Bergen → Stavanger → Oslo
Norway
Fjord city, food festival, and a capital that swims in its own harbour.
- Next departure
- Jun 20 – 28, 2027
- Length
- 9 days · 8 nights
- Group
- Explore independently, together
- From
- $1,755per person
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Base trip includes
The important stuff is handled.
Add only what you want.
8 nights in well-located hotels
Three in Bergen, three in Stavanger, two in Oslo, at the level you choose. Breakfast at every tier except the cheapest.
The coastal bus to Stavanger
Kystbussen down the E39 from city centre to city centre, about four and a half hours, with two fjord crossings by ferry included in the fare. It is a scenic route sold as a bus.
The Sørlandsbanen to Oslo
Eight hours east across the mountains and down to the capital. Reserved seats. The best-value sightseeing in Norway and the reason we do not fly this leg.
Your Guide in the app
Where you are staying, when the bus leaves, what is worth walking to, and who else from the group is doing what.
Your group
Group chat and the roster open as soon as your booking is confirmed.
Trip support
A private line to Guideless in the app, before and during the trip.
Photos from Norway
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Nine days down the west coast: three nights in Bergen under the seven mountains, the coastal bus south for Gladmat in Stavanger, then the long train east to Oslo. Your trip includes hotels, the coastal bus and the train; we arrange each reservation after you book. What you do with the daylight is yours — and in late June there is a great deal of it.
Bergen first, because arriving in Norway should look like the postcard: wooden wharf houses, a funicular up Fløyen, fish at the market. Then the coastal bus south on the Wednesday Gladmat opens, for three days of Scandinavia's best food festival in a town small enough to walk. Then the Sørlandsbanen east to Oslo, eight hours of it, which is not a transfer so much as the best-value sightseeing in the country. Two nights in Oslo to swim off the opera house and see the Munch.
One trip, three completely different Norways, and no one marching you between them. Midsummer here means light until midnight — the day is as long as you want to make it.
Comes with every booking
The Guideless app runs the trip. You enjoy it.
- Your Route
- Every day of this trip, with hotels, trains and the free time in between.
- Your Group
- Meet the others if you want to. Suggest a plan and see who is in.
- Extras
- Add a boat day or a tasting from the app. Nothing is bundled in.
- Support
- Message us from the app. We can already see your itinerary.
Two ways to do this
One itinerary, or your trip.
Traditional group tour
- Fixed itinerary, decided for you
- Mandatory activities and group meals
- Large groups and a guide everywhere you go
- One price for the whole thing
Guideless
- Start with the essentials: hotels, trains, the app
- Choose your accommodation tier and the experiences you want
- Your days are yours; the itinerary is a plan, not a schedule
- Add more later, from your account or the app
- Meet the group when you want to, not because you have to
Where you stay
Pick your tier.
What each price band buys you: the area, how far it is, and what is in the price. You see the actual properties when you build the trip. The same four tiers apply to add-ons.
- Explorer
- Best price. More basic accommodation. Maximum value.
- Classic
- The standard Guideless experience.
- Premium
- Better rooms and better locations.
- Elite
- Luxury. The best available.
ExplorerBergen centre · Stavanger centre · central Oslo
Simple, and central
The cheapest bed that is still a real hotel.
Included
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ClassicBergen harbour · Stavanger harbour · central Oslo
The good one
A proper hotel, breakfast, and the harbour at the door.
+$645per person
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PremiumBergen waterfront · Stavanger harbour · central Oslo
Better rooms, better views
Better hotels, and the window is worth something.
+$780per person
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EliteBergen old centre · Stavanger harbour · central Oslo
The best in each city
The best available.
+$3,230per person
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- Included
Your own room is the default. Two travelers can share one room if they prefer. Two per room, never more.
Free to look. A temporary seat hold starts when you begin secure payment; your booking is confirmed after payment succeeds.
Also optional
Add on what you like.
Everything here is optional, paid only if you choose it, and visible to the group so you can see who else is in.
Photo of the venue · The Fløibanen on its way up to FløyenPhoto: Gerd Fahrenhorst, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized) Ticket
Fløyen funicular
$21per person
- When
- Mon 21 Jun · Day 2
Eight minutes from the middle of Bergen to the top of the hill it sits under, and the view that explains the city. Walk back down through the woods if it is dry.
