Help with Itinerary

It does read like an overly-optimistic AI-generated itinerary that may not be realistic. After planning and taking a trip to Norway that included planes, trains and automobiles— there were closed roads due to landslides and closed railway lines from flooding that occurred— in August!

Even during summer, the weather in Norway is an unpredictable variable that may require being flexible with your plans. Think about what you would do if on Day 3–when a full day is planned to hike glacier valleys —it’s steadily raining. Would you want to stay an extra night on the chance you could hike the next day? Or would the packed six-night itinerary with lots of driving require you to sacrifice the hiking plans because you have to keep moving along?

This itinerary requires driving more than 700 miles during 6 days, with the final day requiring more than 5 driving hours to return the rental car and then fly out of Bergen’s airport. That’s not going to be a relaxing week in Norway.

Kenko has been very gentle. I think this is an awful itinerary that will have you spending long days in the car without time to see anything.

You get off the plane and then have to drive 3 hours to Aurland. You have a lot of long drives that rely on ferry schedules. Every morning except one, you have to get up and pack and load your car to go to a new destination. And at the end you have a long drive with a ferry back to the airport to catch a flight.

If these are the places you want to visit, I would say you need at least two weeks.

Thanks of your feedback. Do you have any suggestions?

We are not locked into anything, just looking for a nice way to see the western coast of Norway. We could skip Bergen and fly to Alesund and stay up north (relative to Bergen). I did like the idea of both hiking in the national park and seeing the coast. Do you still get the impressive fjord experience if you stay up there versus down near flam and the other towns people speak about?

I appreciate the idea of not driving so much, but it doesn't seem like a place where you can just plant in one space for a home base and do day trips. Please correct me if this is wrong. It seems like we will have to rely on using the ferry's to some extent, I think? Any suggestions are welcome. As I said, we have a week, but can add more time, we will just have to shave off other parts of our trip.
Thanks

As I said, to do the itinerary you have listed, you need about 2 weeks minimum. With one week, maybe stay between Bergen, Geiranger, and Ålesund.

I'm not sure I agree that you can't stay in one place and use it as a base. Maybe not for all 7 days, but consider a few days in Geiranger and a few days in Bergen. And you can get to Geiranger by ferry from Bergen. You may not see as many different places, but what you see will be stunning, and you will be able to enjoy it at leisure.

I'd definitely plan to get back to Bergen the night before your flight.

During a 10-day visit we actually based in Alesund for five nights. From Alesund we rented a car for two days and drove to Geiranger, then saw the Seven Sisters waterfalls from the Ornesvingen Viewpoint a few miles outside of Geiranger. We overnighted on the road in a cabin on a farm outside of Eidsdal before driving north on Highway 63– a spectacular scenic highway that will take you to the TROLLSTIGEN (“Troll’s Staircase”) and the TROLLVEGEN (“Troll’s Wall”) before driving along the Romsdalen— the narrow river valley that follows the course of the Romsdal River. Highway 63 packs a lot of scenery into a journey of less than 100 miles and there is an Arctic tundra-like landscape just before arriving at the Trollstigen—one of Norway’s most stunning places.
Because we concentrated on Highway 63, we had plenty of time to see places like Valldal and Tafjord and probably drove along the shorelines of a dozen fjords along the way,
One day we took a roundtrip boat trip from Alesund to Geiranger so we could see the fjords from the water .
Oslo and Bergen had a lot of interest as well. But the real beauty of Norway is found in its natural landscapes.

Based on your other post it looks like you're planning for next summer and that you will be arriving in Norway from a relatively short flight.

You need to narrow your focus. You'll want to make stops enroute to take in the views, see waterfalls, go for a hike, breathe the air.

Flying in and out of Bergen, consider 2 nights Aurland, 2 nights Balestrand and 2 nights Bergen.

This will give you time to enjoy the views, see waterfalls and Stave Churches, cruise the spectacular Naerøyfjord, go kayaking and hiking, stop in old villages or an outdoor Folkemuseum, take a cruise to a glacier, visit the Bryggen, take in the views from Mt. Fløyen while hiking.

Or fly in and out of Ålesund. Combine several nights in Ålesund with a couple of nights on the road to explore the beautiful city, the islands, the Geirangerfjord, Trollstigen and the Hjørundfjorden. Waterfalls, lighthouses, kayaking, hiking, open air museum, views ...