Public Service Announcement:

In my 2024 trip report about our trip to Copenhagen, Bergen, Oslo and Stockholm, I reported that we had had a good experience with the Oslo Pass. I also emphasized, though, that unlike the Copenhagen Card, the Oslo Pass did NOT cover train transport from Oslo Airport (OSL). Well, I just saw that this year's 2025 edition now DOES include Vy train transport between the city and OSL.
*The Pass does not include transportation with Flytoget or Flybussen, two supposedly speedier transport options, but believe me, not by much. The Vy trains are fast enough.

How to Buy:
1. You can buy the card online by downloading the Oslo Pass App
2. You can buy the card at Oslo Pass sales points

There is a caveat, though, for the Senior Discount Price, the discount that had made the Oslo Pass a steal for we two old persons. Like last year, you must appear in person at a sales point with proof of age. If you are over 67, congratulations! There are similar conditions for other discounts, most of which are listed on this page.

We easily bought ours in person at the Oslo Visitor Centre in Oslo's Central Train Station as soon as the office opened. But buying it within Oslo if you want to use the pass for transport from the OSL airport doesn't work. Supposedly, from May until September, you can also buy it at OSL's tourist information area in OSL's Arrivals area. The OSL map I found seems to show that this office is right near some of the food vendors close to the Arrivals exit.

My husband and I laughed that had our airport transportation fare been paid for last year at the airport, one of our missteps would have been a non-issue. Then again, because the pass comes in 24-, 48-, and 72-hour lengths only, we would have had to buy both a 72- and a 24- hr pass to make our itinerary work with it, and perhaps just having one-way paid would have been enough. No matter what, as with the Copenhagen Card, the Oslo Pass covered so much that we could do that delightful "on a whim" touring that makes travel fun.

Happy Planning!
AZ

Thank you, AZ! This is timely info - I was just thinking of posing a question about purchasing city passes for our upcoming trip. I had come to the conclusion that the best city pass deals were Copenhagen’s and maybe Bergen’s, and the worst Stockholm’s. Oslo fell in between, up until this news of yours.

I’m still torn about purchasing city cards vs pre-booking times for some of Scandinavia’s most popular sites. Sometimes I feel that my urgency re reserving time slots ahead is merely driven by last year’s trip through Italy, where advance tickets were an absolute must in most places we wanted to see.

I haven’t found a process by which these two can be combined, eg. a city pass holder wanting to reserve a particular time slot for an entry. An example from the Copenhagen Card site re: Rosenborg Castle: “PLEASE NOTE: Your COPENHAGEN CARD needs to be scanned at the ticket office upon arrival at the castle, where your card will be exchanged for a valid, timed entrance ticket. Therefore we suggest you arrive with plenty of time, and expect waiting time in busy periods. It is not possible to pre-book online.”

I still might need to begin a separate thread asking folks for their lists of attractions in the Scandinavian cities that would be best to have time slots reserved ahead of time…

dknudsen--Italy. I hear you. My mind flips back 30 years when my husband and I took our little girls to Florence. Pre fast internet. I read a zillion books and articles on how to pre-buy or reserve and studiously nabbed spaces everywhere (my girls refer to that trip as the "Staircase, Gelato, Art, Gelato, Staircase, Gelato, Art" adventure). It seemed that for decades every one of our multiples dips into Italy demanded fought-for reservations of some type and we always felt we had to fight for our inches in lines.

Not the case on our Scandinavia trip. Well, let me clarify that statement. Our DIY NIN segments were a pre-bought thing, as were our city-to-city flights, and of course I made a few restaurant reservations in Stockholm that were not needed and pre-bought our Midsummer Eve Skansen tix that were not needed, but overall, we just did not have to reserve anything else. I did fret that we would not land the reserved Munch tix Oslo Pass allotment, but we zipped in before opening and if that was a potential problem, it sure was solved easily.

Time of year? Maybe. We were there June 11 through June 24. And just as I hinted at above, we hit our most desired places early.

I probably should add the Oslo Pass update to the trip report. I myself know better than to trust information on older trips, but I probably would have trusted a 2024 report.