Insight > Grand Tour of Scandinavia

Grand Tour of Scandinavia
21 Days starting from $4,725

Countries Visited:
Sweden, Finland, Norway

 

Length: 21 Days
Type: First Class Tour
Category: Scandinavia and Iceland
Operator: Insight
Tour Code: E940
   
 
About This Tour


This tour is well paced with two-night stays in Copenhagen, Rovaniemi, Narvik, Geiranger and Oslo; there are one-night stays in the more northern regions. Magnificent driving days offer frequent stops for refreshments and wonderful photo opportunities.

 
  • What's Included
  • Itinerary
  • Dates & Prices
  • Sightseeing Highlights
  • SPECIALS

Insight's First Class Services

  • Escorted by a professional Tour Director
  • Luxury air-conditioned 40 seat coach with onboard toilet
  • Insight Hotels include all service charges, taxes and porterage
  • Insight Traveler document wallet, map book journal and information pack
  • Complimentary arrival transfer on Day 2 and departure transfer on Day 21

Quality Dining

  • Highlight Dinner on our overnight cruise to Helsinki (HD)
  • 19 Buffet Breakfasts (BB) and 10 three-course table d’hôte Dinners, or Buffets, plus tea or coffee (D)

21 Days ~ Denmark ~ Sweden ~ Finland ~ Norway

Tour Pace
This tour is well paced with two-night stays in Copenhagen, Rovaniemi, Narvik, Geiranger and Oslo; there are one-night stays in the more northern regions. Magnificent driving days offer frequent stops for refreshments and wonderful photo opportunities.

DAY 1 – DEPART USA
Overnight flight to Copenhagen.

DAY 2 – COPENHAGEN AT LEISURE
There are complimentary transfers from Copenhagen Airport to your tour hotel. Enjoy a Welcome Drink and dinner at your hotel, followed by a visit to the Tivoli Gardens.
Hotel: Radisson SAS Scandinavia. (D)

DAY 3 – COPENHAGEN SIGHTSEEING
Go down to the harbour to greet Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid before a Highlight visit takes you inside Christiansborg (the Danish Parliament). See the Rosenborg and Amalienborg Palaces and the Renaissance Stock Exchange. (BB)

DAY 4 – COPENHAGEN – STOCKHOLM
Drive to Elsinore to see Hamlet’s Kronborg Castle before taking a ferry across to Sweden. Drive along Lake Vattern to arrive in Stockholm, which is set on 14 beautiful islands.
Hotel: Scandic Alvik. (BB)

DAY 5 – STOCKHOLM – OVERNIGHT CRUISE
The charms of Sweden's capital are revealed with your local guide. Visit the City Hall’s ‘Gold Room’, the medieval Old Town and see the cathedral. Visit the 17th century Wasa Galleon, one of the greatest attractions of northern Europe, then embark on a Baltic cruise to Finland. On board, enjoy a Highlight Dinner. (BB,HD)

DAY 6 – HELSINKI SIGHTSEEING
Disembark in the heart of Helsinki to visit the ‘Church in the Rock’ and Sibelius Monument. Also see Finlandia Hall, the Russian Orthodox church and the lively market.
Hotel: Radisson SAS Seaside. (BB)

DAY 7 – HELSINKI – KUOPIO
Travel through a land of beautiful lakes and forests before enjoying an ascent of Kuopio Viewing Tower to find out why Finland is called the land of a thousand lakes.
Hotel: Sokos. (BB,D)

DAY 8 – KUOPIO – ROVANIEMI
On towards the Arctic and into Lapland, the home of the Sami people. Stay in Rovaniemi, the modern capital of the region.
Hotel: Sokos Vaakuna. (BB,D)

DAY 9 – ROVANIEMI SIGHTSEEING
Visit Aalvar Aalto’s Lapponia House and the Cathedral. Later, perhaps choose to view the open-air museum and try a traditional Lapp dinner. (BB)

DAY 10 – ROVANIEMI – IVALO
Look out for Santa Claus as you cross the Arctic Circle, receiving a certificate to prove it. On your way to the oldest church in Lapland, you may see herds of reindeer roaming freely. Travel through Europe’s last great wilderness to visit the national park near the gold centre of Tankavaara.
Hotel: Ivalo. (BB,D)

