A cabin along a fjord in Norway for holidays

Maybe it is time for you to plan your next holidays right? Norway is a country at you have always think about visiting, but where starting South/ North? Everything has to be seen there. Let’s start by the North, with a cabin along a fjord!

Discovering the special light in Northern Norway

Starting by the North is an interesting choice because you have not only sceneries and wildlife, you have also 2 experiences to live: polar night or midnight sun. So it doesn’t matter at you plan to come by summer or by winter! For sure, it will be unique!

And when we talk about polar night, we think obviously about Northern Lights too. That’s why we offer tours with our second company Arctic Booking : everything is ready for you in the same place!

During that season, dark lights offer a special cosy mood where everyone wants to enjoy snow, northern lights, fireplace / plaid and coffee. Actually, there is a Swedish word to describe this mood, this one is popular all over the world: HYGGE. And in Norway, the translation is KOSE (pronunciation is “kousse”). We use a lot the expression “Kos deg” which means in a way: enjoy it…

Prefer a cabin along a fjord than an hotel in a city center: Norway is Nature not building!

Beside, and in order to discover Norway, it is comfy to stay in a cosy cabine like the ones of Ersfjordbotn Brygge. This place is really close to Tromsø but on an another island called Kvaløya. It is only 25min by car from Airport to the village.

Kvaløya means Island of Whale, and it is true, there is, depending years, whales and orcas coming here from November to January. Apart from the fact that you can see orcas and whales, Kvaløya has so much to offer and to visit. In winter or in summer, it is crazy how much spots you can enjoy, how much animals you can meet, and Ersfjordbotn is one of them. Really famous to be on one hand, the closest and most beautiful fjord from Tromsø. And, on the other hand, one of the best northern lights spot!

So come and enjoy a cabin along a fjord like the Ersfjorden!

Holiday place to see Northern Lights close to Tromso

1st FACT: people who plan to come to Tromso to see Northern Lights use so much time to hunt the Green Lady without being sure to see something, without being sure to take any pictures of it. 2ND FACT: if you invest in a guide tour, you increase your chance. A LAST FACT: if you choose to stay out of Tromso, in a holiday place to see Northern Lights you will have the biggest chance ever. And so, Ersfjordbotn Brygge appears!

Ersfjordbotn Brygge is a company which enables people to stay in a cosy apartment not so far from Tromsø (25min) to enjoy many arctic activities like shooting Northern Lights, fishing, and so much more.

A cosy place to rest

Ok we know, Northern Norway is cold. Having a cosy appartement to enjoy to go back and forth as much as you want, is important. And stay calm, you can rent a car, request taxi, or take the city bus lines to move from the village to anywhere else.

Stay free, but stay cosy!

But the cherry on the cake is that you don’t need especially to move to see Northern Lights. Actually, the village of Ersfjordbotn is one of the best spot in the corner. Even if every Northern Light is different, most of the time, the Green Lady appears front of the fjord opening (Ersfjorden), and follow the fjord line to arrive up to Ersfjordbotn.

Thanks to that, you don’t have to go far from your holiday place to hunt, you just have to open the door and use your camera! Enjoy and come to the most well-known place to take pictures of Northern Lights.

After that, when you get bored because you will have too much pictures from here with the Aurora, you will be able to book a tour with our specialist, a photograph and local guide. He will be able to share some tips to upgrade your pics and to show you other really good spots around there.

Now you can dream about a comfy place to stay to meet the Green Lady, you know Ersfjordbotn Brygge!

Rent a boat for fishing in Norway : a fishing holiday package

Here, in Northern Norway, it is about struggling against cold waters and big amount of snow. But, it is also about midnight sun and billions of fishes! Thanks to midnights sun by spring and summer seasons, everyone here takes more time to enjoy outside activities like (shoveling!), top tour ski and fishing. For that last one, at Ersfjordbotn Brygge, we suggest you to rent a boat for discovering what means sea fishing in Norway! Our great fishing holiday package can include a genuine cabin called here Rorbu, and a boat to enjoy thousands hours of fishing experiences.

