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Highlights of Norway
8 DAYS
$6,849
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Accommodation
Scandic Ornen
Nights 1-2
Alexandra Hotel
Nights 3-4
Fretheim Hotel
Night 5
Hotel Bristol Oslo
Nights 6-7
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Poor communication, very poor tour guide, most hotel rooms were sub par. More times than not we had to handle our own luggage. Horrible flight times. No guidance whatsoever. 2 days of long bus rides. No wine at dinner, drink nazi at one hotel. Questioned us very severely in hotel bar that we did not pay for our drinks. Which we had. They were very ugly and made for a long uncomfortable evening. City guides were great. They were the only people we learned anything from .Deborah Campbell
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This tour was very well paced with both tour experiences and free time built in each day. Norway is a beautiful country worth visiting.Martin Stephan
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The guide was not good. I was disappointed in the whole tour.
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An upgraded hotel in Bergen would have been greatly appreciated. The hotel that was used couldn't accomodate a large influx of people with only one elevator.Dale Danklefsen
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Great trip but last hotel in Bergen had missing trim in plain view and wasn’t equal to the other hotels especially Hotel Bristo in Oslo. First night/ last night and few other meals meals were average. For such historic places I would thought the meals would be tastier. It would also be nice if the servers engaged you and explained what they are serving first night/last night but again a great trip.
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Wonderful tour manager made the entire trip memorable! Seeing the fjords and a glacier up close as well as so many beautiful waterfalls was amazing. Norway is breathtakingly gorgeous!
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Lucia a did an amazing job making recommendations and leading us to the best places, all while making everyone feel comfortable and cared for if anything went wrong!
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We got to see so many beautiful places, the food was beyond any expectation i could've had, our tour manager was a delight and having all the transportation arranged was so nice.Carol Reid
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Norway is a beautiful country. Tour guide Koppany Tuba is informative, entertaining & professional . My only complaint was at the Baltic hotel in Oslo. Our room was above a reception hall . The wedding band turned up the sound at 1115 pm - 115 am. Our room jumped. No sleep then. I called the front desk & no answer.. I spoke to the desk at breakfast , with no concern of theirs.
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The beauty and culture of Norway.
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Our guide was very personable and informative. Highly recommended as a top-notch guide!! The tour was well organized.Roxane Hartman
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The reason why this tour was so extraordinary: It was due to the knowledge and personality of the tour manager, Köpi. He was a genial guy who shared his knowledge of the area in an entertaining and informative way. The itinerary of this tour was perfect. The landscape of the Norway countryside was breathtaking. Great tour.
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Great Tour Manager, Fantastic Accomodations, Bus Driver and well orchestrated journey.Elinore Jeffcoat
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Our tour guide Kopi was excellent! The views were phenomenal! This was our 8th trip with Collette and we ranked this one our favorite so far! Pretrip had some bumps and I think flights could’ve been better but the trip was everything we’d hoped for. The weather was unusually warm for the area causing our hotel rooms to be extremely warm since there’s no air but I’m not sure how that could be helped.Celese Bullock
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So well planned and thought out!Brenda Holman
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Wonderful tour led by a very fun and informative guide. Beautiful scenery and fabulous hotels with great food., We had a very friendly group which made the trip quite fun.Kris
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Favorite times was breathing. the fresh aid and watching the water falls.Francis Szczepaniak
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The whole trip was great. The tour manager, bus driver, hotels, food, people on the tour. We had such a fun time. I would take a tour again from Collette.Cheri Holtzworth
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Only one hotel (Alexandra in Loen)was good. Bergen hotel was dated and dirty. Tour manager excelled at managing the days, but didn't bother to have us introduce ourselves on the opening night. Questions from people on the bus were often ignored. Need to listen better. There is a lot to see in Oslo. Starting on a Sunday when many restaurants and stores were closed wasn't great. Documents should encourage people to come a day early. More time in Oslo, less time in Bergen would make a better route.
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The tour was interrupted on my way to Norway. Colette provided no assistance and has yet to make the situation right. I am fairly sure that when everything goes correctly Colette is in an OK company, but if there are Problems or issues, Colette does not follow through.Denise
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having a knowledgable tour director who has patience & great sense of humor! Loved the sights & getting stuck T the top of the Loen gondola ride mountain. Everyone in charge of each tour was good also!
