While they say it’s a discovery tour, most of the time is spent in the four venues which are outside of the main City Center. I liked the tour, but it was more like a 2nd or 3rd day event. There is a lot of time allotted to the ship museums; one about the race to the North and South Pole, and the interior of a ship. Interesting and informative and very well done, but very esoteric for a one day allotment of your day exposure and certainly not the stature Tower of London or the Louvre museum, the Met or Smithsonian, either. The other museum was about Viking ships used as burial sites, but not nearly as amazing as the pyramids and very decomposed. The ski jump and cross country venue was hopping in January, but I don’t know what it would be like in June. The sculpture park was interesting but repetitive and not of a world renown artist such as Michelangelo or Rodin. I had never heard of the artist and can’t remember his name now. They didn’t include him in my Art History classes in college. It had a somewhat overbearing sexual connotation that was a bit much, even for a guy. The tour doesn’t define Oslo, except for maybe the ski jump. But not a waste of time, just not what you would go to on the first day, in my opinion. I struggled greatly with the public transportation system. The T bahn, or Metro is better than the buses or trams to figure out, but very anxiety provoking with most of the stops in the places you’d want to go in and around the city, transfer hubs to other lines going both ways. Nothing as easy LONDON or DC or New York to figure out. So I wouldn’t even try to figure that out unless you studied it way in advance and even then, it is like a maze. The cabs and Ubers are a major investment for very short distances, but may be a time saver. I think I would stick near the Central Train Station and take the free walking tour at 10:00 am daily to get an orientation and do some homework on what else interests you, all close to each other. There are a ton of venues that define Oslo more than ship museums for a good overview of the City. The Munch museum, Nobel Prize venue, the National Opera to name a few would be much more memorable for a one-day exposure to a very fascinating city, unlike any I have been to before. Summer is packed with tourists and very expensive but winter has very little daylight but a very nice visit if you like a true winter, and less crowded and pretty affordable, really. Use your time wisely, but choose the tour if you don’t have a clue about the city and don’t want to get lost or filled with anxiety. There aren’t a plethora of choices, either. The streets don’t run parallel in north, south, east and west orientation and my GPS didn’t work with their network, so make sure you arrange cell phone coverage ahead of time and pray that it works. I spent a lot of time walking around in circles, so the tour was nice in that regard, but not something I would want to do on a one day stop, if I had a choice and had done some homework ahead of time.

It's a very full tour. A quick cup of coffee and if available a muffin or small pastry as we recall was all the time available in the Viking Ship.