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Originally Posted by Bolesroor
Read this the other day and to quote `according to a 2012 study by New York's Columbia University Norway is one of the world's happiest countries`
Certainly looks a great place to visit. Is it as expensive as the news report makes out?
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Food is a bit more expensive, in general.
Sweet's / Chocolate - About £1.20 for a Mars bar etc...
A can of beer (they are allowed to split them out of packs in store) would be about £3.00
If you consider we pay about £2.50 - £2.80 for a bottle of beer it's not too much more.
Diesel was between £1.25 and £1.35 per litre, so slightly cheaper then here.
Houses are cheaper
You will get a fantastic large 3-4 bed house with double/triple garage and maybe even a barn, overlooking a Fjord for £250,000-£300,000.
Similar property in the UK would be £750,000+
Salary's are better. Working in the Co-op food store gets you about £15 per hour, so about £7 per hour more then UK
With regard to getting there.....in the last 18 months it has got a whole lot easier.
http://www.norwegian.com/ have grown into one of the best budget airlines. I travel a lot around Europe and the flight too/from Norway was one of the best I've been on.
You could probably fly to Bergen (and back) for a long weekend for about £70
Car hire for the 2-weeks was £498 through Rhino Car hire. This is a booking agency and the end provided was documented as 'Budget Car Hire'. I was expecting a Pug 308 (or similar). But in Norway they are joined with 'Avis'. So the car ended up being 'Avis' and quite a nice spec'd Volvo with only 10,000km on the clock (I added 2,200km in 2 weeks).
Had I booked direct with Avis it would of been £1000.
Overall this was one of the cheapest holidays we have had for family day's out. The only attraction we had to pay to get into was the Ergan Fort and 2 Tourist route Toll roads (£10 per car).
If it had been the UK, everywhere would of incurred a family entrance charge and forced the use of their Café/Restaurant.
I've paid a lot more in the UK to view a waterfall that in Norway won't even be on the map of have a sign.