At only 20 minutes by boat to the sea, you can have the opportunity to visit those awesome coasts, and even to fish in deep water the biggest Cod and Halibut. You can really expect several kinds of fishes. From a Cod personal best to a land of a huge halibut, there is so many exciting moments to live.

From the coldest months of February and March for Skrei (biggest et tastiest cod) to the warmest months for halibut and many others, we are sure that once you taste a Norway sea fishing holiday, you will return year after year. So if you are like Norweagians with seawater in your veins, be ready for that, you should have patient and strong power to lift out some of them!

Why to choose to rent a boat for fishing holidays in Norway at Ersfjordbotn Brygge?

It is a fact that in Norway you can find thousand of cabins (rorbuer) including a renting boat for sea fishing holidays. But you will not find everytime all our great services provided at Ersfjordbotn Brygge.

A fishing package with a team at your disposal and a fishing room

First and foremost, when you take a sea fishing holiday package at Ersfjordbotn Brygge, you have at your disposal a team who can help you with tips to stay focus in good spots to fish. You have also a specific equipment to suit our arctic weathers and trips.

When you come back at the end of the day, Ersfjordbotn Brygge offers you the service to tank your boat until the next trip. You don’t take care of the boat, but only your fishes!

After that, you just have to carry your fish in the fishing room. This fishing room helps you to make the fillets. Ersfjordbotn Brygge offers you the service of putting them in vacuum bags before freezing them and sending them to your own place.

Ersfjordbotn Brygge offers you the best: Cod from your fjord’s trips to your home!

Many of our guests uses to come back every year to fill up their freezer for the all year: cheaper, better, and a high sentimental value.

Meet different species with guided day trips

It is also possible to ask a guide on board with you to find all best spots. As a real sea fishing destination in Northern Norway, guided tours by Ersfjordbotn Brygge can help you to save time. Tours are perfect to learn all our specific fishes available here, but also spots to find them in order to never get bored !

Remind you too that you can enjoy sea fishing all year long. Of course, the summer months are the prime season notably because of the midnight sun and days that never gets end. But, on the other hand, coming before, during and after the polar night can offer not only time to fish the best Cod ever: the Skrei Cod, but also time to enjoy visits and other outdoors adventures like whale safari, northern lights etc…

About fishing restrictions

Finally, contrary to Oslo area, Lindesnes to Swedish border, there is no restriction to fish in Northern Norway cods or other fishers. You are just limited in the amount of Skrei that you can fish.

Thanks to the Norwegian country restriction, this is now the WORLD MOST UNSPOILED TRAVEL AND SEA FISHING DESTINATION for fishing salmon for example. Actually, it is hard to fish salmon in the fjord, but you can find some of them between June and August. Our salmons are easier to land in our lakes in the surroundings.

A cabin as a perfect accommodation for fishing holidays, and transport in norway

Escape from your daily routine, and choose a cabin, a Rorbu here, with all comfort and equipments included. We can also provide you the transport from the Airport to our place. From 1 to 8 people, it is possible to enjoy the way to, and back, Ersfjord, with us.

So now, you understand more why choosing us for a sea fishing holidays’ package. This is the best place to rent a boat for fishing in Norway! For sure!

Discover a lifestyle along a fjord in Northern Norway

Actually, Ersfjordbotn Brygge is dedicated to people who want to enjoy our lifestyle along a fjord in an arctic place. Our village is quiet but perfect for enjoying midnight sun and northern lights. Surrounded by big mountains, you have plenty of solutions for experiencing outside activities like hiking, camping, skiing and fishing. Our company Arctic Booking is dedicated to them.

And yes, just front of, the Ersfjorden is waiting for you (full of Cod!). It is appealing you with that long straight way until the sea, and its unlimited horizon line. For a genuine holiday experience, there is nothing like staying IN a village where fishing is still an important part of lifestyle.

Ersfjordbotn brygge for sea fishing holidays

At only 20 minutes by boat to the sea, you can have the opportunity to visit those awesome coasts, and even to fish in deep water the biggest Cod. You can really expect several kinds of fishes. From a Cod personal best to a land of a huge halibut, there is so many exciting moments to live.

