Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Most (but not all) trains have carriages with space for wheelchair users and many public
buildings have wheelchair-accessible toilets.
Organisations & Tours
Access-able Travel Source
( www.access-able.com )
US information portal with 25 listings for Norway.
TOURIST INFORMATION
Accessible Travel & Leisure
( 01452-729739; www.accessibletravel.co.uk ; Avionics House, Newhaven Rd, Quedgeley,
Gloucester GL2 2SN, UK)
Claims to be the biggest UK travel agent dealing with travel for those with disabilities; en-
courages independent travel.
TOURIST INFORMATION
Norwegian Association for the Disabled
(Norges Handikapforbund; GOOGLE MAP ;
TOURIST INFORMATION
24 10 24 00; www.nhf.no ; Schweigaards gate
12, Grønland, Oslo)
For information on disabled travel and sites of special interest to disabled travellers in
Norway.
Society for Accessible Travel & Hospitality
( GOOGLE MAP ;
TOURIST INFORMATION
212-447 7284; www.sath.org ; 347 Fifth Ave, Ste 605, New York, NY
10016, USA)
Provides advice on how to travel with a wheelchair, kidney disease, sight impairment or
deafness.
Visas
Norway is one of 26 member countries of the Schengen Convention, under which 22 EU
countries (all but Bulgaria, Cyprus, Ireland, Romania and the UK) plus Iceland, Norway,
Liechtenstein and Switzerland have abolished checks at common borders. The process to-
wards integrating Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania has slowed but they may join sometime in
the not-too-distant future.
The visa situation for entering Norway is as follows:
Citizens of Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden No visa or passport required.
Citizens or residents of other EU & Schengen countries No visa required.
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