We visited Oslo as a party of 2 adults during October half term, due to being able to travel quite easily as fully vaccinated travellers. It was our first holiday after our daughter went to university this autumn. We were visiting to pre-celebrate my 55th birthday and had managed to book 2 free tickets for the grand opening of Munch Museet on the Saturday night.
The accommodation is on 5th floor of a luxury apartment complex - Munch Brygge, which has an open plan type of style. With a cosy warmth and homely perspective, it has a fabric chesterfield chair / poof set and 2 seater sofa, next to a large well-insulated window that looks onto the garden area of the 152 red brick angled apartment complex and the upper floors of Munch, where visitors enjoy the views from 12th floor sky room. The appliances are all very modern and high quality - cooker, washing machine, bathroom basin etc. With great design, such as the doors on the wet room that fold inwards to provide more space. The bedroom is in an alcove with a comfy double bed, blue wardrobes either side, single duvets with white linen from Ikea and window shutters to provide that privacy.
AC acted as the co-host and he allowed us to check in the accommodation ½ hour earlier. We flew into Oslo Gardermoen airport where we took the Flytoget airport express train to Oslo Sentralstasjon – 204kn one way. It was only a 2 stop journey. In the station we picked up the key tabs from Deli De Luca using a code system with the staff. Then a short walk to the apartment.
The description - walk everywhere - is definitely a viable option in this part of the green city of Europe.
Saturday we enjoyed the autumn sunshine walking along parts of havnepromenaden, to Vippa food court, where we enjoyed mixed grill from the Marrakech stall and beer from the bar whilst watching the sunset on the Fjord islands in the background. At night it was just a few minutes to Munch, where we were able to experience fully the world’s largest museum of a single artist and buy souvenirs from the museum shop.
Sunday we walked to Radhusbrygge 3, where we took an Oslofjord trip on the Helena ship, which although cloudy provided colour in the form of the red, green, and yellow summer cottages on the islands. We walked back through the grounds of Akershus Festning, which was nice to experience some of the older buildings of Oslo.
Monday morning was a short walk to Sukkerbiten to enjoy a wood floating sauna and a dip into the 10C fjord. In the afternoon, although a bit wet, we walked to Ekebergparken, following a path by the island with the Santa statue. Here you can see what influenced the painting of the scream. As well as sculptures like Dilemma and Walking Woman.
Tuesday we walked to Astrup Fearnley Museum, where we enjoyed Sissel Tolaas’s exhibition about the influence of smell. Thereafter, enjoying fish and chips and beer in the sunshine at Jarmann Gastropub in Aker Brygge, whilst watching the locals catch their commute home by ferry to the islands. In the evening, we had a walk out to see the night sky of the Deloitte building in Barcode and Akrobaten Bru.

AC kindly allowed a late check out on Wednesday at 3pm, due to nobody moving in that day. This enabled us to finish off sightseeing with a walk up Oslo Opera House and down to Sorenga seawater pool . As well as getting last souvenirs from Munch and a takeout sandwich from the various coffee outlets in Sentralstasjon.
Whilst Oslo can be an expensive place to visit in terms of eating out, having the Kiwi supermarket and small store of Joker on Dronning Eufemias Gate nearby you can eat and drink within the apartment. (Kiwi is not open Sunday and Joker can’t serve alcohol on Sunday). Even at this time of year, you can sit on the apartment balcony with views to the left of the square and the autumnal yellow foliage of Ekebergparken in the background. At night the square is lit up with individual snowflake images on the floor, complementing the grey apartments.
Bjørvika is known for its striking contemporary architecture, such as the Barcode and in this affluent area there are restaurants like Pink Fish, coffee shops like Godt Brod and Apent Bakeri, which you can take out things like carrot cake and Skolebrod. AS well as high end shops to browse/purchase such as Norwegian Rain Oslobukta Ambush store and Holzweiler Platz.
In addition the accommodation has a roof terrace on 8th floor with green deck furniture, shrubs, and trees, with great views of the Opera house, the Oslofjord, and Munch.

We would definitely recommend staying in this apartment and this area of the city. Thank you Slovi and AC for sharing your home with us; enabling us to have fond memories of our time in Norway.
We have our photos, Munch poster, and an introduction to Edvard Munch book to keep those recollections lingering.