Fjord cruise after best of Scandinavia tour

Hurtigruten and Havila offer 6-day trips from Bergen to Kirkenes following the same route along Norway's coast. You can use these ships also to travel port to port, e. g. to explore Lofoten. Due to limited capacities (small ships) and high demand the prices can be high. Traveling besides high season and waiting for special offers are good price saving strategies.

Going to Kirkenes with only a week to use, you would have to fly back from Kirkenes.

You can also do a short 3 day cruise on Hurtigruten to Trondheim, 4 days to Tromso or 5 days to Svolvaer (in the Lofotens). At Trondheim you could change ships and come back south. Or time in Trondheim then train back to Oslo.
From Tromso or Svolvaer there are flights back.
On Hurtigruten the ports you called at by night northbound you call at by day southbound, and vice versa so it is not the same scenery both ways.
Or from Trondheim you could take the daily train north across the Arctic circle to Bodo and fly back from there. Yes it is an all day train ride.
Port to port tickets on Hurtigruten are more expensive than the various cruise options.

That really helps. Thanks

I did a little research and found Hurtigruten pricing out of this solo traveler’s budget. I opted for a Princess cruise that departs from Southampton. If you find that you also run into budget issues, expand your search for departure ports. I think doing Both a cruise and the RS tour sounds like an amazing trip.

Edited to add: If you are serious about finding a fellow tour mate who might be interested, you need to list which specific tour you are on.

It was way too expensive for a single. I’ll try the other site. Thank you.

I just added that info. Thanks

Port to port tickets on Hurtigruten are more expensive than the various cruise options.

With a lot of port-to-port experience in various years I do not share this generalizing statement.
I often booked cheaper than full cruises - also this year.

I’ll keep trying

Mark, please give cshortz the website you use for point-to-point bookings. The site Americans are us ally directed to may still be more expensive, as was reported here some time ago.

I'm traveling now and don't have access to my notes for Norway.

Thanks.

While I love Hurtigruten and would recommend them to anyone, their dynamic pricing has become extreme.

In the next few days a round trip cruise for a solo is £15,000 to £16,000 which is just ludicrous, greedy and indefensible.

Specifically the OP wishes to travel on September 9- a live quote for the cruise all the way to Kirkenes, solo is £2615 + the transfer and flights back.
Port only to Honningsvag (well south of Kirkenes) for the North Cape is £2304 BUT to compare like for like p to p bookings exclude all meals, so add back £529 for meals (a 20% discount off on board prices)- that comes to more than the cruise to Kirkenes.

So I looked at a deep off season date- 6 December- cruise to Kirkenes £1422, p to p to Honningsvag £1275 + £529 meals cost- to compare apples to apples, not apples to pears.

These fares are from their international sites. I am aware that they have a norwegian language site which I know used to offer starkly lower prices than the international websites. I have used it before but am not confident enough in Norwegian to use it, nor can I currently trace it.

When you look at any major cruise line those prices- £200 a night in deep off season are hard to defend and justify to pay. Not on the US cruise lines, but on UK lines I have recently had offers for fjord cruises in season for as low as £40/night solo. The US lines are probably not that low!!

I really hope the OP can find something to suit her budget.

I’ll keep trying to find one. Thank you

I use the Norwegian website of Hurtigruten.
https://www.hurtigruten.no/havn-til-havn/#/

As mentioned already the capacities are limited and the demand this year seems astonishing high. This explains the price level.

Competitor Havila offers also journeys and port-to-port but with car loading and deloading only in Bergen and Kirkenes.

Tip: DeepL is a very good translator for this.