Useful information

1. WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE : See description and price for each tour
Tours without guide: The price includes a trail description and map of each tour/area. The trail description cannot be ordered separately.
Tours with and without guide: Included is 1 set of maps per 2 people. If you want your own set, you can pay NOK 50 - 150.

2. ACCOMMODATION
Most of the hiking trips go through areas with limit number of accommodation facilities.This means there will be a variation in the standard of the rooms/apartments. Mostly you stay in good hotels with own bathroom/WC, but some of the lodgings have joint bathrooms/ showers/toilets in the corridor or basement. Prices for accommodation are based on the following: double rooms or apartments (min. 2 persons), made beds and towels.

3. MEALS
The prices includes full board, i.e. dinner or supper every evening, breakfast every morning, and "make-your-own" lunch pack and filling of your thermos every day (bring your own thermos). NB! Some tours do not include dinner every day – see description for each tour.

4. TRANSPORT
Each tour description specifies whether transport is included or not. If you are taking your own car, please contact us for information about parking etc. The hiking trips “Peer Gynts Kingdom” and “Hiking in Rondane” have prices with and without transport.

5. LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY
The hiking trips vary in level of difficulty. Some tours involve long day-trips, while others are shorter. See each trip, day-by-day programme. The day trips are not very long, the the difference in altitude can make them hard. Hiking trips in Eastern parts of Norway are usually easier (not so steep) than in Western and Northern parts, which are more hilly.

6. PERIOD
See each trip

7. WEATHER CONDITIONS
It’s often more stable weather in the Eastern part of Norway than in the Western and Northern parts. Temperatures in Norway are usually around +10 - +25, nice weather for hiking. However please note that the weather can also be very unstable and change quickly from warm, wonderful summer weather to cold wind and rain. So pack responsibly and bring a change of warm clothes. If the weather is too bad to continue to the next hotel, and you decide still to go on by yourself, you must cover the extra cost yourself.

8. PAYMENT
The invoice must be paid at least 6 weeks prior to the first travel day.
For trips with tour guide: we only send you ref.no for traintickets (if you have booked tickets through us), equipment list and other necessary information. You will receive map from the tour guide at the first meeting.
For individual tour (without guide) you will receive ref.no for train tickets (if you have booked through us), hotelvouchers, maps, tour descriptions and equipmentlist will be sent to you as soon as we have received full payment.

9.CANCELLATION
The traveller can cancel the tour before its commencement according to the following rules: By cancelling more than 30 days before beginning of the tour we keep a fee of NOK 500 per person. Cancelling between 30 and 15 days before the tour begins, a fee of NOK 500 per person as well as the
deposit of NOK 500 will not be refunded. By cancelling between 15 and 4 days before the start of the tour 50% of the total price is refunded.
By cancelling less then 3 days before ste start of the tour or if the customer does not show up, he/ she has to pay the full amount (100%). We recommend that you check whether there is a possibility to purchase cancellation insurance (in case of illness) with your insurance company.
You can book the trips directly to our office by fax, mail or phone or contact your travel agent.

10. GROUP TOURS
We tailor-make trips for groups, as well as tours connected with other activities or cultural events.

11. TRAVEL TERMS
These travel terms are based on an agreement between The Norwegian Travel Trade Association and The Norwegian Consumer Ombudsmann as of August 1995. EU's Directive on package trips also applies to Norway from 1 January 1996. We reserve the right to make changes in terms which may be effected by new EU-directives on package trips.
Norske Bygdeopplevelser as is not responsible for typographical errors in the progamme or any changes in the terms or prices due to changes in exchange rates, taxes or fees that may come about after having written this information.Norske Bygdeopplevelser as is a member of The Travel Guarantee Fund (Reisegarantifondet).

WE WELCOME YOU TO NORWAY AND AN UNFORGETTABLE VACATION!