Travel Arrangements & Insurance Information for Holiday Clients

Nordic Challenge is not a tour operator and our clients need to make their own travel arrangements. We will advise you on the most suitable flights and transfer arrangements for your specific holiday. Alternatively, you may wish to use the services of...

….our travel agent partner...

who will make the necessary flight arrangements for your holiday. (N.B.This agent cannot book Norwegian rail travel). Please contact:

Tracy Charlton
Co-operative Travel
25 Market Place
Richmond
North Yorkshire
DL10 4QG
 
ABTA 74606
 
Tel: 01748 823621
E-mail:

For all our Holidays and Courses

Flights

We recommend that clients fly direct to Oslo (Gardermoen) International. SAS and BA are the only two carriers that fly direct to Oslo (Gardermoen) from London Heathrow or Manchester. Internal connecting flights to London and Manchester are available from many of the UK's provincial airports.
The low cost Norwegian airline Norwegian.no (www.norwegian.no) flies from both London Gatwick and Edinburgh direct to Oslo (Gardermoen).

Clients on these holidays can also book KLM flights to Oslo from Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool and Leeds/Bradford airports, but these flights involve a change at Amsterdam.

Clients can also fly Ryanair from Edinburgh, Liverpool and Stansted to Oslo Torp (on the South coast of Norway) and from Stansted and Newcastle *(new)* to Oslo Rygge/Moss, which is 40 mins south of Oslo.  Although these flights can be financially attractive, clients should be aware that flights to these destinations will incur additional transfer costs to reach Vinstra.

Ideally, we recommend that:

  • outward flights should be early morning flights to allow transfer to the hotel during daylight hours.
  • Return flights should be late afternoon or early evening flights and preferably not before 1530.

Transfer Arrangements

Cross-country Skills holidays, Medley holidays and Telemark courses (all at Wadahl)

We recommend that clients transfer from Oslo (Gardermoen) to Vinstra using the Norwegian national rail company NSB. Trains can be booked on line at www.nsb.no. A convenient train to catch departs Oslo (Gardermoen) at 1445 and arrives at Vinstra at 1721. Clients will be collected from Vinstra station, which is only 20 minutes from the hotel. Train times may be subject to alteration when a new timetable is published in October 2010.

For the return journey

  • We recommend that all our Wadahl based clients use www.nsb.no to book the 1158 train from Vinstra, which arrives at Oslo(Gardermoen) at 1445. Clients will be taken to Vinstra station by hotel mini-bus to catch this train. Return flights should therefore be booked for after 1530. This is important as the alternative transfer arrangements may involve a very early bus, or a train from Lillehammer, which could incur an additional and substantial transfer fee. (Special arrangements will be made for those clients flying to home destinations served by only one early flight).
Peer Gynt Tour Experience holidays and Mountain Ski Touring Skills courses at Ruten

Our Peer Gynt Tour Experience clients and Mountain Ski Touring Skills Courses clients will be met by  a minibus/coach at Oslo airport on Saturday 12 March and Saturday 26 March, which will transfer them to Dalseter and Ruten.

For the return journey

  • Peer Gynt Tour Experience clients will catch the transfer coach from the Wadahl hotel which departs at 0830 on Sat 19 March and Saturday 2 April. The coach arrives at Oslo Gardermoen airport at 1200.
  • Mountain Skills courses clients will be transferred to Vinstra station to catch the 1158 train to Oslo Gardermoen, which arrives at the airport at 1445. Return flights should be booked for a departure time of later than 1530. Clients who are flying to destinations where there is only one flight in the day, can be transferred to Wadahl to catch the 0830 coach to Oslo airport. 

 

Booking flights

Flights can be booked on line as follows:

The Nordic Challenge office can advise clients on specific flights when they book a holiday or course. General advice on flights is available in our Information Pack, available on request to those booking holidays.

Insurance

All Nordic Challenge clients will require individual Winter Sports and Holiday Travel insurance cover.