Welcome dinner location
Does anyone know where the Welcome dinner is on this tour that begins in Bergen? Is it in either of the start hotels and if so, which one?
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Does anyone know where the Welcome dinner is on this tour that begins in Bergen? Is it in either of the start hotels and if so, which one?
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British - Depending on the number of travelers, it is possible that neither hotel can accommodate everyone. The dinners might take place at each hotel. Just my guess.
Thanks. When we took the last cruise like this which was a full Tauck group, the dinner was at the hotel we were staying in and the other half of the group were bussed back to the hotel and basically left before the end of the entertainment which was really good compared to the meal. So we were hoping the same happened for us again.
Again, I’m just guessing based on my knowledge of the area. I always stay in small, family run inns when there and don’t think the larger hotels have a banquet room for 200+ guests. I can certainly be wrong. Hopefully someone with recent experience of this tour will respond.
I think the other tour you referenced was the Great Lakes tour. I still have nightmares!
😀. I guess you know the area so well, it’s my first time to Scandinavia, my husband visited several times as a teenager with his parents. His dad used to travel to Finland on business and of course he has more Viking blood than I do.
We received an email from one of the tour directors this week with a caution that the hotels are more basic, which won’t bother us but I guess some people will be disappointed. I note our hotel is in a great location which is more important and it does have a pool which is a bonus for me.
I know Denmark well; I’m just a tourist in other Scandinavian cities. It’s a shame you won’t experience Denmark. Most tours focus on København and ignore the rest of the country…another shame.
The hotels are fine. They are more functional than glitzy.
Enjoy your trip.
Just returned from the tour starting in Bergen this year. Both groups were bused to a funicular that took us to the top of the largest of the seven mountains (more like hills) surrounding Bergen. The meal was excellent. The final dinner in Olso included both groups at the The Grand in the room where the Nobel Prize banquet is held. That meal was also excellent. Each group had a champagne reception in their own hotel. The Bristol is a short walk from the Grand.
We have found that many welcome and farewell dinners on recent tours we took were poor. This was a welcome surprise.
We stayed at the Norge which had a pool but it required a payment of $20 to use it. It was down two long, steep sets of stairs, no elevator. The hotels we stayed at were minimalist scandinavian design. The breakfast at the Norge was cafeteria quality. We had an early flight home so The Grand made lovely to go breakfast bags.
The tour leaving from Begen has only one night in Oslo. We wished we had booked more time there. Some of the sites we visited were rushed.
Bucketlist, your information is greatly appreciated!
We are staying at the Norge and I was hoping to swim there, but maybe not. We were on Le Bellot last year on a different tour and the pool was only about two thirds filled, we had one swim, but it didn’t even look that clean. It was disappointing as I’ve swam in the Ponant ships pools before and it has been very pleasant especially on the Iceland tour where there was so much time on the ship.
We are staying two extra nights in Oslo . When we saw that two museums were visited before lunch, we were concerned they would be rushed. My husband particularly wanted to be sure he saw the Kontiki museum in detail, he tells me he made a scale model of the famous raft when he was a child, yep, just like him! So we thought we might want to make a return visit later.
Looks like rain in Bergen while we are there. Thank you again.