Oslo for New Years

conor_ie

I'm heading to Oslo with the Missus for a few days over New Years, Can anyone recommend places to go things to do???

ardmacha

Oslo is pretty quiet at that time of year, there isn't the activity that you would find in German regions, for instance.

Check out Munch anyhow.

woodchuck

I was there last summer, so I’d imagine there are different things to do during the winter! But some of things I enjoyed then were:
- Munch museum
- City hall (free; nobel prize awarded here)
- Vigeland sculpture park (free)
- The royal palace (lovely park beside it)
- The opera house (if you like unusual architecture)
- A boat ride tour into the oslo fjord
- Taking a boat to the islands in the fjord
- Norsk folkemuseum (kind of an outdoor ‘museum’ that you walk around and see the different types of buildings through different stages of Norways history. And there’s ‘actors’ in costume aswell).
- Reptile park (this is very small though, so I’d only go if you’re particularly into animals and/or want to escape the cold!)

Just to let you know it’s VERY expensive over there (food etc). Whatever spending money you normally bring, literally double it There’s an oslo pass you can get too that might be worth looking into that includes transport and entrance fees to certain places. It’s a very compact city though, so unless there’s somewhere further out you want to go (maybe skiing?) then you’ll probably be doing a lot of walking. It is a nice city just to walk around though, lots of interesting architecture and by the water, so you don’t necessarily have to do a lot of ‘touristy’ things.