From the coldest months of February and March for Skrei (biggest et tastiest cod) to the warmest months for halibut and many others, we are sure that once you taste a Norway sea fishing holiday, you will return year after year. So if you are like Norweagians with seawater in your veins, be ready for that, you should have patient and strong power to lift out some of them!

Please leave us a comment or contact us for any questions about sea fishing holidays in Norway.

Rorbu and a boat for all your stay.

Kvaløya tour: one of the best activity in Northern Norway

In Northern Norway, the most well-known place to spend holidays is Tromsø. Actually, it is for real the best because you have plenty of choices to experience the Lapland, its culture and tradition, the Northern Lights and so many other things… Tromsø is an island really little that shelters only 70 000 people. So, everything you can experience here is not located on it, but around in the mainland and Kvaløya. That’s why we would like here to introduce you one of our best activity we offer: the Kvaløya Tour.

Ersfjordbotn Brygge is located at Ersfjordbotn, at only 25 minutes by car from Tromsø. The spot is really famous for its stunning view at the fjord by day, and like a perfect spot by night for Northern Lights.

Our company provides several activities to discover Northern Norway from the fjord to our fantastic summits! Have a look of those experiences in our dedicated website Arctic Booking.

Below, discover more specifically the activity which offer you opportunities to see the best of our Fjord Visit.

Kvaløya Tour: between mountains and fjords

With this Kvaløya Tour, you can see more the 5 different fjords. Crazy right?

We can’t imagine in Norway there is more than 50000 islands, and Kvaløya is the fifth biggest. Thanks to that, from the North to the South of it, you have thousand of spots to visit. Our minibus tour consists to focus on the best. Flat reliefs and clear water on one side, high mountains around a narrow fjord on others.

Of course we spend time to explain you everything. We make many stops to allow you to make as much pictures as you want. And most of the time, we have funny surprises, cute friends coming to welcome us!

Indeed, like Kvaløya is big, it is also fantastic for everyone to enjoy the nature, both human, animal and nature.

Kvaløya Tour to discover Northern Norway’s nature

As long as you stay curious you can have fun all the year long here in Northern Norway, with ou without snow, with or without sun, the surrounding is changing constantly. Every year you enjoy yourself to find again this or that.

Below, you can see on pictures, our arctic berries: cloudberry (in orange) and special blueberries (in dark purple). From the natural lupins to funny hairy stones on the beach, you can’t be bored!

Kvaløya Tour enables you to make new friends like polar animals!

Depending the season, there is also here on Kvaløya island a lot of opportunity to meet polar animals like humpback whale, dolphin, orca, sea-eagle, moose, reindeer, puffin and so many fishes!

To conclude, this island is a must-to-do to understand better Lapland and Northern Norway. It is so rich in history, and things to see and experience that you can’t avoid to spend times there!

From one of our Rorbu (cabin), it will be the best to go some times in the city, Tromsø, for a restaurant or cultural visit, but the best to stay here in Kvaløya.

Sleep here and visit it as soon as you can!

Julebord and Seminar soon at Ersfjordbotn Brygge permises

You were not ready for this FOR SURE, but here we are! As soon as possible we will be ready to offer you a special new service at Ersfjordbotn Brygge:

Permises to plan all your following events!

Sounds good, isn’t it? Imagine that: a place to organize seminar, julebord, meeting, birthday, wedding, confirmation and so much more!

Plan Julebord and every event at Ersfjordbotn Brygge all year long!

From January 1st to December 31st, Ersfjordbotn is one of the most beautiful spot around Tromsø. So, when you need to celebrate a special event like a Julebord, you need to think about a:

• Place easy and quickly to go to save time

• Beautiful surroundings to charm everyone before starting

• Partners used to organize and plan professionnel/private events

• Quiet spot to be able to make a bit of noise (following special rules of course! )

Ersfjordbotn Brygge is owned by a local and experienced man. He knows the best partners you need: catering, dj, taxi… Don’t worry about organizing your parties with a new partner, actually he is not a beginner!