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Excellent service. We will use your company for our future travel. I would recommend your organization without reservations.Ramon Castro
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We had the best tour guide, Wendela Wiik, she was so informative and enjoyable. So fun to listen to. The add on trip to Iceland seemed not very well planned, hotel screwed up and walking that far (for some people) for the first night’s dinner was not too thought out however the dinner was delicious. I felt the tour guide wasn’t too well informed from Collette, about our add on but gave us some informative tours. Needless to say we had a great time
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Norway is a beautiful country, clean and green! The fjords and waterfalls are spectacular! And the food is great! And Norway’s history is long, and fascinating. The local guides were excellent sources of information.
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We loved the 4-wheel cart ride to a glacier as well as the Flam train ride and the cruise through the Geiranger Fjord. Our tour guide was fabulous and I loved experiencing Norway with her!
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Seeing our family’s home church in Horendahl. Celebrating Norwegian Independence Day in Oslo on May 17. Briksdal glacier was exciting to see.Neal Zappe
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Norway was beautiful. The scenery was breathtaking. The food was ok. The prices for additional food, drinks, souvenirs was very high, but overall it was great tripLaura Klingenstein
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The best was the countryside and being in a small community. The glaciers were great. All of the tour was great and very memorable. Nancy Thomsen was wonderful and the bus driver Tomas too.
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On our own, we visited Henrik Ibsen's house w/tour and museum. Very Special! Tour should include famous people's homes and/or museum options in the future. Very comfortable accommodations, clean air and water, beautiful sites, excellent bus driver (Steph) and tour guide (Mattias), informative and fun trivia games, special sculpture garden (Oslo), great bus tour, wonderful fjords and mountain vistas and tunnels, welcoming people, etc.
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Beautiful country but spent a lot of time on the bus. Several times it felt like we were retracing our steps. Wish the sights had been planned out and spaced a bit better.
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The tour leader and driver made the tour with their banter and entertainment. The country is absolutely beautiful and as we progressed, one sight was more breath-taking than the previous one.
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To many to count but probably the fiords are like nothing I’ve seen before. STUNNING!Lindy Orn
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We signed with the pink bus from fargo, nd. I feel the pink bus director did absolutely to fill in or instructs for things to do. To much down time and nothing decent was told to us. The flight into Paris was a nite mare..Roylene Jacobs
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The tour...and Norway...was wonderful! The scenery was great! Our Tour Manager was well informed and efficient. The local guides were very good ...especially the one at Vigeland Sculpture Park. He was outstanding! The hotels were in THE BEST locations!! We really enjoyed the Troll Car ride up to the glacier...such fun!
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Claudia Pensa was a terrific tour guide. She provided us with tons of information . What a sweetheart! My most memorable experience was the trip to Vigeland sculpture park. The sculptures depicting life were breathtaking. Our male guide whose name escapes me, described each statue. His presentation was outstanding. I could have listened to him all day.Carol Mohrman
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Fjords ferry was quite good, Oslo’s Yuri walking tour was funny and informative, morning buffet breakfasts were a treat and the history tour of Bergen’s water front was enjoyable.Patrick
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We had a wonderful time. Our tour manager, Claudia, and bus driver, Bjorn, were excellent. Norway is beautiful and Collette definitely chose great places to see and experience. Our favorite day was the day we went to the glacier, but every day was spectacular!
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Not enough words to describe the wonder, beauty of Norway! Accommodations were 5 star, food was amazing! I want to go back and see more!Bryan Morgan
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Tour included areas I wanted to visit. Found it more difficult to get to know fellow travelers than is the case for Road Scholar programs, in part because there was a very large group traveling together who tended to be exclusionary. Would prefer not to have such a large group scheduled into a tour with others
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Fjords, waterfalls’Jeanne Hayslip
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Norway was a wonderful experience. The tour was short but we really covered a sufficient amount of the country. One more night in Oslo in order to visit the Viking museum (which is closed on Mondays) and explore Oslo more would have been better. Only 7-8 nights to fly all that way seemed too brief. Daniel, our guide, was a master at keeping our trip group together. And we were a bit more to handle with our casualties! Daniel could have been a tad more chatty about Norway and its history and culture. There were many times on the bus when the silence could have been filled with tid bits. Otherwise, my first Collette was impressive!Susan Houston
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Well planned with just enough “on your own time”. Hotels and food was great!
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Overall a great trip! Beautiful scenery and nice accommodations. The hotel breakfast and dinner bars were fabulous.
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Truly amazing scenery is everywhere! It felt like home. The people were kind and welcoming. Norwegians are so healthy as shown in their food choices and in their daily exercise. It was inspiring to see their public transportation becoming e-vehicles.
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Good balance between scheduled events and free time. Very comfortable hotels with excellent food options. Favorite parts were the fjord cruises- so scenic & relaxing.Steven Frederickson
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My first time with Colette and I was very impressed. The guide the bus driver, the accommodations everything was wonderful. Our guide, Mattias, Was excellent. I had a great time and next trip we would definitely book through Colette.
