Nice trip! Brilliant tour leader, driver and chef. Only negative the last few days were literally just “drive days”
i thought it was quite expensive, but everything was covered and looked after. Well worth the mokey, best way to travel as an individual.
Scenic. Stunning. Remote places. This trip has the WOW factor!
best friendships are forged
So many postcard sunsets
Can’t wait for next time
The northern exposure tour was absolutely fantastic. The scenery was beautiful the entire trip. Strongly recommend the Svartisen glacier hike and the Geirangerfjord cruise in Norway. All the cities visited were beautiful and easy to walk around.
The only negative comment I have is that if you go to Nordkapp, check what time the sun will set. If it's not mid summer the sun will set fairly early (before 9:30) so you don't exactly get the 'midnight sun'. It probably would have still been amazing if it hadn't also been cloudy but with the cloud it wasn't even the most impressive sunset of the trip.
A couple of tips:
It says that you need a sleeping bag, but bed linen or a liner will be fine as the places you stay all supply blankets they just don't have sheets.
If you plan on drinking and snacking throughout the trip, stock up early (preferably Berlin but Sweden is similar to Australian prices) as Norway and Denmark are super pricey.
From the camping sites, if you have a spare day, I recommend asking about hikes.
Long drives, not enough stops between the long drives.
Awesome tour leader, chef and driver team! Judes Lish and Jany!
Couldn’t fault Judes preparedness and friendliness! And couldn’t have found a more awesome tour group. I didn’t want to do Europe with Contiki since they had a horrible reputation of being a party and booze group who were hard by the locals. Top Deck was not as rowdy and had a more variety of mix of people which got along with each other pretty well
Loss of a star: was abit on the expensive end. Was advertised as $3.5 AUD but had a lot of optionals that we had to pay for since the alternative was to do nothing meaning we had to pay an extra $1.5. Although it is understandable because of the expensive Scandinavian countries we were going to, would have been nice to be given the heads up. Also Santa’s village in Finland was closed by the time we got there, and we couldn’t really eat much local food in the tour
This tour was really good value for money!
Scandinavia is such a large expensive area and this trip enabled me to see so much of it at an affordable price.
The team worked really well together to provide us all with the best experience possible. The food was soo good too.
Con. Sitting in a bus a lot.
Really good trip with some amazing views.