Complete your seminar with outdoor activities and cabines to stay

Besides, if you want a special day/night with your guests, we offer, at Ersfjordbotn Brygge, not only permises but Rorbu to rent, Outdoor Activities to experience.

Discover them below and call us to plan from now onward your following Julebord, Seminar at 917.033.41.

Winter holidays in Tromsø: what is it about?

Jingle Bells Jingle Bells…, well well…stop, stop it now please! This is winter time since months here in Tromsø…We can’t speak about this season by starting at Christmas. Here, we consider the winter season when the snow and the polar night are coming. Discover our awesome landscapes, culture and wildlife, without any other color than the white of the snow and the blue of the sky. For that, you will definitely love our holidays’ place, Ersfjordbotn Brygge!

November Sunset from the Cable Car of Tromsø

Polar Night: such an experience of holidays

Most of the time, we start to prepare ourself to winter in October. We clean the garden, sort the garage, and put the spikes weals… Snow is coming! So, after autumn holidays, no potatoe in the vegetable garden, we are ready to ski with headlight! So join us since November, if you want to discover the polar night which start November 27th, 2020.

Don’t be afraid to live it, or sad for us to be forced every year to jump into the darkness: it is the coziest moment of the year. And please, don’t say it is dark 24h a day: IT IS NOT! You will see fantastic colors and lights. Plus, you will have time to see the Northern Lights easier, longer, and oftenly!

So plan your winter holidays in Tromsø before January 14th, 2021, to experience a life without sun rays…but green lights!

The Blue Light

So, now you know there is no dark day. There is some hours with brightness lighting up the white mountains and the flat and quiet fjords around. It is the most peaceful place in the world!

Ok we are not really objectives though! But for sure, what is stunning here, is the contrast between the summer and autumn colors and the winter and spring one, which is only the white! And then, you will see our unique BLUE LIGHT. This is a mix between the brightness, the blue sky and the white summits. This unique set has to be seen once in a lifetime.

Tromsø by day, with the moon and the blue light

With Ersfjordbotn Brygge, we are not only offering Northern Lights’ Chase, but also some activities by day to enjoy that Blue light. And since the brightness is between 10:00 and 15:00, we are scheduling our tour during that time.

Please take a look at them, different holidays’ experience are waiting for you like snowshoes, top tour ski, fjord cruise, fishing tour, fjord visit by minibus…

Kose = Cosy

As we said before, it is the coziest moment of the year! Imagine, norwegian people (in the north by the way) have spent 6 months outside: hiking, bicycling, gardening, sailing…So it is ok to calm down a bit, to spend more time with kids, family and friends in a warmful way. So, our Scandinavian winter lifestyle is “Koselig”. It means to put you in a cosy mood. For that, you need a plaid, a book, candles, a coffee (tea is ok also…!) and just relax.

Your winter holidays in Northern Norway can be also for you, the most relaxing time of the year. Discover for that our Rorbu to rent, in the most beautiful fjord close to Tromsø.

Outside activities by night with headlight

Our last trick is to ask a special tour outside by night with headlight. It is really common for us to continue to do sports even if it is dark outside.

A hiking trip with snowshoes for instance is bewitching when you just can heard every single step you do, deeper and deeper in the snow, lighted up by the moon and the city lights

Winter holidays in Tromsø is the northernmost vacation experience that you can live… Try it now with us!

Why choosing Norway to see the Northern Lights

Up to the Polar Circle, it is the easiest way to see Northern Lights. The more the north you are, the better. But our goal here, is not only to offer you a good answer about the Aurora but more to advise you some tips to enjoy all your holidays.

How is a Northern Lights Chase in Northern Norway?

Actually, here in Northern Norway, we have Northern Lights all year long. But, to see them, obviously, you need a clear sky and a dark night. And that this is not on a yearly basis! Summertime here, means also Midnight Sun which is the period where the sun does not go down. Because of that, from middle of April to end of August, there is too much light to see one Aurora in the sky.

