Food and Drink on an Oslofjord Cruise

Most of these boats have a bar, you pay at it separately, and only one kind of departure puts a meal on the ticket. On a ninety-minute or two-hour cruise the bar is a coffee or a beer and a place to stand while the wind does its work on the deck. The evening buffet boat is a different proposition: there, the food is a large part of what you are buying, and the fjord is the room you eat it in.

Bar on boardOn most boats

Paid separatelyYes, everywhere

Meal on the ticketThe evening buffet boat

Bring your ownGenerally fine

Hot drinksThe usual reason people go below

BlanketsOn the open wooden boats

The bar on a city cruise

Coffee, beer, something warm in winter. It is not a catering operation and nobody pretends it is. What the bar actually does on a two-hour trip is give the saloon a reason to be sociable and give you somewhere to be when the open deck stops being fun, which happens about four minutes after you clear Akershus. The shape of the trip.

The evening buffet

One operator runs an evening boat off Rådhusbrygge 3 with a buffet included in the booking. That is the one departure in this catalogue where food is the point rather than a convenience, and it is also why comparing it with a ninety-minute sightseeing loop on the number alone makes no sense — you are buying dinner and a view of a lit city from the water. Evening departures.

Bringing your own

Generally unremarkable on a sightseeing boat, particularly the short ones. With children, a fifty-minute mini loop from Rådhusbrygge 3 — a taster rather than a fjord trip, 4.5 from about 597 reviews — is short enough that nobody needs feeding mid-fjord. On the two-hour trips a flask is a reasonable idea in winter. Cruising with children.

Insider tip

If you want the fjord and a proper meal on the same evening, do them separately: take a daylight cruise and eat ashore afterwards. Eating while the islands go past sounds better than it works, because the window seat and the plate are in different places.

The wooden ship, with a bar and blankets

Two hours from Rådhusbrygge 3 on a traditional wooden sailing ship, heated deck, blankets, a bar, and a Bygdøy ferry ticket included for a separate trip. 4.5 from about 6,150 reviews. Boarding is open and no seat is guaranteed, so arrive early.

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Frequently asked questions

Is there food on an Oslofjord cruise?

Most boats have a bar with drinks and something light, paid for separately. A meal is only on the ticket on the evening buffet departure from Rådhusbrygge 3. Evening cruises.

Can you drink alcohol on an Oslofjord cruise?

The boats with a bar serve it, and you pay at the bar. On the wooden sailing ship from Rådhusbrygge 3 there is a bar, a heated deck and blankets — though boarding is open and no seat is guaranteed. The wooden ships.

Can I bring my own food and drink?

On a sightseeing boat this is usually unremarkable, especially on the short trips. On the fifty-minute mini cruise from Rådhusbrygge 3 — a taster rather than a fjord trip — it barely arises. What to expect on board.