Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Websites
Lonely Planet (
www.lonelyplanet.com/norway/bergen-and-the-western-fjords
)
Plan-
ning advice, author recommendations, traveller reviews and insider tips.
Getting There & Away
Air
Bergen airport
Offline map
(
67 03 15 55)
is at Flesland, about 19km southwest of
the centre. Apart from international airlines (
Click here
), there are the following domestic
options:
Norwegian (
www.norwegian.com
)
Flights to Oslo and Tromsø.
SAS (
www.sas.no
)
Oslo and Stavanger.
Widerøe (
www.wideroe.no
)
Tromsø, Bodø and other northern destinations.
Boat
The Hurtigruten coastal ferry leaves from the Hurtigruteterminalen (
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), south-
west of the centre, at 8pm daily from mid-April to mid-September, and from 10.30pm the
rest of the year. See
Click here
for details.
International ferries
to/fromBergendockatSkoltegrunnskaien(
Offline map
),northwest
of the Rosenkrantz tower. See
Click here
for details on international sailings.
For more information on fjord cruises from Bergen, see the boxed text on
Click here
. The
following operators offer express boat services:
Fjord1 ( 55 90 70 70;
www.fjord1.no
;
Strandkaiterminal)
In addition to its tours,
Fjord1 offers at least one daily ferry from Bergen to Sogndal (Nkr570; five hours), with
some services going on to Flåm (Nkr665).
Flaggruten ( 53 40 91 20;
www.flaggruten.no
; Strandkaiterminal)
Twice-daily ser-
vices from Sunday to Friday to Haugesund (one-way/return Nkr510/625) and Stavanger
(Nkr750/950), with just one on Saturdays.
Rødne Fjord Cruise ( 51 89 52 70;
www.rodne.no
; May-Aug)
Summer express
boats from Bergen to Rosendal (adult/child one-way Nkr310/155, return Nkr470/235)
twice daily from Monday to Friday and once on Saturday and Sunday. It leaves just north-
west of Strandkaiterminal.
