If you’re keen to see the Northern Lights in the Arctic region in Norway, boost your chances with this viewing tour from Tromsø. Traveling by coach, swap the electric lights of the city for the dark, surrounding wilderness, and head for one of four base stations specially chosen on the day as the best potential viewing location. Stargaze from beside a crackling campfire or from a cozy hut or tepee-style 'lavvo' tent, and with luck, you’ll catch a display to remember forever. Enjoy hot drinks and snacks, and an included delicious hot meal, like local-prepared reindeer stew or fish soup.
Posted By : F4474PKsilviaa
SHAMEFUL to say the least! EVERYTHING! Snowstorm day, already expected for several days. We ask (2 days before) to be able to move or cancel the tour, given the adverse weather conditions expected for that evening. They inform us that it is not possible and that the weather changes suddenly in their country; therefore there will certainly be the possibility of seeing the Northern Lights. We get on the minibus despite the real snowstorm that arrived on time on the day of the excursion. We wander for hours without hope between motorway service stations and stops in the various rest areas, always with the hope of being able to see something... but, in addition to having seen nothing and having wandered aimlessly in vain, the dinner included in the ticket of 170 is not offered €.00 (shameful), for which the guide apologized by giving us a sachet of freeze-dried soup once we returned to the hotel. During the entire tour we were only offered a glass of washed out chocolate (undrinkable), and two biscuits (these I must say were quite good). Moral of the story: we spent €170.00 wandering around aimlessly, in the cold, even skipping dinner, returning so late that not even a street kiosk was open. Therefore > to bed without dinner. Scandalous. I strongly advise against this tour operator which is based at the Radisson Blue hotel in Tromso.
SHAMEFUL to say the least! EVERYTHING! Snowstorm day, already expected for several days. We ask (2 days before) to be able to move or cancel the tour, given the adverse weather conditions expected for that evening. They inform us that it is not possible and that the weather changes suddenly in their country; therefore there will certainly be the possibility of seeing the Northern Lights. We get on the minibus despite the real snowstorm that arrived on time on the day of the excursion. We wander for hours without hope between motorway service stations and stops in the various rest areas, always with the hope of being able to see something... but, in addition to having seen nothing and having wandered aimlessly in vain, the dinner included in the ticket of 170 is not offered €.00 (shameful), for which the guide apologized by giving us a sachet of freeze-dried soup once we returned to the hotel. During the entire tour we were only offered a glass of washed out chocolate (undrinkable), and two biscuits (these I must say were quite good). Moral of the story: we spent €170.00 wandering around aimlessly, in the cold, even skipping dinner, returning so late that not even a street kiosk was open. Therefore > to bed without dinner. Scandalous. I strongly advise against this tour operator which is based at the Radisson Blue hotel in Tromso.
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Posted On : 2024-03-24 21:55:27 
Posted By : AirdocO2
Excellent tour. Well organised, friendly and informative. Weather conditions were not great but with persistence and guidance from Enrico we saw the lights and took some photographs. The additional major plus factor was the camp with inside fires and hot food to warm up. Highly recommended.
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Posted On : 2024-03-23 16:27:43
Posted By : 777haifaa
Worst company i delt with with zero customer satisfaction and they only care about the money. I had booked two trips on the same day with the promise that the 1st trip finishes by 5 or 6. Hence the 2nd trip was a private tour for the aurora hunt and starts by 7:30 pm. We finished the first trip and returned to tromso by 6:40 as we were late by best arctic and one meber from my group got really sick. Henc, i went online to search for an emergency number and couldnt find any. The next day i went to the office and told best arctic about the situation, and without any hesitation or consideration they told us to contact the ensurance for a refund. They didnt offer any reschedule nor refund; noting thay we paid 19,000 NOK. When I told them that we couldnt find an emergency number; they said you should call the land line. The private tour for aurora hunt was made just one day prioir and the cancelation policy gave us 48 hours gap; this made us fall in a gray area due to short term arrangment. To our surprise we were not compensated nor satisfied and we paid a fortune for this trip. My advice dont go for big names when organizng your trips as we were told that best arcyic were the best and in reality and based on our experience they were lower than expected. They only care about money.
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Posted On : 2024-03-07 01:08:23
Posted By : davidtZ9375ZM
Well organised, professional, and plenty of info on the coach. The weather conditions for the trip to Sommarøy where not encouraging but Kinga said keep the faith and pray, miracles can happen! After going thru a blizzard for 20 mins we arrived at camp. Lovely setting over looking the water but cloudy. After an hour there was a few clear patch’s and false alarms. Time to go inside the hut and warm up with a choice of hot drinks or soup. Within in 10 minutes the shout goes up its visible with the naked eye. Screams of joy cameras out and a good show. Worth the wait, just pray !
Great driver, very safe on dicy roads. Guides helped with camera settings and loan of tripod
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Posted On : 2024-01-24 13:10:41
Posted By : Janine_C
Great experience to tick off bucket list of seeing the Northern Lights. The guides helped us in viewing and photographing. Amazing!
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Posted On : 2024-01-06 04:27:16 
Posted By : Damien_S
Our guides, Paolo and Jeanne, were nice and provided a lot of interesting insights about Tromso and the Northern Light phenomenon. We had the chance to see Northern Lights, this was a good day with good solar intensity. Paolo took nice pictures and they can be downloaded for free from the site...if you choose the liw resolution pictures ( 300K). If you want high resolution pictures, it is 300 NOK per picture...it isnot fair
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Posted On : 2024-01-03 08:56:12
Posted By : saurabh_o
The guide was very helpful and enthusiastic. We saw the full Aurora eventually after some uncertainty. This was the best part.
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Posted On : 2023-12-29 05:40:53
Posted By : 245robertad
After an initial stop in a base camp where we ate soup and were unable to see the aurora, our two guides Caroline and Hugo took us an hour's journey to another location near a lake and from there we managed to see a unique show. During the trip Caroline told us many interesting things about the Arctic and life in Tromso while Hugo explained to us scientifically how the aurora occurs. Two motivated and highly trained young guides.
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Posted On : 2023-12-29 04:23:45
Posted By : Vladyslav_K
Nice camp and guides. Provided good explanation of northern light made greate photos and told interesting stories
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Posted On : 2023-12-26 13:21:03
Posted By : franbE6682DR
Good tour and facilities. Knowledgable guides.. Reindeer stew was marginal. Campfires were a nice touch.
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Posted On : 2023-03-18 11:37:50
