Recommendations for Norway

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Some friends have asked whether we would like to go to Norway with them and share a cabin. We are both families of five (kids aged 9-13), enjoy the outdoors and aren't too bothered about luxury. The site that they have forwarded to us is really hard to navigate and looks like all the cabins are very remote and hard to get to (5km walk from car parking, which is fine, only getting to Norway with cars is going to be a pain, because there are no direct ferries to Scandinavia from the UK). Does anyone know of any cabins that would be easier to get to (if we fly)? General recommendations for Norway? We love wild swimming, they are into canoeing and fishing. Thank you!

Hi. I think a lot of the people who rent out cabins in Norway these days do it through airbnb, so worth having a look on there.

Some cabins might be accessible by public transport.

We went last year but we sailed and hired a car its a fantastic place
www.visitnorway.com/listings/trollstigen-the-troll-s-road/5937/

Went to this glacier look at the video at the bottom of page
www.visitnorway.com/listings/briksdal-glacier/3571/

We passed loads of half empty camp sites.
We sailed in to Alesund and hired a car and drive to Trollsitgen, passed lots of nice places on the way, the car hire place also did motor homes.

We are going to Norway this summer (and Sweden) - for Norway booked 2 AirBNBs for most of it - we are staying in Flo by Ulsteinvik which is not far from Alesund - the Airbnb we have is on the beach (roughly £100 per night for 4 of us with cleaning, towels and laundry included). Its on the beach and lady there does kayak trips - that one only takes 5 or so but will be others in that area. There are seals, otters, puffins, odd whale in that area as well as fjords in driving distance which you can kayak in. Lots of fishing and wild swimming around though may not be that warm for swimming. Also Airbnb in Oppdal but no beach there. We are flying Ryanair at Oslo but can fly to Alesund too.

Just put in dates of 10 to 24 August and this is what's still available then for 8 people around there:

www.airbnb.co.uk/s/Ulsteinvik/homes?refinement_paths%5B%5D=%2Fhomes&adults=4&allow_override%5B%5D=&search_type=UNKNOWN&map_toggle=false&children=4&checkin=2019-08-10&checkout=2019-08-24&min_bathrooms=2&min_beds=6&min_bedrooms=4&amenities%5B%5D=9&amenities%5B%5D=8&amenities%5B%5D=4&amenities%5B%5D=33&amenities%5B%5D=78&property_type_id%5B%5D=2&property_type_id%5B%5D=4&property_type_id%5B%5D=60&property_type_id%5B%5D=11&s_tag=sINZlmDo

Originally was booked with Novosol but they cancelled with us so had to rearrange everything - they tried just to offer us a replacement first rather than refund. Novosol also do not review cottages. We therefore switched to Airbnb.

We are flying / hiring a car. Think trains are good in Norway but staying in cities puts price up a lot. There's a good train line Oslo to Bergen or can fly into Bergen. For what we are doing you need hire car. Things are a lot booked now.

We are also going to Oppdal

outtt.com/en/norway/oppdal

You can get there on train from Oslo airport in 4.5 hours. There's moose, musk ox and reindeer safaris that go from Oppdal station, couple of wild swimming places kayaking white water rafting canyoning etc (not sure how get there exactly)

This place does safaris, kayaking, fishing, has accomodation and says can get there on train: www.moskussafari.no if look under products. Not been yet but booked safari through them and got AirBNB. Flying with Ryanair, v cheap.

We've been to Norway a couple of times. First time we flew into Trondheim and stayed about 3 hours away in the Romsdal area.

Second time we drove taking the ferry to Rotterdam then took another from Denmark to Oslo. Advantages of taking the car is being able to take food and drink. We could break up the journey by staying with relatives in Denmark though.

Thanks everyone - we're flying to Bergen and hiring a car - very excited!