Norway holidays

The Norwegians look forward to winter every year, and our winter holidays give a good indication why. Cross country skiing is a Norwegian staple, wonderfully low impact, and a lovely way to explore snow-clad forests on a winter holiday, or you could explore on snow shoes: for silent, slow travel at its best. Add a bit of paw power on one of our hut to hut dog sledding trips – gorgeous huskies are enough to convert the staunchest cat lover. And come in from the cold afterwards to one of our pick of locally-run hotels, where you'll fuel up on seasonal food sourced a stone’s throw from your ski tracks.

Somewhere between tales of trolls and stories about the Vikings you’ll realise that your children are having an even better time than you are on a Norway family holiday. The landscape is filled with legends, whilst our wildlife holidays are a big hit with kids, and seeing polar bears will impress everyone. In winter, you can have fun watching each other fall over while you try to master the art of cross country skiing or bundle up under reindeer skins and watch for the aurora borealis. Our family holidays stay in locally-run accommodation in the most interesting places – whether that’s pods for aurora watching or a working farm.

Our winter holidays can be as active or as relaxing as you like – cross country ski on the Peer Gynt Trail or try some winter photography in the Lofoten Islands. After snowmelt, our walking holidays hike the spectacular mountains in ‘Fjord Norway’. You can choose to take this a step further with glacier hikes, and kayaking, on action-packed adventure agendas. And the wildlife is almost as dramatic as the landscape – go on one of our wildlife holidays to swim with orcas or follow polar bears. We visit Norway’s growing list of nationally recognised sustainable destinations, like Tromso, Bergen, Lofoten and Bodo, so you can support the country’s green ambitions in its towns as well as its landscapes.