Breakfast at the North Cape – Hurtigruten land excursion

On this excursion you will experience an exotic breakfast at the North Cape – the top of Europe, as well as large parts of West Finnmark.

This is an optional land excursion which you can add to your Hurtigruten cruise booked through Fjord Travel Norway. The land excursion will appear during the cruise booking process, with prices and details.

Midnight Sun North Cape by Bjarne Riesto, Nordnorsk Reiseliv

Midnight Sun at the North Cape

The North Cape plateau stretches 307 m (1000 ft) above the churning Arctic Ocean and the special experience of witnessing it is well worth waking up early for. Here, at the very top of Europe, you will enjoy a hearty breakfast and see an impressive 180 degree panoramic film about the North Cape region through the four seasons.

From Honningsvag, you drive through an underwater tunnel that connects the town with the mainland. The bus will then travel south along the majestic Porsangerfjord before heading back towards the coast to Hammerfest – a place that has undergone a dramatic change since it became the host municipality of the high-tech Snohvit offshore gas field project. It is here, in the world’s northernmost town, that you rejoin Hurtigruten.

Hurtigruten arriving to Honningsvag by Christian Roth Christensen, Visit Norway

Hurtigruten calling at Honningsvag

Practical information:

Duration: 6 hours. Early morning start!
Included: Breakfast
Transportation: Bus
Clothes/footwear: Comfortable shoes
Available: May 8- October 7
Land excursion #8A

Landscape close to the North Cape by Pixabay

On the way to the North Cape

Available on the following Hurtigruten cruise packages:

Cruise package Oslo-Kirkenes-Bergen, 8 nights
Highlights of the Norwegian Coast, 11 nights

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What our customers say:

Thank you for assisting us with our trip to Norway. We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Kirkenes and the Snow Hotel. The arrangements you made for us were perfect. The lodging was comfortable and the excursions were fun. Tom and I rarely use the services of a travel company when we travel; you enriched our trip and made the planning easy.

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On behalf of the group I would like to thank you and your colleagues for organizing our wonderful tour of Norway. Everything went very well including the weather, which was spectacular. We enjoyed all the hotels, the central locations you chose and the amenities, especially the lavish breakfasts. Three extra days in Oslo allowed us to tour the city at our leisure and to enjoy more of the important sights including the newly opened National Museum. The Norway in a Nutshell tour was amazing and made much easier by using your recommended porterage service between hotels in Oslo and Bergen. Both the train journeys and the boat trip were spectacular, and combined with a night in the beautiful Kviknes Hotel made for an unforgettable two days. We were very impressed by the Hurtigruten cruise, particularly the way they combined a working ship with a cruise ship, the comfortable accommodations, the food and service. It was fascinating to visit all the various ports, islands and fjords and the two included tours were excellent and informative. In the end we were glad to have the extra night in Kirkenes, to visit their lovely museum and take a trip to the Russian border. It was a good way to end the tour. Again, thank for staying with us through 2 years of pandemic postponements and changes. We certainly will recommend Fjord Travel in the future.

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