So my girlfriend and I have finally decided to pull the trigger and start planning out a northern lights trip to Tromsø, Norway. We did a lot of research and our choices were always between Iceland, Abisko (Sweden), or Tromsø in Norway.
Iceland had many activities but lower chances of lights and higher chances of inclement weather. Abisko seemed to have much better showings but outside of the lights, it seemed like the only other things to do were some hiking around the national park. There might be dog sledding too?
After some much consideration, we chose Norway. Tromsø had constantly been described as a place where you have super high chances of seeing the lights, along with having many other things to see and do. We came up with a rough budget for our trip. About $5000-$6000 for 2 people for 5 days, 6 nights, anytime between mid September to mid December (we haven’t decided so definitely give out suggestions if you have any). Let us know if we need to be more realistic with our budget.
Our plane tickets will be about $1000 each, and we found a place called smart hostel and we can get a room for $76 or so a night. We were thinking $1000 for our 5 days, 6 nights, which offers $166.66 a day for 2 people. This means we would have a little under a $100 a day after hostel expenses. Should we try for more? Another $2000 will be put towards activities ($1000 for each of us for our tours). We wanted to do whale watching for orcas, dog sledding through the snow, Aurora light chasing, and seeing reindeer with the Sami. This is why we budgeted sorta high with the activities.
That brings our total to $5000. We could probably try and get it to $6000 if we really needed to but how does that $5000 look for two people? Any suggestions on which month we go, given our other activities? Any suggestions would be super appreciated and thank you!