Photo of the venue · Preikestolen above the LysefjordPhoto: rheins, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized) Experience
Preikestolen, with the bus out and back
$59per person
- When
- Fri 25 Jun · Day 6
The Pulpit Rock: a reserved seat on the express bus from Stavanger, then about four hours on foot there and back, for a flat cliff six hundred metres above the Lysefjord. The walking is real and the trail is not a stroll; the bus is the part worth booking, because the last one back does not wait.
Experience
Flor & Fjære
$210per person
- When
- Thu 24 Jun · Day 5
A subtropical garden on a bare island in the Ryfylke fjord, which should not be possible this far north and is. Twenty minutes by boat from Bekhuskaien, a tour of the garden, then dinner in the glasshouse, and back in Stavanger about five hours after you left.
Photo of the venue · Oslo Badstuforening's floating saunas in Bjørvika Experience
Sauna and swim on the fjord
$27per person
- When
- Sun 27 Jun · Day 8
A floating sauna moored off the opera house, and the fjord to get into between rounds. Sessions are shared and they do sell out on a good evening, which is the only reason this is worth booking rather than turning up for.
ElitePhoto of the area · The Lysefjord from the water, not the view from the helicopterPhoto: Dimitri Neyt, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Experience
Helicopter over the Lysefjord
$2,859for your group1 left
- When
- Thu 24 Jun · Day 5
Thirty minutes out of Sola, up the Lysefjord and over Preikestolen, which from the air is a flat grey tongue a very long way above the water. The people on top of it are the dots. Up to five of you, for one price. Weather is the only thing that cancels this, and it cancels it outright rather than flying it badly.
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Day by day.
Times are local. Anything marked Optional is exactly that. The dashed blocks are free time — on purpose.
Day 1Bergen Arrive in Bergen
Land, check in, and walk the harbour while it is still light — which in late June is until nearly midnight.
- Flight:
Arrive at Bergen Flesland (BGO)
The Bybanen light rail runs from the airport terminal into central Bergen in about forty-five minutes. Check the Skyss journey planner for your travel date.
Bergen Flesland Airport
- Check-in:
Check in
Your hotel, at the tier you chose.
Your hotel
- Live Moment:
First evening on Bryggen
An optional meet-up on the old wharf. It stays light; nobody is in a hurry.
Bryggen, Bergen
- Flight:
Day 2Bergen Bergen, from above
The funicular up Fløyen is eight minutes and the view explains the city. Walk down through the woods if the weather holds.
- Experience: Add-on
Fløyen funicular
Eight minutes up, and the whole city and its fjord underneath you. Walk back down through the woods if it is dry.
Fløibanen, Bergen
- Experience:
Day 3Bergen A free day on the fjord
Bryggen, the fish market, a boat out into the fjord, or the cable car up Ulriken. Yours entirely.
- Free time:
Bergen, your way
Bryggen and the fish market, a fjord boat, or the Ulriken cable car. The group scatters and reconvenes; that is the arrangement.
- Free time:
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Day 4Stavanger South to Stavanger · Gladmat opens
The coastal bus down the E39, two ferries in the fare, and the festival starting on the harbour when you arrive.
- Transfer:
Kystbussen to Stavanger
City centre to city centre down the E39, about four and a half hours, with the Halhjem–Sandvikvåg and Arsvågen–Mortavika ferry crossings included in the fare. Included in your trip.
Bergen bus station
- Experience:
Gladmat opens
The festival runs on the harbour, 23 to 26 June. Entry is free and you pay for what you eat.
Vågen, Stavanger
- Transfer:
Day 5Stavanger Gladmat
A whole day of it. The old town is five minutes from the stalls when you need a quiet street.
- Free time:
A full day of Gladmat
Two hundred producers on a working harbour. Gamle Stavanger, the white-timber old town, is five minutes away when you want a quiet street.
Vågen, Stavanger
- Free time:
Day 6Stavanger Preikestolen, or more festival
The Pulpit Rock is a four-hour round trip and one of the great walks in Norway. Or stay on the harbour. Both are correct.
- Experience: Add-on
Preikestolen
The Pulpit Rock: a boat or bus out, then about four hours on foot there and back, for a flat cliff six hundred metres above the Lysefjord.
Preikestolen
- Experience:
Day 7Oslo The long train east
On Gladmat's last day the Sørlandsbanen leaves. Eight hours across the mountains with a reserved seat and a window.
- Train:
Sørlandsbanen, Stavanger → Oslo
About eight hours, reserved seats, across the mountains and down the southern coast. Included in your trip.
