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The best train tours in Norway

43 hotel-based trips in Norway had enough verified data to score; hostel and self-guided rail-pass trips are not ranked here. The ranking below is fully mechanical; here is exactly how it works:

  • Eligibility: only hotel-based tours are ranked. Trips built around hostels or self-arranged accommodation are left out, since these guides recommend hotel-inclusive tours for the general traveller.
  • Rail share (35%): the percent of the trip actually on trains, from the itinerary.
  • Value (20%): price per day against the other hotel-based trips on this page (cheaper per day scores higher).
  • Data completeness (25%): full day-by-day itinerary, imagery, inclusions, and verified price.
  • Departure breadth (20%): how many months the operator publishes departures for.
  1. 179.6

    Nine-day rail journey from Tromso to Stockholm through Swedish Arctic

    Rail share
    75
    Value
    42
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    100

    9 days · from $3,268 ($363/day)

  2. Seven-day self-guided rail journey from Trondheim to Bodø on the Nordland Railway.

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    100
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    7 days · from $1,000 ($143/day)

  3. London to Bodø on rail and ferry, crossing four countries northward.

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    98
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    11 days · from $1,942 ($177/day)

  4. Rail journey from London through four Scandinavian countries to Bergen

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    77
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    12 days · from $3,129 ($261/day)

  5. Escorted 15-day rail journey through five countries to the Arctic Circle and back.

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    60
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    13

    15 days · from $4,623 ($308/day)

  6. 6
    Oslo to the Aurora

    Marvellous Escapes

    69.2

    Eight-day Oslo to Bodø rail journey with sleeper trains and Northern Lights hunting

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    72
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    8 days · from $2,143 ($268/day)

  7. 768.2

    London to Bergen by rail through six cities, eleven days.

    Rail share
    73
    Value
    88
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    11 days · from $2,545 ($231/day)

  8. 867.8

    Eight-day Norwegian winter rail tour: Bergen, fjords, Oslo with two cruises

    Rail share
    65
    Value
    63
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    38

    8 days · from $2,344 ($293/day)

  9. 967.5

    Self-guided rail trip from Oslo to Trondheim and Bodo, aurora hunting

    Rail share
    67
    Value
    95
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    9 days · from $1,639 ($182/day)

  10. Eight-day Norway escorted tour on the Bergen and Flåm railways, Oslo and Bergen

    Rail share
    45
    Value
    35
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    88

    8 days · from $3,081 ($385/day)