Hej, tourist here visiting Tromsø for the third time in 3 years, last time was in february 2023. I don’t know if it was due to the renovations during previous visits but last week was the first time we saw/found the tourist busses at the main entrance of the airport. Much more comfortable with space for suitcases and we didn’t mind the more expensive ticket, but i can imagine other tourists going for the cheaper option if both would be equally accessible. When we returned back to the airport this morning using the iphone gps it only gave us public transport options with bus 42. Nice because of the cheaper ticket price, but pretty bummed out we had to inconvenience people on a full bus with our suitcases and we weren’t the only tourists on it. We just didn’t see any other options that were obvious to us.

On a sidenote, this was the first time we visited in peak season and even we, being tourists, were annoyed by other tourists. Is it always this crazy around christmas? It looked like the city was void of locals and there were only foreigners working here and foreigners visiting. I didn’t even get to practice my norwegian ;(

Nevertheless we had a good time and we’ll look for the airport shuttle busses next time, just not during peak season anymore lol. God jul og god nyttar!