Northern Lights

You`ve three choices to join me out for a chase;

• 1. GuideGunnar`s Aurora Chase (1-16 guests) NOK 1 650 (NB! Last availability will be in April 2026)
• 2. GuideGunnar`s Private Aurora Chase Dinner (2-8 guests) NOK 2 450 per guest
• 2b. GuideGunnar`s Private Aurora Chase without dinner (9-12 guests) NOK 1 995 per guest
• 3. GuideGunnar`s Aurora Chase Dinner (4-8 guests) NOK 1 995
  
  

1. GuideGunnar`s Aurora Chase

Season: GuideGunnar's Aurora Chase runs September – April

• Price: NOK 1 650 / adult
• Kids price (8-14 years): NOK 1 250 / kid
• Magic Ice Bar, street Kaigata 4. Google View location >>
  
• Show up time: 18.20 / 6.20 pm for instruction by your guide.
  
• Leaving time: 18:30 / 6.30 pm
• Duration: 5 - 10 hours (Lady Aurora & the weather decide the time)
• Number of guests: 1 - 14 guests. NB! 16 guests from September 2023 (new bus).
• Tours available from 8 years old. For smaller kids & babies, please join me for a Private Aurora Chase!

GuideGunnar`s Aurora Chase includes

• Pick up from Magic Ice Bar, street Kaigata 4.
• GuideGunnar's guide service.
• Catering snacks served around the camp fire: From Lefsekjerringa i Tromsø; Arctic Norway's traditional and locally made pastry with cream and sweet goat cheese. Served with hot black currant jus.
• Arctic proof warm boots and thermo suit. Dress to impress the Arctic's sub zero temperatures.
• Camera tripods.
• If we catch a good one, I share GuideGunnar Aurora Chase photographs from your Aurora night with you.
• A Google Map directions link, showing your Aurora Chase tour route.
• Return transport to your accommodation, in the city.
• GuideGunnar's tours run in a high quality, warm and spacious 17 seater mini bus with on screen introductions to Aurora Borealis en route to the lights.

AURORA PASS - Book more than one chase and SAVE money

GuideGunnar offers a 2-3-4 nights Aurora Pass.

2 nights chasing: Add AURORAPASSx2 and SAVE 5%.
3 nights chasing: Add AURORAPASSX3 and SAVE 15%.
4 nights chasing: Add AURORAPASSX4 and SAVE 25%.

See "+ Add to booking" after selecting your first tour to find your second, third and 4th night, then enter the Promo Voucher code for your discount to be applied. NB! Aurora Pass bookings is only valid as one advance booking.

GuideGunnar`s Aurora Pass is also valid for Ice Fishing & Snowshoe; So book for example one day Ice Fishing + two nights Aurora Chase and SAVE money.

- The original Aurora Chase: One of 3 first Aurora Guides in Tromsø, and the only one who still going strong!

- Comfort; Lovely journey with comfortable seats and good space.

- Quality; Small groups gives better connection between the guide and the guests.

- Experience; 26 years in travel business / 17. Aurora season / over 1900 chase nights.

- Local Knowledge Guide; I know Northern Norway ... My family is from Sami / Finnish heritage.

FULL MOON AURORA: Did you not knew that Aurora can be more beautiful together with the moon ?

2. GuideGunnar`s Private Aurora Chase Dinner

GuideGunnar's Private Aurora Chase Dinner is perfect for work teams, good friends, and family adventures. In this high quality, good service chase into the Arctic wilderness your private group is well looked after by one of Norway’s most innovative and experienced tour guides. 

GuideGunnar’s Private Aurora Chase also treats you to Norwegian traditional dinner & snacks around the camp fire and presents on screen introduction to the physics wizardry and cultural history of Aurora Borealis.

Season: GuideGunnar's Private Aurora Chase runs late August – mid April.

• 2 - 8 guests NOK 2 450 per guest
• Minimum price NOK 9 900 (for the bus)
• Private, but no dinner: 9 - 12 guests NOK 1 995 per guest
  
• Pickup point Tromsø TOS airport, cruise ship, city hotel or your AirBnb accommodation address.
• Start time Recommended tour start 17.30 - 19.30, please notify your guide of your preferred start time.
• Recommended duration 5 - 10 hours
• Number of guests 2 - 8 (12)
• Private Chase is available for kids & babies too.

Private Aurora Chase Dinner includes

• Pick up from Tromsø airport (TOS), cruise ship, city hotel or your AirBnb accommodation address.
• GuideGunnar's guide service.
• Hot meal from GuideGunnar`s Theatre of Food Menu; A vegetarian soup of mixed vegetables served with home made bread. For meat lovers: : the Norwegian delicacy ‘Fenalår’, a dry cured lamb ham which has been part of the Norwegian cuisine for centuries.
  
