Orthopaedic surgery in Norway : Travel and accommodation

Norway has 50 airports located around the country connecting flights nationally and to and from the rest of Europe.  Oslo International airport (Gardermoen) is an attractive, modern airport located 48 km north of the city with excellent road and rail connections.  Travel to and from the centre of town is best done by bus (a 40 minute journey) or the shuttle (‘Flytoget’) which departs every ten minutes and takes just 20 minutes into town.  Taxis can be quite expensive and the journey time doesn’t tend to be any quicker.  In the southwest of Oslo, the smaller international airport, Torp, is located 120 km south of town in the town of Sandefjord and serves the budget airlines and charter planes.  In the west of Norway, Haugesund Airport, Karmoy is located 20 minutes from the centre of town and has an airport bus serving the route to and from town.  Other major international airports are located at Torp in Vestfold, Bergen, Stavanger and Trondheim.

 

Airlines operating between Norway and the UK are British Airways, Ryanair, SAS Braathens (Norway’s largest airline offering an extensive network of international and domestic flights) and Norwegian Air.  The Norwegian Air Shuttle has daily flights to eight airports in Norway and daily flights between London Stansted and Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim.  SAS Braathens has daily flights from London Heathrow to Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger.  It also has departures from Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and Newcastle, as well as a series of domestic routes.  British Airways flies to Oslo from London Heathrow, with four flights a day, seven days a week with fares from £106 return including taxes.  Ryanair has two flights per day to Oslo Torp airport in Sandefjord and flies to Haugesund in the west with return fares from £9.99 plus taxes and a flying time of just 90 minutes.  For special late deals it is also worth looking at cheapflights and lastminute.

 

Travelling to Norway is pretty easy.  As part of mainland Europe, Norway can be reached by car, bus and train, and there are also ferry connections from the UK.  Fjord Line has regular sailings every week from Newcastle to the west coast (Stavanger, Haugesund and Bergen).  The crossing time is quite long but the boats are modern, comfortable car ferries with restaurants and cabins for overnight journeys.

 

An extensive rail network links Norway to Europe with high-speed trains connecting the Scandinavian capitals of Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo and international trains arrive at Oslo Central (Oslo-S) from all over Europe.  See Rail Europe for train routes from the UK.

If you want to know more about the options for private surgery in Norway, take a look at our featured clinics and providers.

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