropped off at our Hotel at after 6pm exhausted, very happy and grateful for the best day of our 8 days in Norway. What did we not like ? Firstly the cost of the trip. You have to consider thought how long it would take you to find out where to go, how to get there ,what it would cost and about a month getting acquainted with Norwegian history . On this basis it's a fair price and similar in cost to two days boarding in a to quality hotel . The reward is the memories you make on this special journey. Getting up at 5.30 am, is never my favourite thing either, but necessary. What did we like? All of the trip for all the reasons given above. You should holiday in Norway with Bjorn as a guide Its highly recommended and intriguingly different!