Hurtigruten Northern Lights Cruise Review

Flying home after 7  days Northern Lights Voyage with Hurtigruten's MS Trollfjord , January 2019. Northbound from Bergen to Kirkenes  ...

Kirkenes  - the 'Church on the Peninsula' . We checked out of the cabin at 8 am and went for breakfast. Gave us plenty of time, as ...

We did experience Northern Lights three times during our voyage. At Lofoten the Aurora Borealis was visible from 9:00 pm in 40 minutes whil...

Link to Daily Program (Dagsprogram) for the Northbound sailing from Bergen to Kirkenes: Daily Program Day 2 , Daily program Day 3 , Dai...

We have booked stateroom 691 -  Category Q - Mini Suite at deck 6 - window view (no balcony), with seating area, television, kettle, tea/cof...

Brunch was  served from 10:30 am - lunch was cancelled due to early start of the excursions. At 11:15 am we arrived in Honningsvåg - a lon...

January 15th we had an Hurtigruten excursion to North Cape (Norwegian: Nordkapp), a 307 m high cliff (1,007 ft) with a large flat plateau on...

Tired after the nightly experiences with Northern Lights, we decided to drop off breakfast and get up a little later and have lunch alread...

We woke up for a day that turned out to be more exciting than we thought. The day started with breakfast, followed by lunch, reading, kni...

January 13, 2019 at 07:10 am MS Trollfjord crossed the Arctic Circle. The position of the Arctic Circle is not fixed; as of 13 January 2019,...

The sky was clear and just before arrival into Svolvær at Lofoten we saw the Northern Lights at 8:40 pm - the lights were visible for 4...

At 11 pm as MS Trollfjord entered the 100m-wide mouth of Trollfjord, while spotlights picked out the 1,000m-high cliffs that soared into the...

During the night the sea was very calm.  We docked in Trondheim at 6 am in pouring rain. The long stop of today with possible excursions...

It blew a lot Friday and on the day's route we were in open waters twice - we had to secure everything that could overturn. In the mor...

Some claim that it always rains in Bergen. It's just almost right. It at least rains slightly in 242 of the year's 365 days,- from S...

The journey has started. We flew from Copenhagen to Bergen - directly with SAS. Took the light rail from the airport to the city Ce...

We had planned some excursions. Lots of snow and calm weather at the destinations.  Ship excursions in Tromsø: dog sledding on the island K...

I have installed some Aurora Alerts Apps on my smartphone where I can  monitor real-time auroral activity and get push alert if there may ...

There are two names for the Northern Lights depending on the aurora on the northern or southern hemispheres.  On the northern hemispheres...

In June 2017 I were on a Hurtigruten 'Midnight Sun Cruise' - link to review with pictures and videos  - with Hurtigruten M/S Kong H...