• Catering snacks served around the camp fire: From Lefsekjerringa i Tromsø; Arctic Norway's traditional and locally made pastry with cream and sweet goat cheese. Served with hot black currant jus.
• Arctic proof warm boots and thermo suit. Dress to impress the Arctic's sub zero temperatures. Note! Clothing for babies and kids not available (smalles suit size is XS, smallest boots EU36)
• Camera tripods.
• If we catch a good one, I share a GuideGunnar Aurora Chase photographs from your Aurora night with you.
• A Google Map directions link, showing your Aurora Chase tour route.
• Return transport to your accommodation, in the city, or back to the airport.
• GuideGunnar's tours run in a high quality, warm and spacious 14 seater mini bus with on screen introductions to Aurora Borealis en route to the lights.

3. GuideGunnar`s Aurora Chase Dinner

NB! From August 2023 I will also run an regular Aurora Chase Dinner for 4-8 guests. It`s already open for booking!

GuideGunnar's Aurora Chase Dinner is open for all guests above age 18 years. In this high quality, good service chase into the Arctic wilderness you`ll be well looked after by one of Norway’s most innovative and experienced tour guides. 

GuideGunnar’s Aurora Chase Dinner also treats you to Norwegian traditional dinner & snacks around the camp fire and presents on screen introduction to the physics wizardry and cultural history of Aurora Borealis.

Season: GuideGunnar's Aurora Chase Dinner runs September – mid April.

• • Price: NOK 1 995 / adult
  • NEW Pickup point: Magic Ice Bar, street Kaigata 4. Google View location >>
    
  • Show up time: 18.20 / 6.20 pm for introduction by your guide.
    
  • Leaving time: 18:30 / 6.30 pm
    
  • Duration: 6 - 8 hours (but, Lady Aurora decide if it`s get later)
    
  • Number of guests: 4 - 8 guests
  • NB! The dinner chase runs when min. 4 is booked, but please book individual; 1+1+2=4).
  • If it`s only 1-3 guests booked until 3 weeks before the tour date, it will be changed to an regular Aurora Chase, without dinner, and you`ll get a refund on NOK 345 per guest.

Aurora Chase Dinner includes

• Pick up from Magic Ice Bar.
• GuideGunnar's guide service.
• Hot meal from GuideGunnar`s Theatre of Food Menu; A vegetarian soup of mixed vegetables served with home made bread. For meat lovers: : the Norwegian delicacy ‘Fenalår’, a dry cured lamb ham which has been part of the Norwegian cuisine for centuries.
  
• Catering snacks served around the camp fire: From Lefsekjerringa i Tromsø; Arctic Norway's traditional and locally made pastry with cream and sweet goat cheese. Served with hot black currant jus.
• Arctic proof warm boots and thermo suit. Dress to impress the Arctic's sub zero temperatures. 
• Tripods for camera and smart phones.
• If we catch a good one, I share a GuideGunnar Aurora Chase photographs from your Aurora night with you.
• A Google Map directions link, showing your Aurora Chase tour route.
• Return transport to your accommodation, in the city (max. 6 km out), or back to the airport.
• GuideGunnar's tours run in a high quality, warm and spacious 17 seater mini bus with on screen introductions to Aurora Borealis en route to the lights.

GuideGunnar`s Service & Quality

In your chase for the magical Aurora Borealis, GuideGunnar finds the way to the best weather conditions, delivering a consistently high northern lights finding rate.

In this high quality, good service, small group chase into the Arctic wilderness you are well looked after by one of Norway’s most innovative and experienced tour guides. Educated mountain guide, GuideGunnar was one of the first in Arctic Norway to give global travelers a unique experience under the northern lights. GuideGunnar is known for his energy and enthusiasm, sharing generously his in-depth, local knowledge of heritage and country. In Norway, people also know GuideGunnar from the TVNorge series Jakten på Nordlyset, Chasing the Northern Lights, where he featured prominently throughout ten episodes.

GuideGunnar’s Aurora Chase Tromsø also treats you to Norwegian traditional snacks around the camp fire and presents on screen introduction to the physics wizardry and cultural history of Aurora Borealis.

What is most important to me is that you as a guest shall have the best possible chance to experience what you have come here for; to see the dance of Lady Aurora in the nightern skies.

Good comfort transport

GuideGunnar's tours run in a high quality, warm and spacious 17 seater mini bus with on screen introductions to Aurora en route to the lights.

Max. 8 guests on GuideGunnar`s Private, Dinners and Ice Fishing tours for more space and comfort for you as my guests.

Passports

Please bring your passport (or other ID for EU citizens) for GuideGunnar's Aurora Chase, as weather conditions might see us chase the lights across the border into Finland.

Why freeze, when you can stay warm!

Get a better Aurora Chase experience by following GuideGunnar`s advice on how to keep warm in the cold north; Please wear the Arctic proof warm suit and thermo boots on offer! Please check out GuideGunnar's Clothing and Gear for the Arctic Environment page for more information of how you should dress and prepare yourself before you arrive Tromsø.

Bathrooms

While GuideGunnar's Aurora Chase is a wilderness tour with bathroom facilities that of nature's own, there might be bathroom facilities en route on the Aurora Chase. Please don't hesitate to ask.

Insurance, responsibility and cancellations

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Appropriate clothing and gears in Northern Norway

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