Trip Features
Journey Highlights
- Look for the Aurora Borealis while crossing the Arctic Circle
- 3 FREE days in Bergen, including a panoramic city tour — a value of $1000 per couple!
- Visit Bryggen Wharf — a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Spend 12 days on board ship, with stops at more than 34 Norwegian ports during your journey
- 3 Vantage-exclusive included tours in Tromso, Trondheim, and Kirkenes — a value of $600 per couple!
Your Price Includes
- Purchase your airfare from Vantage, and your airport transfers and government taxes and fees are included
- Accommodations: 11-night Northbound and Southbound full cruise along Norway’s coast, and 2 nights in Bergen at the Superior First-Class Radisson Blu Royal Hotel
- 36 meals: 13 breakfasts, 11 lunches, and 12 dinners, including a Welcome Dinner
- 18 port-of-call Vantage Small Group Discoveries orientation walking tours
- 7 exclusive Vantage onboard discussions
- 3 Vantage-exclusive shore excursions in Tromso, Trondheim, and Kirkenes
- 15 Learning Discoveries during your cruise, including sailor’s knot tying lessons and coffee under the Northern Lights*
- All transfers and baggage handling overseas (where permitted) when you purchase your airfare from Vantage
- Experienced Discovery Leader to accompany you during your trip
- Vantage 5% Travel Reward, upon your return, to use toward your next
Vantage Memorable Journey®
*Please
note: Hurtigruten features are only available from January 1–March 15, 2013,
and November 15–December 31, 2013.
Highlights
On Your Coastal Voyage:
- Visit Norway, Vantage's #1 Top
Selling Destination!
- Visit the beautiful Art Nouveau town of Ålesund
- Cross the Arctic Circle, passing the mighty Borvass
Mountains
- Cruise the spectacular Lofoten Islands
- Visit
Tromso, capital of Arctic Norway
- Transit the North Cape,
Europe’s northernmost point
- Visit Bodo, one of the most dramatic
settings in Norway
- Cruise stunning Varangerfjord and
Trollfjord, among others
- Stroll in Honningsvag, a harbor town
rebuilt after devastating German bombing in WWII
- Visit Kirkenes,
northern terminus of your voyage, an important Cold War outpost
- Visit
medieval Trondheim, now a lively university town
18 Port-of-Call Vantage Small Group Discoveries orientation walking tours
14 Hurtigruten Features during your
voyage, from coffee and liqueurs under the Northern Lights to
sailor's knot-tying lesson.*
7 exclusive Vantage Small Group Discoveries onboard discussions:
- Winter Life in Norway
- WWII — “The Heavy
Water”
- DVD on “Heroes of the Telemark”
- Norwegian cooking
culture
- Winter Olympics & Norway
- Native Norway: Vikings & Sami
- Norway
fishing industry
15 Learning Discoveries:
- Take part in a ceremony to mark crossing the Arctic Circle
- Watch a fishing demonstration by a local fisherman
- Interact with local fishermen as they present their daily catch
- Try your hand at the ancient practice of ice dipping
- Attend a ceremony to mark leaving the Arctic, with traditional fare
- Taste traditional Norwegian fish cakes as you learn about the Battle of Trollfjord
- Enjoy a Magic Light presentation
- Attend the Captain's Northern Lights presentation
- Listen to a "Tromso: Gateway to the Arctic" lecture
- Watch a Sami history presentation
- View a film about Vardo and its historical connections to Russia
- Captain's Talk: Way of Life in Norway
- Learn about the energy history of the islands
In Bergen: City tour of Bergen,
with a visit to Troldhaugen, the lovely former summer home of Norway’s
favorite composer, Edvard Grieg.
