Trips To Oslo is an independent guide to the city, written and maintained by Samer Alqaisi. It is part of a network that includes Trips To The World and separate guides to Istanbul, Madrid, New York, Dublin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Edinburgh, Dubai, Cairo, Sydney, Toronto, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Manchester and Zagreb.
What this site is trying to be
Oslo is usually written up as “expensive” and then as a list of museums, and both halves of that miss it.
The city’s actual character is that two-thirds of the municipality is protected forest and water, that the forest is on the metro map, and that a great deal of the best of Oslo costs nothing. So this site gives that its own article — friluftsliv — and a cost page that separates what is genuinely expensive here from what visitors merely fear will be.
It also explains the alcohol rules properly, because nobody warns people clearly and every visitor is caught out by them once.
How it is researched
Opening times and access come from the venue’s own source and are dated on the page. Where a price is not shown, it has not been checked recently enough to print.
Two things in Oslo need saying loudly rather than quietly: the Viking Ship Museum has been closed since 2021 and is in every guidebook that still recommends it, and the Emanuel Vigeland mausoleum opens for a couple of hours a week. Both are on pages that say so at the top.
Corrections are made quickly and acknowledged.
How it is funded
Advertising and some affiliate links, mainly hotel and flight search. If you book through one, the site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
What that does not buy: no hotel, restaurant, tour operator or attraction has paid for a mention or a position here. No sponsored posts, no paid placements, no press trips.
Where something is not worth the money, the page says so — which is why the airport article tells you that the ordinary train costs half what the airport express does for four minutes’ difference, why the Aker Brygge entry says the boardwalk restaurants are the most expensive in Oslo and not the best, and why the Nobel Peace Center page says the permanent display is thin.
Photographs
The photographs on this site are not the author’s. They come from Wikimedia Commons under licences permitting reuse, and every one is credited beside the image and again at /credits/.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong or out of date, please say so. Specific corrections with a date or a link are the most useful kind.
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