pre tour stop before "Scandinavia in 14 Days Tour"

Fly to Stockholm and take a ferry to Tallinn or Helsinki.
Even better go right to Stockholm so you’ll have time to see all its historic sites. It looks like the tour only gives Stockholm two days.

I assume you'll be flying in from the U.S.? Stockholm has a remarkably busy airport, but the only flights from the U.S. are on Delta through JFK and United from Newark.

Your 14 day Scandanavian tour takes you to many of the region's other cities with active airports. Tallin and Helsinki would be great to visit, but there are no flights to Tallin from the U.S. FinnAir flights are available to Helsinki from DFW, JFK and seasonally from O'Hare, Miami and SEATAC. The ferries are very popular ways to get from Helsinki into Stockholm.

But you can fly into Stockholm from virtually any of the gateway airports in Europe. Of course most of them are very far south of Stockholm which is located pretty far north.

Your tour ends in Bergen, Norway--on the western coast of the country. We adore that city. When we flew out of Bergan, we made connections in Oslo. But there are no longer any non-stop flights to North America from either city. You'll have to connect through one of the big gateway airports to get home.

I too would stretch my time in Stockholm

Since that is a very rushed tour through parts of Scandinavia I'd suggest flying to Stockholm a bit earlier and either spending a few days in Stockholm or somewhere not that far from it, to see a bit more of Sweden. What are your interests and what do you want to see and do during those days?

I assume you'll be flying in from the U.S.? Stockholm has a remarkably
busy airport, but the only flights from the U.S. are on Delta through
JFK and United from Newark.

And SAS from New York, Chicago or Miami. (And Toronto if you are coming from Canada). www.flysas.com

When we flew out of Bergan, we made connections in Oslo. But there are
no longer any non-stop flights to North America from either city.

Again, SAS flies to both New York and Miami from Oslo…

I'm doing the Scandinavian tour in August, and I have decided to fly to London for a few days before heading to Stockholm. My main deciding factor was having enough AA miles for a RT to London.

Hi, Given the restrictions of making a cruise on time, I would stay in Stockholm. Tacking on another city just adds too much in transit time & risks missing your cruise, too many horror stories these days of missed flights. How about at the end of your cruise, maybe add those 2 nights somewhere en route to the US, use the "multi city" when booking so you don't need to fly RT to one destination?

Although routes are constantly changing, here's a few options we've used getting to Stockholm with one change- UA flies from SFO with one stopover; BA flies via LDN; Icelandic Air via Iceland; someone already mentioned SAS; Lufthansa flies via MUC & FRA, Air France via Paris; Swiss Air via Zurich. I haven't tried TAP via Lisbon, but they sometimes offer a free stopover there which might be fun on the way home...

The OP is joining a Rick Steves tour, not a cruise.

Jeffrey, Wondered what you decided about possible stop-over before Stockholm? I just looked up the RS tour price, that's $785 per day for the 2 of you, so can't imagine you'd want to miss any of it by delayed arrival. Hope it goes well, always curious what people do with all these diverse ideas!

We did this tour last September, flew in on Thursday with the tour starting on Sunday. Prior to the tour starting we went on a E-bike guided tour one day, and a guided food tour the other free day. Stockholm is a beautiful city with lots to see and would have missed out if we did not have the extra free days prior to starting the tour.

Add extra days to Stockholm! There is do much to see there.

We are on the same schedule in mid-June and will just stay at the Hotel Wellington two extra nights and see more of the city and archipelago.