Travel on a budget

Train

Travel with your own car

Car rental

Bus

Express buses are a nice and cheap alternative to car, and in Norway the bus routes are rather well developed. 
Nor-Way - Skyss - Nettbuss - Kringom
 

Hotels

Several of the hotel chains offer bonus cards. After a while you can obtain free accomodation, and some cards can also give you discounts on train tickets or car rental. If you are travelling outside the high season, it is worth while to call the hotel directly and try to bargain.
 

Norwegian Trekking Association

Bring your own tent, or if you want a bit of luxury, stay at one of the Norwegian Trekking Association's (DNT) lodges. The trekking association is a membership association with more than 470 cabins situated all over the country. The cabins make it possible to go trekking from cabin to cabin for several weeks. The sizes of the cabins vary from very small with only a few beds to large fully catered cabins with close to 200 beds. The DNT cabins are owned and run by the DNT's members' associations. If you are a member in DNT you get a discount when staying at one of the cabins. The prices vary from cabin to cabin, if you stay in a single room or in a dorm and if it is a staffed lodge or not.
 

Bed & Breakfast

You can find a Bed & Breakfast or a room for rent, in private houses all over the country. Simple, nice and inexpensive. Check out B&B Norway or contact the tourist information where you are going. The prices might vary quite a bit, but you should count on paying from 400 kr for a night in a double room with breakfast.
 

Cabin camping or tent

The freedom to roam

The freedom to roam, or "Allemannsretten" in Norwegian, is the freedom to access or pass through uncultivated land at all times of year, provided that consideration and due care is shown. Any person can also access and pass through cultivated land when the ground is frozen or snow-covered, but not in the period from the 30th of April till the 14th of October. Thus, anyone can camp on uncultivated land, if the tent is pitched more than 150 metres from a house or cabin, and if the place is left in the condition it was upon arrival. One can stay for a maximum of two days without the owner's permission. Un cultivated land, the owner's permission is needed in order to camp or picnic.

This right is quite uncommon in the rest of Europe, a part from Sweden and partly Scotland. The freedom to roam is based upon the respect of nature and the environment, the owners of the land and other users. 
 

Hiking

The Fjord Norway region is perfect for hiking. Bring your tent and food and pitch your tent for free, or stay at one of the Norwegian Trekking Association's cabins. The self-serviced cabins are the cheapest. In the cities it is also easy to go hiking. From the city centre in Bergen it is easy to get up to Fløien or the other mountains surrounding the city, and in Ålesund you can walk up to Aksla for an amazing view.
 

Biking

Go biking in Fjord Norway! A holiday on your bike with your own tent is a environmental friendly and affordable way of exploring the region. If you rent a cabin or pitch a tent on a campsite, you have a basecamp from where you can explore the surroundings.
 

Fishing

Nature attractions

Architecture