(Tromso) Marianne’s Fjord, Whale, Eagle and Wildlife Photography Tour

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Costs: 950 NOK
Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
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The tour was supposed to start at 9. She wasn't there. Tried calling her and couldn't contact her. Went to tourist office and realized that she changed the time to 10 am already because of the day shift. But did NOT coordinate with the tourist office that handles their booking. We woke up early just for this and have to wait another hour for her to show up (and she was a few minutes late even then)!!!! What we got was just an apology that doesn't even sound sincere.

She brought us around the Fjord and most of the time she will tell us to go down and take photo. She most often doesn't even go down from her van. There is little info that she shares or talks about.

Pros:
- Really good photo stops
- We saw Whales in the Fjord (lucky!). She was trying to look out during the drive.

Basically skip this tour, waste of your time, you will prolly end up better by just renting a car and driving around the fjords and taking picture on your own, I'm sure there are a lot of stops that you will see and you won't get rushed as it's only 4 hours! The whole point of a tour is sharing info/history/stories and photography tour for tips on good photography but none or so little of that happened in this tour! :( :( Considering that tours in Tromso are NOT that cheap. This is NOT worth your time, go do something else.














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