DAY 11 – IVALO – NORTH CAPE
Cross the rolling tundra into Norway where you visit a Lapp folk museum and stop at Karasjok, a centre of Lapp culture. It’s then on through unique scenery to the North Cape. Your hotel is in Honningsvag on Mager Island, from where you will journey at night to the northern most point of Europe in search of the Midnight Sun.
Hotel: Rica Honningsvag. (BB,D)

DAY 12 – WED – NORTH CAPE – ALTA
Return to the mainland, travelling through stony, near-deserted Finnmark to Alta, situated on one of the world’s richest salmon rivers.
Hotel: Rica Alta. (BB,D)

DAY 13 – ALTA – NARVIK
Pass the fjord where the battleship Tirpitz hid in World War Two, before travelling through stunning northern scenery past mountains and fjords to Narvik.
Hotel: Quality Grand Royal. (BB,D)

DAY 14 – NARVIK AT LEISURE
A day has been set aside for you to enjoy at your own pace. Perhaps visit the War Museum, or take a superb mountain train into Sweden for the afternoon? (BB)

DAY 15 – NARVIK – MOSJOEN
Take a ferry across Tysfjord and pass Rago National Park, its fjords cutting deep into the landscape. Bid farewell to the Arctic before reaching Mosjoen, a pleasant town on the Vefsnfjord, which has the oldest octagonal church in Norway.
Hotel: Fru Haugans. (BB,D)

DAY 16 – MOSJOEN – TRONDHEIM
Drive through Namdal to the Laksfoss Falls to see leaping salmon before continuing on to the village of Hell and to Trondheim to see the cathedral.
Hotel: Radisson SAS Royal Garden. (BB)

DAY 17 – TRONDHEIM – GEIRANGER
Cross the Dovre Mountains, which form Norway’s oldest National Park. Arrive at Geirangerfjord to embark on a spectacular Highlight cruise beneath towering cliffs and cascading waterfalls. Your hotel is in a superb setting overlooking the Norwegian Fjord landscape.
Hotel: Union. (BB,D)

DAY 18 – GEIRANGER AT LEISURE
A day of relaxation amid the fjords and mountains, a UNESCO World Heritage area. Consider taking an excursion along the Trolls’ Road. (BB,D)

DAY 19 – GEIRANGER – OSLO
Travel to Lom to see the Norwegian stave church dating back to 1130 before continuing through the countryside of "Peer Gynt", immortalised by Ibsen, to Oyer to see the world’s largest Troll. After stopping in Lillehammer, host of the 1994 Winter Olympics, it’s on to the capital of Oslo.
Hotel: Radisson SAS Scandinavia. (BB)

DAY 20 – OSLO SIGHTSEEING
A panoramic tour takes in the Akershus Fort guarding the harbour and the Royal Palace and includes a visit to the Viking Long Ship Museum. Visit Frogner Park, housing the unique and controversial sculptures by Gustav Vigeland, before the afternoon at leisure. (BB)

DAY 21 – RETURN TO USA
The tour ends with a transfer to Oslo Airport. (BB)


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Hotels
There are modern, well-appointed hotels in the cities, like the Radisson Scandinavia in both the cities of Copenhagen and Oslo, as well as traditional smaller scale hotels in the more remote areas of the north like the Rica Hotel Honningsvag in the North Cape.

Fellow Passengers
This tour particularly attracts the seasoned traveler who wants to journey to Lapland and see the Land of the Midnight Sun, combined with visiting all the Scandinavian capital cities. It also appeals to those with Scandinavian ancestry.

Highlights
The remote and magnificent scenery of the North Cape and that chance to see the Midnight Sun are definite highlights, as are the cruise on the Geiranger Fjord in Norway and the visits to see the Wasa Galleon and the Viking Long Ships Museum.

