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A QUESTION about picking up car rentals in Molde: Do you have to take a taxi to the airport? Or do some of the Molde car rental companies offer a pickup service at the cruise dock? Thanks!

By the way, here's what we decided to do: RENT a car! NorwaysBest confirmed that they don't have an excursion that does both the Nærøyfjord and Borgund Stave Church. They also don't offer the ability to build a custom tour for that. Also, they don't have a bus to Borgund, or a taxi, or a private transfer tours that would do that. So the phone call nailed down what they don't do. Which, frankly, was VERY helpful in making plans. What they did suggest was renting my own car. And as it turns out ... Perfect! Fjord cruise from Flåm to Gudvangen, taxi from Gudvagen to Flåm, rent a car in Flåm, drive to the stave church and return in plenty of time (fingers crossed) to make the 1800 departure. Why take the taxi back to Flåm and not the NorwaysBest shuttle bus? Of course, the return shuttle bus is already fully booked. 🙂 Car rental is right there near the dock: FlåmCarRental Taxi was also easy to book: FlåmTravel Hope this helps!

Thanks Kaisatsu! I finally reached norwaysbest.com by telephone (+47 57 63 14 00) The person who answered the phone suggested that instead of renting a taxi, that I rent a car instead. Good idea, I hadn't even thought of that. But the person also gave me three phone numbers for arranging taxis ... Taxi companies in Flam: +47 40887385 +47 57633400 (Aurland Taxi) +47 40859476 I'm not going to contact them (at least not yet). As someone said, taxi vs rental car would be really expensive. So I'm gonna try that first. Thanks again Kaisatsu!

I'm trying to get from Flam to the Borgund Stave Church. May 2. Trip, wait while we tour the church, then return. Has anyone used GetTransfer in Flam? gettransfer.com Also, is Aurland Taxi the only taxi service in Flam? (I finally found the web site https://tts.as/bestill-drosje/aurland/ but I can't figure out how to use it). Any other suggestions? Thanks!

I'm getting the same error. Off by one day. In my case it's the MSC Euribia. My itinerary says we stop at Flam on May 2, but the listing shows May 1. Everything else is correct. Arrival Departure Duration Previous Port Next Port everything. Just the date. https://www.flamport.no/arrival-list

Well this is really annoying. We searched and searched and finally found our Best-For-Us Fjords Cruise, covering both of the two UNESCO fjords that are closing soon ... Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord stopping in Flåm, Hellesylt and Geiranger. (YC class in the MSC Euribia). Booked it. (Hellesylt and Geiranger are very close. Hellesylt was only a one-hour touch-and-go; most of the port time was in Geiranger.) Today we learned that MSC dropped Geiranger from the itinerary completely! What that *probably* means is that the ship won't sail down the beautiful eastern arm of Geirangerfjord. I don't care about docking in the port of Geiranger, but sailing down that arm of the fjord is (to me) a big deal. The whole point to this cruise was to hit both of these two UNESCO fjords. Not *almost* go to these fjords. Of course, there's no way to confirm where the captain plans to sail. (Heck, they haven't even explained *why* they changed the itinerary.) Has anyone had this type of sudden itinerary change? I can't imagine that there's any recourse. I'm sure I could cancel, but I'm equally sure that MSC wouldn't give me a refund. I'm guessing that this means I'll hire onto an "excursion" to take a ferry or tour-boat from Hellesylt to Geiranger, and bus back to port. Anyone have suggestions?

Thanks for the suggestion ... I'll definitely track them down. The itinerary (MSC Euribia May 2) says that the ship arrives in Flam at 0800, and departs at 1800. In the mythical world of math, ten hours *should* be enough to take a 2 hour boat ride and a three hour stave church drive. But in the real world of cruise math, we all know that 0800 to 1800 isn't actually ten hours. I'm betting that the humans at norwaysbest.com might be better at estimating actual tour time and how to fit it into that time window.

Question about a shore excursion in Flaam. May 2, '24. Specifically, I want to do two things: 1. Fjord boat cruise from Flåm, through Nærøyfjord, into Gudvangen then return to Flåm through the tunnel. 2. Drive to the Borgund Stave Church, tour it, then come straight back (no railway, no Stegastein viewpoint, no Snowy Road, just Borgund and back). Does anyone know of a shore excursion that covers those two itinerary items, or is there a way in Flaam to develop a custom excursion? Thanks!

Thanks EM. Sad result. But good to know. Indeed I found the very tiny map on the MSC website and cruisetimetables, and a zoomable map with a few more details on cruisemapper. *Your* answer was the most helpful. If they take the left-hand fork going into Flaam, that's Aurlandsfjord (Nærøyfjord is the right-hand fork). So about the MSCforME app ... what *does* it show while on board? Does it show menus, or events, or any other daily news? Again, thanks!

I can't find anyplace on the MSC website where it shows a detailed route map of where the ship is expected to be traveling. Do the detailed routes show up on the "MSC for Me" app, while on-board, during transit? I would love to get a detailed route ahead of time. But maybe the app will at least show me where I *am*? In a related question, when the port-of-call is Flåm, does the ship go down the famous Nærøyfjord? Or do you have to take an "excursion" to get over to Nærøyfjord? Thanks!