What includes a Northern Lights tour with Ersfjordbotn Brygge?

So, if you plan to see the Northern Lights, Ersfjordbotn Brygge welcomes you in one of their Rorbu from September to March. For a night chase, you start at 18:30 with our guide and his mini bus which suits for max. 7 people. With a good local experience, he is able to chase depending the Northern Light activity and the weather forecast.

Between Finland border and the north of Ringvassøy Island, he is fixing your night’s schedule. That schedule includes a training to take pictures with your own camera because special equipment and settings are required like a tripod for example. Don’t miss to take one of yours if you have!

Our service includes also some other professional pictures taken by your guide. Pictures are shared some days after by email. Depending the chase, you can be back at your holiday place at midnight or later if it is necessary. Like it can be a bit cold outside, we plan for you some winter suits and a fireball. And then, as a local norwegian, you are able to stay some hours outside waiting for the magical phenomenon.

For sure, this is an unforgettable northern journey! The cherry on the cake is stories and tips shared by your guide. His passion for the Northern Lights is really not boring. With him, you reveal your child part that lies dormant in you! Emotions of a chase are just a training before your big meeting with the Green Lady.

Why choosing Northern Norway more than an another country?

In our days, there is not only one best place in the world to see Northern Lights since they have their own activity and movement around the upper part of the Globe. Don’t forget by the way, there is the same phenomenon in the South, named Aurora Australis. A place even colder for human life…

So, with some apps, you can follow the Northern Lights’ forecast: their movements, their strength (KP), their polarity (Bz). All that indexes are important to chase good. But as we said before, the weather forecast is also important. It is Nature, there is no button to push to switch them on…

Finally, you know now that you need t:

• Choose a good guide in a good company (like us!),

• Avoid the city lights

• in a place the northernmost you can!

Hidden gems are waiting for you in Northern Norway

Where up to the Polar Circle, would you enjoy Northern Lights easily then?

Your best option is definitely Northern Norway. Over there, there are so many hidden gems waiting to be explored, in an area that is absolutely stunning and like nothing you've ever seen. So don't miss out on the experience of your lifetime because you're too busy trying to cross an item off your bucket list!

Northern Norway is more and more famous as one of the best travelling experience

Don’t think only travelling to see Northern Lights, but also to visit and enjoy by day. With that, you optimize your holiday’s investment and you collect fantastic memories by day and luckily by night if the weather and the aurora's activity allows you to.

Indeed, our local place, Ersfjordbotn is known as one of the most beautiful fjord around Tromsø. Tromsø city is an island welcome tourists in hotel. Our place is the most cosy village for doing outside activity without the massive number of people starting their day from a same pick up point.

Besides, most of them are located in our island Kvaløya, next to Tromsø, at only 25 min by the road. But the best is to start from there, and save time, isn’t it?

A family friendly place to experience thousands of outside activities

Activities you can find here are most of the time outside’s ones: top tour ski, husky and reindeer sledding, fishing tour by boat with or without a guide, fjord visit by boat or by bus. Definitely it is a family friendly place where to enjoy together!

Don’t trust people who had heard that it is really cold and really dark!

One the one hand, concerning the darkness, even if it is the Polar night, you still have light. No sun rays but still lights. All our activities follow daylight to schedule them the best.

One the other hand, concerning the coldness: it is not here either! Thanks to the Gulf Stream which is protecting us since it follows the Atlantic current. So Lapland, Finland, Sweden and Norway’s inner lands are thoroughly colder! Our basic temperatures during winter are between -10 to -3°C by day and night… You can handle it easily for sure! Have a look on our specific post to prepare rightly your luggage.

To finish, we advise you also our second websites dedicated to Arctic activities and booking. You will find the Northern Lights Chase and all the others to do by day here in the same time. With that from now, you can plan all your holiday’s schedule!

What do you have to plan if you want to come in Tromsø in autumn?

What kind of autumn are you talking about? We hope, at Ersfjordbotn Brygge, you think about a european basic one, because here, up to the Polar Circle, autumn appears from August 15th to October 1 st! So, for a traditionnal autumn from end of September until December, there is a lot to experience, and you need to plan a bit to do the maximum you can!