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Excursions & Sights

  • Evening visit to Tivoli Gardens & see Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid
  • Visit Copenhagen’s Christiansborg and see the Rosenborg & Amalienborg Palaces
  • Visit the Gold Room in Stockholm’s City Hall and see the Royal Palace and Cathedral
  • Visit Helsinki’s ‘Church in the Rock’ & Sibelius Monument and see the Finlandia Hall
  • Ascend the Kuopio Viewing Tower for spectacular views
  • Visit the Cathedral & architect Alvar Aalto’s Lapponia House in Rovaniemi
  • Receive an Arctic Circle certificate & visit Lappland’s oldest church and a Lapp museum
  • Visit Laksfoss Falls and the village of Hell
  • See Lom’s Stave Church See Trondheim’s Cathedral - coronation place of Norway’s Kings
  • Visit Lillehammer, host of the 1994 Winter Olympics
  • See Akershus Castle, Royal Palace & visit the Vigeland sculptures in Oslo’s Frogner Park
  • See Hamlet’s Kronborg Castle
  • Visit Kekkonen National Park
  • Scenic Drives – Peer Gynt Valley, Rago National Park & Norwegian Fjordland

Guided City Tours

  • In-depth sightseeing tours with expert local guides in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Rovaniemi and Oslo.
  • Orientation tour in Trondheim

Insight's First Class Services

  • Escorted by a professional Tour Director
  • Luxury air-conditioned 40 seat coach with onboard toilet
  • Insight Hotels include all service charges, taxes and porterage
  • Insight Traveler document wallet, map book journal and information pack
  • Complimentary arrival transfer on Day 2 and departure transfer on Day 21

Quality Dining

  • Highlight Dinner on our overnight cruise to Helsinki (HD)
  • 19 Buffet Breakfasts (BB) and 10 three-course table d’hôte Dinners, or Buffets, plus tea or coffee (D)

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YOUNG TRAVELLERS SAVE 10% AGED 5-17 YEARS :Travel broadens the mind and enhances those special relationships. Insight offers you the opportunity of

sharing your happy holiday memories with your children or grandchildren. This discount applies to the Land Only portion of your tour. Young Travellers must be under the age of 18 years old on the tour departure date, and MUST be accompanied by an adult (limit of one Young Traveller Discount per room). On all escorted tours, children under 5 years old are NOT accepted. The Young Traveller must be the specified age at the time of travel to be eligible for this discount. This discount cannot be combined with our Groups Discount. Exceptions: 1. Does not apply to additional accommodation, airfares or flight supplements, Easy Pace London & Countryside, Easy Pace London & Paris, Easy Pace London, Paris & Rome, Egypt tours, Israel tours, Jordan tours, the 3 Night Greek Island Cruise & Athens Extension,

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SAVE UP TO $2850 PER PERSON with Insight’s Room Mate Matching service Insight believes travelling solo should not cost you more! That’s why for people travelling alone on an Insight coach tour, we'll match you with someone of the same gender, so you don't have to pay the single room supplement. If we fail to match you, we'll provide a single room at no extra cost. Please note there is a no-smoking policy in all shared rooms. Exceptions: 1. Does not apply to additional accommodation, airfares or flight supplements, Easy Pace London & Countryside, Easy Pace London & Paris, Easy Pace London, Paris & Rome, Egypt tours, Israel tours, Jordan tours, the 3 Night Greek Island Cruise & Athens Extension, and Greek tours which include a Mediterranean cruise. 2. Does not apply to tours with River Cruises. 3. Does not apply to Irish Elegance.

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SAVE 5% OFF YOUR NEXT TOUR: Most first-time travellers go on vacation with Insight again and again. In recognition of our loyal customers, Insight now extends to all clients automatic membership into our Premier Plus Club, as well as a 5% Discount off the Land portion of their next Insight trip. Insight’s Premier Plus Club & 5% Discount is not available retroactively. Only one voucher is available per person, per tour, per year and only one voucher can be redeemed against each further tour

booking. This discount cannot be combined with our Groups Discount.  Exceptions: 1. Does not apply to additional accommodation, airfares or flight supplements, Easy Pace London & Countryside, Easy Pace London & Paris, Easy Pace London, Paris & Rome, Egypt tours, Israel tours, Jordan tours, the 3 Night Greek Island Cruise & Athens Extension, and Greek tours which include a Mediterranean cruise.

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