Bus Gudvangen to Voss

There is a bus that leaves Gudvangen 16:25. The bus before departs 15:30. Although none of them leave from the dock. Most tourists use local bus 950 that leaves from Gudvangen dock, its schedule can be found here: https://www.skyss.no/globalassets/reise/rutetabellar/buss/haustruter2022/hardanger---voss/vy950.pdf

Badger,

Thanks so much for your insight. I'm still a little confused. My ferry reservation leaves Flam at 1:30pm and arrives in Gudvangen at 3:30pm. It looks like the #950 bus departs at 5:25pm (a two hour wait).

Looking at Norwaysbest website, the afternoon ferry leaves Flam at 3:20 and arrives at 5:20 with the bus leaving Gudvangen at 5:45pm.(I assume the dock).

But, the #950 bus from the ferry dock is scheduled to leave 5 minutes after arrival of the 5:20pm ferry.

I chose the 1:30 ferry on LustraBaatane so I could get to Voss a little earlier. But it looks like regardless of the ferry I choose from Flam I'll get to Voss about 7pm unless I can catch the 4:52pm VY express bus bus from Gudvangen arriving in Voss at 6pm (still one hour and 20 minutes wait for the bus). That said, you are suggesting that that VY bus leaves from Gudvangen not the ferry dock. How far is Gudvangen from the dock and how do I get there?

Maybe I should just cancel my reservation with LustraBaatane and just take the later ferry arranged through NorwaysBest? (getting into Voss at 7PM?

What do you think?

Thanks,

Tom

As you've discovered, there are two companies running ferries between Flam and Gudvangen. There are also two flavors of buses between Gudvangen and Voss. As I understand it, the tourist bus that makes a detour to a scenic viewpoint on the way to Voss is scheduled, at least to some degree, to align with arrival times of the FjordTours ferries (the ones bookable through NorwaysBest), not the LustraBaatane ferries. I have no idea why that is.

Edited to add: The tourist bus to Gudvangen stops at the dock (confirmed by my experience last June). The somewhat faster "express bus" that doesn't take the scenic detour stops up the hill, as badger says.

There is a 16:25 bus as well as I mentioned. That, and other buses, use the bus stops on the main road, about a 400 m walk from the dock.

Thanks to all.

I think I'm just going to change to the 3:20 ferry from Flam and have the timely bus link. That will allow us to spend more time in Flam.

Thanks again to all.

Tom