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Instead of booking an American Airlines $650 ticket yesterday to Portugal or Spain, I was writing up the deal for Loyalty Traveler blog, while at the same time planning my trip to fly into Spain or Portugal and fly back to California from Oslo, Norway on American Airlines in July. This was not a ten…
2016 is a great year to take advantage of lower prices for travel in Scandinavia, Norway and Sweden specifically. The combination of low cost flights to Scandinavia with Norwegian Airlines and WOW Airlines over the past two years, combined with the more favorable exchange rate of the U.S. Dollar and British Pound to Norwegian Krone…
United Airlines has some low fares to Oslo and Bergen, Norway for departures from late March through May. There are several Scandinavia airport destinations in the low $600s with Star Alliance carriers like: Stockholm, Sweden ARN ($616 – Swiss) Gothenburg, Sweden GOT ($614 – Lufthansa) Copenhagen, Denmark CPH ($593 Air Canada/$621 United) Billund, Denmark BLL…
Funny how divergent events from life come together in memory during travel. In the pre-dawn hour before sunrise, laying in bed in Clermont-Ferrand, France, sleepy and in need of more sleep, my mind drifted to my first French language teacher in 8th grade. In junior high and high school French classes I cringed when teachers…
Clarion Bergen Airport was one of the nicest airport hotels I have stayed in and one of the best Nordic Choice Hotels rooms I’ve seen. I changed my reservation this week from a downtown Bergen hotel to the airport after visiting the Clarion hotel a couple of weeks ago while waiting for a flight out…
Telling travelers and flight crew yesterday that I was returning to San Francisco, California from Arctic Norway evoked an inquisitive response from people interested in a place where relatively few Americans have traveled. “Did you see the northern lights?” – That is more of a late fall and winter months phenomenon. “Was it gorgeous?” –…
About an hour to go before I board my next transatlantic flight to Chicago. Back in the London LHR British Airways lounge, which looks to be my home base for another 16 hours over the next two weeks as I transit through LHR a couple more times. Oneworld lounge access on international travel is the…
Clarion Collection Hotel Arcticus is one of two Nordic Choice Hotels in Arctic Norway outside of Tromso, where there are five Nordic Choice Hotels. Quality Hotel Grand Royal Narvik is the other hotel. Harstad and Narvik are accessed via Evenes Airport, midway between the two towns. Arctic Norway is the portion of the country above…
Clarion Collection Hotel No 13, ‘number 13’ is centrally located in downtown Bergen on the Torgallmenningen, a pedestrian mall. There are seven Nordic Choice Hotels in Bergen, Norway, including one connected to the airport and one near the airport about ten miles out of city center. Clarion Collection No 13 is the lowest priced reward…
First impressions of northern Norway is sunlight seems to color the landscape differently here within the Arctic Circle at 68.8° N in Harstad, Norway. This rainbow is more of a rain-ray with a single shaft of bright light dropping down from a mostly clear sky. Southern Norway had ten inches of rain in the past…
