Hi! Due to issues outside of my power, I only have a week to find a place to stay in Tromso for 2 months. Any advice for where to look?
I have Erasmus budget, so not much. I need something relatively cheap. I don't need anything fancy or big, just somewhere I can sleep in peace.
I'm a very chill female student. I don't drink, smoke nor party.
Hi! We'll be in Tromsø for 5 days (3 full days, excluding our arrival and departure days) in , and we'd like to maximize our chances of seeing the Northern Lights.
We've been to Finland and Iceland in previous years but unfortunately didn't see them. On both trips we rented a car and drove to areas with clear skies and good solar activity, but we still had no luck.
I know that if the weather is good they can be seen just inside Tromso city.
Would you say a Northern Lights tour is worth it? I imagine that tours which only take you 1–2 hours from Tromsø may not offer much of an advantage. However, I noticed that some tours will drive all the way into Finland or Sweden if it's cloudy around Tromsø or elsewhere in northern Norway.
Are those longer tours worth it? Do they significantly increase the chances of seeing the aurora compared to going out on our own with a rental car?
The other option would be to rent a car and drive around at night ourselves, but from what I've read, many people don't recommend doing that. What would you recommend?
If you recommend a tour, which one? There are so many of them.
EDIT: I FOUND IT!!!! I went up to the summit again and miraculously found it. Lesson learned, never hiking with a ring again.
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I was hiking to Hesten summit on 7/5 and lost my engagement ring (picture attached) at the summit area, most likely within 10m of the true summit where I had sat down to rest. It’s a rose gold band with small diamonds on the band and a center diamond. I’m extremely devastated that I lost it as it is hugely sentimental. I will happily pay a reward if you find it. Thank you for reading!
Hello all,
I will be traveling with partner to Tromso in mid-september for two nights and would like some insight on these questions.
Thank you!
A lot of tourists come to Norway to camp, having heard of Allemannsretten and thinking this means you can camp anywhere freely. Not everyone seems to have heard of the actual premise of allemannsretten.
Firstly: it only applies to "utmark" - wild areas. Utmark is anything that is not "innmark". Innmark includes yards, farms, "dyrket mark" which is agricultural land (meadows, farmed area etc), parks, industrial land etc.
This means that practically any area that appears wellkept and maintained is not utmark, and generally not for freecamping.
Places like Telegrafbukta or Charlottenlund are beautiful and well-maintained, and tourists sometimes try to use them to camp. But they are beautiful and well-maintained because they are city parks/recreational grounds. I don't know of any country where it is normal to camp at playgrounds or recreational grounds, and it certainly is not normal here.
It is an odd experience to go for a run at an outdoor running track in the middle of the city and see 4-5 tents pitched (including in the community Gapahuk), and then see someone in their underwear stumble out of their tent to pee on a tree (fyi: also highly illegal in Norway).
So, rule of thumb: Allemannsretten only counts in the wild (and if the area looks taken care of, it probably does not) - and there is no private house or cabin within 150m. Even then you can only camp in one place for 2 nights, and you must leave the place without a trace.
If you prefer to sleep on maintained grass with facilities, please go to a campground, not a city park or yard.
A few months ago I planned a trip to Tromsø for November. For anyone who’s interested, here are the costs for two people:
4 nights in a B&B: just under €600
Round-trip flights from Milan to Tromsø: around €400
Whale/orca watching tour: €300
Northern Lights tour: €200
So the total is around €1,500, plus other expenses (for example, the cable car is about €50 per person) and food.
My original plan was to stay another 2–3 days, but between changing the flights and adding three more nights, it would cost another €700–800, which is almost the price of another trip! 🫣
Any other ideas for things to do? Otherwise, we’ll just explore the city during the downtime between excursions. I’ve ruled out dog sledding, snowmobiling, and reindeer experiences because I already did those a few years ago in Finland.