• 5 Dinner (D)
• 9 Breakfast (B)

• Helsinki: Wander through the aromatic stalls of a traditional food market with your Local Expert and sample local produce, like liquorice or smoked reindeer.

• Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.

Insight Vacations

• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• Business class coach with extended leg room, and cruise travel
• Premium regional accommodation

Meet your fellow travellers over a welcome dinner in Helsinki, with wine and an introduction to the Northern Capitals journey. It is a hosted opportunity to get acquainted with the group and hear about the experiences ahead.

Finland’s capital provides the setting for the first shared evening. Conversation around the table offers a relaxed introduction to the people travelling with you through Scandinavia.

Explore Helsinki with a Local Expert and discover the waterfront character of Finland’s capital. At a traditional food market, wander among aromatic stalls and sample local produce, which may include liquorice or smoked reindeer.

The market offers a close-up look at Finnish tastes, while the surrounding harbour city reflects Helsinki’s reputation for contemporary design. This guided experience combines an introduction to the city with flavours rooted in local food traditions.

Cruise the Baltic Sea between Helsinki and Stockholm aboard an overnight ship, with an A-Class sea-view cabin. Watch the coastline recede and enjoy dinner on board as the northern sun lingers near the horizon.

The voyage makes the crossing an experience in its own right: open-water views, changing light and a shared meal connect the two Nordic capitals. Your cabin offers a private place to take in the seascape during the journey.

Explore Stockholm with a Local Expert, from the historic streets of Gamla Stan to its civic landmarks. See Stockholm Cathedral and the Royal Palace, and visit Stockholm City Hall, where the Blue Hall hosts the Nobel Prize banquet.

Inside City Hall, admire the gold-leaf mosaics of the Golden Hall, depicting Swedish history and mythology. Across the harbour, Gamla Stan’s narrow streets reveal the medieval core of a capital spread across 14 islands.

Choose a visit to ABBA The Museum in Stockholm as your included Insight Choice experience. Explore the group’s costumes and memorabilia, hear stories behind their international success, and try interactive exhibits that invite you to sing, mix music or appear on stage with virtual versions of the band.

The museum celebrates the Swedish pop group whose recordings became familiar around the world. Its hands-on displays offer a playful way to engage with ABBA’s music and performance history.

Choose to explore the Spirit Museum on Stockholm’s Djurgården island as your included Insight Choice experience. Its exhibitions examine Sweden’s relationship with alcohol through drinking customs, cultural history and contemporary art.

Discover how attitudes and traditions have changed, including the emergence of modern craft distilling. This alternative to ABBA The Museum offers a distinctive perspective on Swedish social life, using creative displays to approach a subject with a complex place in the country’s culture.

Discover Oslo with a Local Expert, viewing the Royal Palace and Akershus fortress before exploring the city centre. See Karl Johans gate and the Stortinget parliament building, and walk around the Oslo Opera House on the Bjørvika waterfront.

The route reveals contrasts in Norway’s capital: a medieval stronghold overlooking the harbour, 19th-century royal and parliamentary landmarks, and former docklands remade as a cultural district. The Opera House’s angular form is a striking expression of contemporary Oslo.

Walk through Frogner Park in Oslo to see Gustav Vigeland’s permanent sculpture installation. More than 200 bronze and granite figures occupy its bridges, terraces and Monolith plateau, giving visitors space to observe the works from different perspectives.

Vigeland’s sculptures portray people at different stages of life, often in expressive groups and poses. Set within landscaped parkland, the installation is both an outdoor gallery and a public gathering place, with art woven into the everyday life of the city.

Explore Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen’s pleasure garden, opened in 1843 beside the city’s central station. Walk its landscaped paths among pavilions, theatres, restaurants and historic rides, taking in a place long enjoyed by Copenhageners and visitors alike.

Tivoli’s appeal lies in its blend of gardens, entertainment and tradition. Look for its wooden roller coaster, one of the world’s oldest still operating, which retains a brakeman on board. The visit offers a glimpse of a distinctive Danish leisure landmark.

Explore Copenhagen with a Local Expert, seeing the Little Mermaid on the harbourfront, Rosenborg Castle and Amalienborg Palace. Walk beside the colourful buildings of Nyhavn, and visit Christiansborg Palace to admire its regal interiors, tapestries and furnishings.

These landmarks reveal different sides of Denmark’s capital, from royal residences to the lively 17th-century waterfront. Christiansborg is also the seat of the Danish parliament, giving its richly decorated rooms a connection to the country’s continuing civic life.

Dine at a Cofoco Group restaurant in Copenhagen for a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® experience centred on sustainable ingredients. Share a concluding dinner with your fellow travellers while discovering an approach to dining that aims to reduce food waste.

The restaurant group’s work promotes more responsible consumption and production, connecting the meal to a wider effort to change food practices. It is an opportunity to enjoy Copenhagen’s dining culture while supporting an initiative aligned with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12.

Cruise across the Baltic Sea to Tallinn on an optional excursion from Helsinki. Take in views from Toompea Hill and explore the Estonian capital’s historic centre, including its market square, Town Hall and a centuries-old pharmacy.

Tallinn’s preserved streets and medieval landmarks offer a striking contrast to Helsinki’s modern waterfront. There is also time to browse local shops, including those selling amber and silver jewellery. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Visit Holmenkollen, Oslo’s landmark ski-jumping venue, on an optional excursion. See the striking structure associated with Norway’s long tradition of winter sport and the hillside setting that makes it a recognisable feature of the capital.

Skiing has a prominent place in Norwegian culture, and Holmenkollen gives that heritage a dramatic architectural expression. The visit offers a different perspective on Oslo beyond its central streets and waterfront. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Step aboard the polar ship Fram on an optional Oslo visit and discover the vessel built to withstand ice-bound expeditions. Explore the ship and learn about the lives of Norway’s Arctic explorers and the conditions they faced far from home.

Fram’s wooden hull was designed for journeys into polar waters, making the ship a tangible link to an era of ambitious exploration. Seeing it up close brings the scale and practical demands of those voyages into focus. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.