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Bergen hotel was not so good, as it was undergoing renovations, but, considering the Constitution Day celebrations going on the 17th, no other hotel may have been available for our group.
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A wonderful tour to a beautiful country!!!! The tour manager and the bus driver were the best! We learned so much about Norway from them. My favorite part was the area around Flam and Loen. It is so beautiful and everything I was expecting plus more!Linda Rauenbuehler
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Especially enjoyed the Briksdal Glacier and Bergen. Also really like the Vigeland Park. Madaleine was the best!Leslie Chalfant
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Poor communication, very poor tour guide, most hotel rooms were sub par. More times than not we had to handle our own luggage. Horrible flight times. No guidance whatsoever. 2 days of long bus rides. No wine at dinner, drink nazi at one hotel. Questioned us very severely in hotel bar that we did not pay for our drinks. Which we had. They were very ugly and made for a long uncomfortable evening. City guides were great. They were the only people we learned anything from .Deborah Campbell
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The guide was not good. I was disappointed in the whole tour.
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This tour was very well paced with both tour experiences and free time built in each day. Norway is a beautiful country worth visiting.Martin Stephan
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An upgraded hotel in Bergen would have been greatly appreciated. The hotel that was used couldn't accomodate a large influx of people with only one elevator.Dale Danklefsen
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Wonderful tour manager made the entire trip memorable! Seeing the fjords and a glacier up close as well as so many beautiful waterfalls was amazing. Norway is breathtakingly gorgeous!
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Great trip but last hotel in Bergen had missing trim in plain view and wasn’t equal to the other hotels especially Hotel Bristo in Oslo. First night/ last night and few other meals meals were average. For such historic places I would thought the meals would be tastier. It would also be nice if the servers engaged you and explained what they are serving first night/last night but again a great trip.
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Lucia a did an amazing job making recommendations and leading us to the best places, all while making everyone feel comfortable and cared for if anything went wrong!
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We got to see so many beautiful places, the food was beyond any expectation i could've had, our tour manager was a delight and having all the transportation arranged was so nice.Carol Reid
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Our guide was very personable and informative. Highly recommended as a top-notch guide!! The tour was well organized.Roxane Hartman
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The beauty and culture of Norway.
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Norway is a beautiful country. Tour guide Koppany Tuba is informative, entertaining & professional . My only complaint was at the Baltic hotel in Oslo. Our room was above a reception hall . The wedding band turned up the sound at 1115 pm - 115 am. Our room jumped. No sleep then. I called the front desk & no answer.. I spoke to the desk at breakfast , with no concern of theirs.
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The reason why this tour was so extraordinary: It was due to the knowledge and personality of the tour manager, Köpi. He was a genial guy who shared his knowledge of the area in an entertaining and informative way. The itinerary of this tour was perfect. The landscape of the Norway countryside was breathtaking. Great tour.
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Great Tour Manager, Fantastic Accomodations, Bus Driver and well orchestrated journey.Elinore Jeffcoat
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Only one hotel (Alexandra in Loen)was good. Bergen hotel was dated and dirty. Tour manager excelled at managing the days, but didn't bother to have us introduce ourselves on the opening night. Questions from people on the bus were often ignored. Need to listen better. There is a lot to see in Oslo. Starting on a Sunday when many restaurants and stores were closed wasn't great. Documents should encourage people to come a day early. More time in Oslo, less time in Bergen would make a better route.
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Our tour guide Kopi was excellent! The views were phenomenal! This was our 8th trip with Collette and we ranked this one our favorite so far! Pretrip had some bumps and I think flights could’ve been better but the trip was everything we’d hoped for. The weather was unusually warm for the area causing our hotel rooms to be extremely warm since there’s no air but I’m not sure how that could be helped.Celese Bullock
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The tour was interrupted on my way to Norway. Colette provided no assistance and has yet to make the situation right. I am fairly sure that when everything goes correctly Colette is in an OK company, but if there are Problems or issues, Colette does not follow through.Denise
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The whole trip was great. The tour manager, bus driver, hotels, food, people on the tour. We had such a fun time. I would take a tour again from Collette.Cheri Holtzworth
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Favorite times was breathing. the fresh aid and watching the water falls.Francis Szczepaniak
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Wonderful tour led by a very fun and informative guide. Beautiful scenery and fabulous hotels with great food., We had a very friendly group which made the trip quite fun.Kris
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So well planned and thought out!Brenda Holman
