Norway - Currency?

[lankeela]

Going for a long weekend to Norway in August (near border with Sweden) and wondered what is best thing to do about currency - should I change some into Norwegian Krone before I go? Any advice?

[10ClarionSt]

Take plenty, plenty, plenty of money! Very expensive in Norway. They're not in the Eu yer know. A sign of what it will be like here if the nob with the gob has his way in October. Sorry, I'm no expert but Simon Calder on the BBC reckons before travelling anywhere, always get your currency before you leave. He said that on telly last week.

[vetuste_ennemi]

It's a while since I've had a holiday, but I always used to get money from ATMs using my Nationwide credit card, Lankeela. Nationwide didn't have the surcharge other credit providers had on foreign transactions, and we know that often extortionate commissions are imposed by bureaux de change. Whether the Nationwide visa card is still that generous I don't know.

[Buenchico]

The Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries is behind the VisitNorway.com website. (i.e. the information there is 'official').

This page gives advice about money in Norway:
https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/currency-and-prices/

Reading through that, it would seem sensible to take some Norwegian Kroner with you.

[lankeela]

Thanks all, next question my mobile is with 02 - will it cost me to use it in Norway?

[Buenchico]

Although Norway isn't in the EU, it's in the EEA and therefore covered by the EU Roaming Regulation 2012 No 531/2012.

That means that, by law, you must be charged exactly the same to use your mobile phone in Norway (or any other EU/EEA country) as you are in the UK.

That might change after a 'no deal' Brexit (possibly taking UK phone users back to the days when massive roaming charges were applied by some service providers to calls made from outside the UK) but it will still apply in August.

[puzzled54]

I always get a small amount of currency before I go anywhere, but mostly use a debit or credit card that doesn’t charge any fees while I’m there

[LadyCG]

Lankeela, we've got a pre-loadable Revolut Card which doesn't charge any commission or exchange rate fees. We've used it in Iceland, the US, Greece and Germany and it's saved us a fortune. Every time we use it abroad we get an instant alert on our phone to tell us what the transaction cost in GBP and what we've got left on the card.

You can transfer money on or off the card in an instant via the app and you can take a certain amount daily out of ATMs free of charge.

It really has saved us loads.

[waterboatman]

Morning LCG. That's a cracking idea!

[LadyCG]

Lots of our friends have them now, WBM.

[waterboatman]

I could have done with something like that in the '60's and 70's!

[lankeela]

Thanks all - but now wondering what the removed answers were!

[Buenchico]

The removed answers were almost certainly spammers appending irrelevant links to this thread. (Google ranks websites partly on the number of links which there are to them across the internet. So 'search engine optimisation' services pay people to put links on loads of different sites, in the hope of pushing those links further up Google's rankings).

Based upon the vast number of such posts I've deleted in the past, the missing posts probably contained links to something like a limousine hire service in Detroit or a car mechanic's business in
Sydney.

[Stoobs]

Norway, like Sweden, is virtually cashless. You can pay for almost anything with a contactless card. Take a small amount of Crowns.