Nordic SagaReviews of nordicsaga.com

Susie, Our trip to Sweden was a complete success, thanks to your expert knowledge and scheduling! I was impressed greatly with your expertise with the train schedules, the hotel locations, the air itineraries, and how they interact. Every aspect went as planned, and we were able to sightsee quite a bit, connect with our relatives and visit the churches and graves of our ancestors.

we joined the Visa Free Tours or Ferry passengers which took the route of HELSINKI - ST. PETERSBURG - TALLINN - STOCKHOLM. we were greeted by the tour operator the moment we exit from the immigration. The 3 days arrangement were well spread out, we had enough time to visit each sights, our tour guide was knowledgeable and explains well and she managed the timing very well. The hotel we stayed in was Solo Sokos Hotel Vasilievsky, room was spacious, breakfast and service was good. We are so glad we joined this tour as we did not have to que to enter the palaces at Pushkin and Petergof. The only set back was that on the first day the tour guide who received us was different from the one that led us on day 2 and 3.

Great trip with excellent tour manager, Heidi.

Thank you so very much Susie for all your help in planning and working with me on our trip to Norway and Iceland!! Thanks for helping me to customize our wonderful trip to fit our desires!! We had a wonderfully super time!! Thanks again for all your help.-.

We fully enjoyed our 3 day tour of St Petersburg. Having a local guide (Anna), provided a unique view of Russian life. She was the very best of guides, a wealth of information, and helped us to appreciate everything we saw. She went out of her way to provide some local colour (lunch at her favourite restaurants Katyusha and Tepemok ) and tips on buying souvenirs and cultural extras. Anna comes highly recommended. The only change I would request is that the schedule takes into account a light lunch around 12 or 1pm. Anna had to modify our schedule to provide this. Oh yes the boarding and off loading on the Princess Anastasia was terrible (took way too long and was disorganised). On the whole though a fantastic trip.

obby, I just wanted to take a minute to thank you so very much for your planning for our trip. It was absolutely fantastic!!!!! The hotel, was wonderful (and you were right, of course, the walk from our hotel to the pick-up site was just a short walk). An unexpected surprise was their buffet dinner, which was welcomed after wonderful days out at Camp Tamok. Everyone we came into contact with, car driver for airport pick-up, hotel staff and most especially the wonderful people at the Camp helped to make this a very special trip. We did get to see the Northern Lights on our first night (on the boat where the captain and his staff were a wonderful introduction to the Norwegian people)! Again, thank you so much.

We had a wonderful trip! Everyone was very friendly and helpful, they went out of their way to make sure everyone was safe and having a good time. Our trip included the Dog Sledding, Snow mobiles and Reindeer sledding as well as chasing the Northern Lights. We had a great time on all of the trips. We especially enjoyed the Dog Sledding. The food was very tasty. We spent the night in a Chalet but we had snow over night and didn't get to see the Lights. Fantastic trip - I highly recommend it. Just one note: Buy removable cleats for your shoes/boots, it helps when walking around Tromso.

Nordic Saga is really just a retailer of wholesale tours. If this review were just about their part, it would be 5 stars. All the pre-trip arrangements with Dora Rozet were great. I thought the price of the tour was reasonable. Dora was helpful and prompt in her replies to my e-mails.The tour itself was run by Trans Nordic Tours. It was what they call their Legends of Scandinvia tour that ran from Stockholm through the fjords to Bergen then Oslo and ending in Copenhagen. Our guide, Lissa, was wonderful. So was the driver. The local guides in Stockhom and Oslo were very good. I felt we were rushed through the Viking Ship museum by our Oslo guide. There were only 22 people on the tour so it was not a large group which was good. The itinerary was fine except I don't see the point of bothering with Bergen. I would rather have skipped it and spent more time in the fjord region. We had a lot of rain, especially in Norway but the operator has no control over that. The hotels were mostly very good with the exception of the Scandic Hamar which was at best adequate. The real downer of the trip was the ferry from Oslo to Copenhagen. That was a miserable experience starting with an inexcusably chaotic boarding process followed by rough seas during the night. I realize my experience colors my view, but I would avoid any tour that uses this ferry. If I were organizing the trip I would go from Oslo to the fjords to Stockholm then to Copenhagen, the last part on bus or train. A 5 hour train trip would have been much preferable to the 16 hour ferry crossing. The operator had arranged for most of our luggage to be sent as cargo and all we had to carry onboard was a backpack or overnight bag. That was a very good idea.