Stavanger station
- Train:
Day 8Oslo Oslo
Swim off the opera house, sauna on the fjord, and the Munch museum directly above both.
- Experience: Add-on
Sauna and swim on the fjord
Floating saunas moored off the opera house, and the fjord to jump into between rounds.
Bjørvika, Oslo
- Free time:
Oslo, your way
The Munch, the Astrup Fearnley, the Opera roof you are allowed to walk on, or the forest at the end of the metro line.
- Experience:
Day 9Oslo Home
Check out by eleven. The airport express runs every ten minutes and takes twenty.
- Check-out:
Check out
By 11:00. The Flytoget airport express takes twenty minutes and runs every ten.
Your hotel
- Check-out:
Dates & prices.
Prices are per traveler in your own room and include everything under “Guideless handles”. Reserve with a deposit; the balance is due before departure.
Every price on this trip, updated 18 October 2026
- Open
Jun 20 – 28, 2027
$600 deposit
$1,755
from, per traveler
Who handles what.
The one thing every traveler should know before booking.
Guideless handles
8 nights in well-located hotels
Three in Bergen, three in Stavanger, two in Oslo, at the level you choose. Breakfast at every tier except the cheapest.
The coastal bus to Stavanger
Kystbussen down the E39 from city centre to city centre, about four and a half hours, with two fjord crossings by ferry included in the fare. It is a scenic route sold as a bus.
The Sørlandsbanen to Oslo
Eight hours east across the mountains and down to the capital. Reserved seats. The best-value sightseeing in Norway and the reason we do not fly this leg.
Your Guide in the app
Where you are staying, when the bus leaves, what is worth walking to, and who else from the group is doing what.
You book
Flights
You book your own into Bergen and out of Oslo. Both are well served from the UK and the US east coast.
Food and drink
Norway is expensive and we would rather say so than bury it. Budget more than you would for Europe.
Excursions
Preikestolen, the Fløyen funicular, Flor & Fjære, the Oslo sauna and the Lysefjord helicopter are optional extras with their own prices; add them when you book or later. Ulriken is yours to climb, or ride up, on your own.
Travel insurance
Strongly recommended, and yours to arrange. Our cancellation policy refunds what we control; insurance covers your flights, your health and everything you booked yourself.
Before you book.
What everyone on this trip has to be able to do. Check these now, not in May.
Ages 8 and up, with a parent or guardian
The person booking must be 18 or over. Everyone else must be at least 8 on the departure date, and anyone under 18 travels with a parent or legal guardian named on the same booking for the whole trip; each adult can bring up to two children. Some extras show their own minimum age. We check dates of birth when you book. If you give us a false date of birth, you lose your deposit and the booking is cancelled without refund.
The company behind your trip.
From the founder
Guideless comes from many miles in Europe and the same observation every time: nobody wanted a guide, and everybody wanted the annoying parts handled. So we book the hotels and the trains, then get out of the way.
Nobody from Guideless travels with the group. There is no guide and no substitute for one: the company books the trip, the app carries it, and you can request support when you need help. Someone may be on a departure with a camera, checking how it actually went. That is the extent of it, by design.
Kyle CannonFounder · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Questions about this trip.
What is Gladmat?
Norway's biggest food festival, held on Stavanger's harbour every June: 23 to 26 June in 2027, Wednesday to Saturday. Entry is free; you pay for what you eat. You arrive on the coastal bus for the opening afternoon and have Thursday and Friday there in full. The train east leaves on Saturday morning, the festival's last day.
Eight hours on a train?
Yes, and it is the point rather than the price of admission. The Sørlandsbanen crosses the mountains and runs down the south coast; people take it as an excursion in its own right. We do not sell flights on this trip, so if you would rather fly that leg, the flight is yours to book.
How much daylight is there in late June?
Effectively all of it. Bergen gets about nineteen hours and it never gets properly dark. Plan for long evenings and bring something for your eyes at night.
How expensive is Norway really?
More than you expect. A beer runs about NOK 120 (around $12), a sit-down dinner NOK 500 (around $50) upwards. The hotels and the travel are in your price; the food is not, and pretending otherwise would be the wrong kind of surprise.
Do I need to be fit?
Not for the trip itself — it is three cities, a bus and a train. The optional hikes are another matter: Preikestolen is four hours of real walking and Ulriken is a climb unless you take the cable car.
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