Longyearbyen Lodges - Reviews and Rates

Tuesday afternoon I boarded the Prince Albert II which would be my home for the next 10 days. And what a home! I had, of course, booked the most economical cabin. The pictures on the website looked nice but I've been fooled by that before so I was pleasantly surprised and found myself giggling while exploring my deluxe (by my standards) cabin: ...

A very nice seagull...standing on the balcony of our Norwegian and Danish friends, Hilde and Sigve. They even liked to eat from their hands (what Bea checked personally).

We had a sleep in, getting up at 8.30am and had breakfast at the hotel. We then packed our bags and checked out at 11am and put our bags in storage until the bus was to pick us up at 1pm to take us to the airport. Walked down the main street and bought some souvenirs and visited a skin shop that had bear, seal and fox furs and clothes made from ...

We got up at 7.30 and had breakfast at the hotel then were picked up by the tour company for our dogsledding trip at 9.30am. Driven to tour company office where we changed into snow suits and then drove on to kennels. Harnessed dogs and attached them to the sled then we were off, one driving the other as a passenger in the sled. After a few bump...

For the first part of our trip, Em and I parted ways, she went off to the south of France to visit her Dad, while I went to the far north to check out the Arctic in Summer. I have put some of the photos I took on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/markjenner /sets/72157601064361661/ The flight up there was via Oslo, we landed there at about 8:...

For the remaining few days i stayed closer to Longyearbyen. Taking 2 day-hike into Longyearbyen glacier. This involved getting wet feet when crossing the river and when i have wet feet which become sweaty from all the walking, my socks really do stink. Which was not appreciated by fellow campers in the kitchen. I was also lucky enough to meet tw...