Temperature and light in autumn in Northern Norway

Any case, our outside temperature change from up to 18°C to less than 10°C in the middle of august. But you can expect still, to have a nice weather with only some rainy days. By the way, as we use to say here:

There is no bad weather, only bad clothes!

So between August and December, here in Tromsø, you can expect a temperature between 9°C and 0°C. With that, it is not so freezing, you can stay outside and be active! Fortunalty for you, at Ersfjordbotn Brygge, we tailor-made a lot of outdoor activities and vacation homes to rent. With such packages, you don’t need to run from the fjord-side to the city center each morning! Just relax and enjoy yourself with our autumn / winter tours.

After the temperature, we can speak about a second important point here: the light. At the end of July, the Midnight Sun is finished. It means that the sun is going down the horizon line each night sooner and sooner. And then, in November, it will stay under the horizon line 24h per day, until January. This is the Polar Night.

So, if you have good clothes, and if you can manage to be outside, even if it is a low light, we have thousand ideas for you! Let’s see them below and what you have to plan to be amazed by our place.

10 activities to do around Tromsø in Autumn

When you tell about your visit to Northern Norway, for sure, you describe a country of thousand islands and reliefs. The best way to explain a scenery is to put a large part of sky to take a breathe of fresh air, surrounded by high mountains, and some large fjords. Everywhere you are you can experience some activities in nature, mountains or up to the water.

That’s why you can’t be bored here. Between a fjordtour by day in minibus to visit the corner, and by night to chase the northern lights with us, discover below our suggestions.

What to do in norwegian mountains at Kvaløya, our island?

Depending if you are coming early in autumn or not at Kvaløya island, you can’t see the same world! With or without snow, it is completely different. Without, you can hike in wet grounds, like Nåttmalsfjellet, Håtten or Buren. Those 3 mountains are our playgrounds all year long!

Håtten Summit

From Buren Summit

Nattmålsfjellet, called Klokka Ti here

So come with our guide up to the summits and discover our berries, our stories and tips & tricks!

When the snow appears we can do the same, with snowshoes and after, with a big amount of snow, we start finally, to do top tour ski…

What to do up to the water of Ersfjorden, our fjord?

Like we rent some Rorbu, you can live also like a fisherman, fishing the Gold of Norway: the cod, but not only. For that, you can go fishing with a guide, to enjoy the best spots, or you can drive on your own a rental boat. You will enjoy our fishing room on the way back, to save properly your fishes!

If you are not fond of fishing but still you want to experience a cruise, we organise also a 2-hours-tour by boat to cruise along our coast until the Norwegian Sea.

Call us and tell us your dreams, we can organize them together!

Our freshest offers are now online!

We hope our freshest offers through Arctic Booking and this website, appeal you to come or to come back again! Ersfjordbotn Brygge is not only a place to sleep but a real experience of arctic holidays.

Outdoor activities’ offers all year long

Since this summer 2020, we develop some news outdoor activities. In order to enjoy at its best the corner, and following the several kind of customers we can have here, the offers suit for everyone.

Indeed, it is possible to hike up to Kvaløya summits with snowshoes and top tour ski during snow time or without, for an hiking and guided tour.

If you are more fond of to be closest to the water, we provide now also different tours like a fishing guided tour, a fjord cruise by boat, a diving guided tour, or basic rental motorboat and jet ski to breathe the freezing air!

Last but not least, if you don’t want to be closed neither to the sky or to the water, you can be inside our country side, visiting by day, or chasing the northern lights, by mini-bus.

Take a real breath of fresh air

We have plenty of solutions to tailor your holidays, from Ersfjordbotn Brygge! Those family-friendly experiences allow you to discover the strong and powerful nature, this possibility of taking a real breath of fresh air!

“Stay active and curious is our TIP & TRICK to enjoy the most your arctic experiences from Ersfjordbotn Brygge. ”

Stay tuned, some new other adventures are coming soon… More news are still available on NEWS page.