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Conference turris::scandia

Title:All about Scandinavia
Moderator:TLE::SAVAGE
Created:Wed Dec 11 1985
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:603
Total number of notes:4325

448.0. "SVALBARD and holidays. Help !" by LEMAN::SCHEIDEGGER (Raymond Scheidegger - Switzerland - DTN 753-2285) Fri Feb 08 1991 04:45

    Hi,
    
    I'll be this summer in Norway/Sweden. 
    
    I would like also to stay 2 or 3 nights in SVALBARD.
    
    It seem very hard to find hotels/B&B ...
    
    Q1: Have you hints to find an hotel or equivalent solution
        in SVALBARD for 2/3 nights ?
    
    The only way in found to go to SVALBARD is by plane. (twice a week)
    I think it should also be possible to use a regular lines of boats ...
     
    Q2: Where to find a time table ?   
    
    Thanks in advance for your help.
    
    Raymond Scheidegger / Switzerland
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448.1Don't know if this will help but..TLE::SAVAGEFri Feb 08 1991 10:179
    My information dates from 1985, but back then there was an office of
    the Norwegian tourist board that covered France/Switzerland.
    
    The address was:
    
    	Office National du Tourisme de Norv`ege, 88, Avenue Charles de Galle
    	92200 Neully sur Seine
    
    Sorry, I don't have a telephone number
448.2How about a "Spitsbergen Cruise"OSLLAV::TORTor Krog, CS Communication, Oslo NorwaySat Feb 09 1991 12:4615
One quick look in Aftenposten (an Oslo newspaper) and i found an ad for
a Svalbard/Spitsbergen Cruise. There are probably lots of others, but this
travel agency is called :

	Informa
	Svalbard Polar Travel
	Karl Johansgate 16 B
	N-0154 Oslo 1

	Phone (47) 2 42 38 10
	or    (47) 2 11 55 00

Have a nice trip, Svalbard is wonderful place (in the summer).

	Tor
448.3Mailboat "cruise" ...GRANPA::MWALLAI'dRatherHearSomeBlues&FunkyOl'SoulWed Jul 03 1991 12:5521
    
    I don't know if the originator has gone yet or not, but...
    
    I was there in 1980 - we took a two-week "cruise" from Bergen (with
    several stops along the coast of Norway), up to Longyearbyn and
    Ny-Alsund, then back to Bergen.  We were actually on a mailboat, so it
    was nothing fancy - a small cabin for sleeping and three meals a day -
    but it included some of the sights at the ports-of-call (transportation
    to and from).
    
    We, of course, spent all the nights in our little cabin, so I don't
    know about places to stay on Svalbard.
    
    We were the first boat up that summer and the weather was wonderfully
    clear!  What an *incredible* place!!!
    
    ---Marlene                  
       GRANPA::WALLA
    
    
    Anyway, if anyone is interested, I can dig up the old information