Your day, step by step
08:30
Tender ashore. Book a fjord boat at the tourist information building beside the pier if you have not booked online.
09:00
Walk up the riverside path beside the Storfossen waterfall to the Norwegian Fjord Centre.
09:30
Norwegian Fjord Centre: exhibitions on how the fjord formed and on the fjord farms. Allow an hour.
10:45
Catch the next hourly hop-on bus at the Fjord Centre stop up to Flydalsjuvet for the classic view down the fjord. Note the times of buses back down.
12:00
Bus back down to the village. Lunch, for example at Brasserie Posten by the fjord.
13:30
75-minute fjord boat past the Seven Sisters, the Suitor and the Skageflå farm.
15:00
Last walk around the village and the church on the slope above it.
16:00
Join the tender queue, 90 minutes before all-aboard.
- Latest you can leave Geiranger village centre (tender pier)16:00
Where to leave from, and when
on foot bus, train, boat taxiPins show when to leave each place. Lines: route back to your ship.
Going further? Leave by these times
- Geiranger village centre (tender pier)Walk about 5 min to the tender pier, then the tender queue16:00
- Flydalsjuvet viewpointHourly hop-on bus down to the cruise terminal, then the tender queue14:30
- Westerås farmHourly hop-on bus down to the cruise terminal, then the tender queue14:30
- Norwegian Fjord CentreWalk down the Storfossen path (up to 60 min), then the tender queue15:00
- Storseterfossen waterfall (walking back via Westerås)About 40 min down to Westerås and about 75 min on foot to the village, then the tender queue14:05
Where people get Geiranger wrong
Missing the hourly bus down from Flydalsjuvet or Westerås and reaching the tender queue too late.
Built from our Geiranger guide, checked against 18 official sources (October 2026). Nothing here is guessed. Read the full guide or see the sources.
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