Destination: Norway

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Money & Costs

Norway is expensive. You’ll pay for everything from coffee refills to crossing bridges and using tunnels, from visiting churches to answering nature’s call in public toilets.

If you stay in camping grounds (or, even better, camp in the open air – see p000) and prepare your own meals, you could squeeze by on around Nkr200 to Nkr220 per person per day. Staying in hostels that include breakfast (or eating breakfast at a bakery), having lunch at an inexpensive restaurant and picking up supermarket items for dinner, you can probably manage on Nkr350 per day.

Staying at a hotel that includes a buffet breakfast, eating a light lunch and an evening meal at a moderately priced restaurant, you can expect to spend at least Nkr600 per person per day if you’re doubling up and Nkr750 if you’re travelling alone. Once you factor in transport (a rail pass significantly reduces costs but rail lines don’t extend north beyond Bodø), entertainment (concert and cinema tickets usually start from Nkr50, but can be Nkr150) and alcohol (nightclub cover charges start from Nkr70), you’ll find yourself struggling to keep within a Nkr1000 daily limit.

If you rent a car, Nkr1500 is a more likely minimum.

HOW MUCH?

Cup of coffee with pastry: Nkr50
Adult entry to museum: Nkr40 to Nkr75
Oslo–Bergen railway one-way: Nkr670
Norway-in-a-Nutshell 24-hour tour: Nkr1735
One-day car rental: from Nkr440
Litre of petrol: Nkr9.50 to Nkr10.75
Litre of bottled water: Nkr8
Bottle of beer: Nkr15
Souvenir T-shirt: Nkr99
Street snack – hot dog: Nkr15

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