The City
Svalbard Church
Svalbard Church located in Longyearbyen, is the world’s northernmost church.
The North Pole Expedition Museum
The museum recounts the heroic efforts made by pioneers to reach the North Pole at the turn of the last century.
Svalbard Museum
A museum of natural and cultural history. We aim to provide broad and comprehensive knowledge about Svalbard’s 400-year long history, as well as present the natural resources that are the basis for all life in the archipelago.
Nordover
Welcome to the world’s northernmost art Centre in the middle of Longyearbyen! We recommend their quiet and peaceful café.
Café Huskies
Enjoy coffee and cake in the company of fluffy huskies!
Water
It’s good to bring water with you on your trips. Bring a thermos so it won’t freeze!
Weather
Check the weather forecast when you are about to pack. It is hard to tell in advance if it is going to be -20°C or -5°C.
Transactions
Svalbard is exempt from VAT and all goods are tax-free. Please pay by card as there are no banks or ATMs in Svalbard.
Shoes
Longyearbyen residents have a tradition of taking off their shoes when entering most buildings in town. Many times, you will walk around in your socks as most businesses have shoe racks inside the doors, and some have slippers for you to wear.
Driver’s license
To drive a snowmobile on Svalbard, you must have a driver’s license for passenger car/class B. The driver’s license must have been issued in a country that is a party to the Geneva Convention of 1949 or the Vienna Convention of 1968 on road traffic. Digital certificate is only valid if it is issued in Norway.
Stay within the city boundaries
Do not leave the settlements without a suitable gun, and experience in using it.
What to wear
The two main words are layers and wool.
Airport shuttle
You will receive a voucher from your head of delegation and will travel by ordinary transfer to the airport. This voucher must be printed out before arriving at Longyearbyen airport. And handed to the driver when entering the bus. The airport shuttle stops at all hotels.
Check the travel page to see if your flight has an arranged pick up.
Dress code
There is no dress code. For outdoors; layers and wool and for indoors whatever you are comfortable in. Some dress up for dinner, some do not.
What is included in the price?
Breakfast: all days you are booked in a hotel
Lunch: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday
Dinner: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
The Adventure Day on Wednesday
Opportunities for training
Fitness room
Svalbardhallen, open every day, ticket 125 NOK.
Swimming pool
Open Sunday and Wednesday.
Alpine course
Open Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays from 17.00-20.00.
Cross country
Light trail from the church to Huset, available all times.
Floating sauna
For rent by the sea by the harbor, rental for max 12 persons.
Skiis
Since the alpine course is short: If in doubt, bring your shorter skies preferably with shorter radius. The snow in Svalbard is very dry and whipped by the wind and therefore extremely fine grained, almost like white concrete. The glide is very sluggish. When waxing your skies take the hardest wax you can find. Unless you’ll have one of these random warm periods, check the forecast!
There is no ski room or ski lockers in the hotel. There will be a container outside the Culture house where you can store your skis. There will also be a small area in the culture house to wax your skis.
