Last Updated on July 25, 2018 by PowersToTravel
Total and per-day Norway travel expenses (costs) for 2 people for 18 days during early high season (2nd half of June to beginning of July) 2016 traveling throughout Norway. This includes:
- Bergen,
- driving through the fjord country up to Trondheim,
- taking the train to Bodo,
- renting a car in Bodo to ferry to Lofoten, and around,
- then driving to Tromso,
- flying to Svalbard, and
- taking wildlife day trips out of Longyearbyen, Svalbard.
We got around!
The tables show accommodation, entertainment, food, souvenir and transportation costs / prices.
The purpose of this post is to show what a 3 to 4 star traveler will spend, not what a hostel / street food traveler will spend. As I plan for a trip I struggle to create the right budget, because the Internet is full of bloggers scraping by, and showing the rest of us how we can do it on the cheap. I don’t find information for the rest of us.
This trip expense report represents independent travel.
One requirement that drives our accommodation costs up is our strong desire for DOUBLE BEDS. Europeans are strange in that they seem to want to sleep in separate beds on vacations. Even when a room is advertised as a Double, it is usually two beds or two mattresses pushed together. The problem is that the set-up causes me to fall into the crack between! When they advertise King-sized, that often as not means two twins shoved together. So I always check out the hotel pictures, and choose the rooms that meet our requirements. Sometimes that drives up our costs. We consider it worthwhile.
You probably aren’t interested in the accommodation prices anyway, because anyone can look that up on the hotel booking sites. I myself would be more interested in the food and transportation costs, and the accumulation of entertainment costs.
As we don’t drink, the restaurant expenses do not include alcohol, just Diet Coke (and Diet Dr. Pepper where we can find it!) They don’t include desserts, either. I would like to say that those “Ice Cream” lines are just for Greg, since I am a diabetic, however that would be lying :-).
Additionally, the expenses for car rental are for automatic transmission cars – we don’t like the standard-shift cars so prevalent in Europe. So you will find those prices elevated, and may not apply to your style. We also don’t pack light, so we seldom get the smallest car.
Here’s the per diem totals:
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The individual restaurants, hotels, etc are displayed below, so you can understand what “star” level we travel at, and then compare it to your own.
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