🧒 Activities with kids
Where: Norway · Sweden · Denmark · Finland · Iceland Type: Overview · 82 activities
Water parks, theme parks, zoos, museums, boat trips, bowling and caves per country, with a filter by type of outing.
Things to do & sights
Activities, highlights and day trips for every season in the far north.
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Things to do and sights in Scandinavia
A boat gliding into a fjord between steep rock walls, a roller coaster in the middle of the city or an evening under the northern lights: Scandinavia is full of outings the kids will talk about for a long time. Here you’ll find our English pages about them in one place.
🚢 Highlights in Norway
Where: Norway Type: Country page · Things to do
Norway with the family: fjords, waterfalls and camping with a view.
🌌 Northern lights with kids
Location: Skandinavien Type: Guide
Where and when you and the family have the best chance of seeing the northern lights, with distances from Utrecht, winter tyres per country, tours and lodges.
🎄 Christmas markets
Location: Skandinavien Type: Guide
Tivoli, Skansen, Liseberg, Jul i Vinterland and Tuomaan Markkinat: all dates 2026, admission, daylight and hotels per city.
🧖 Sauna & wellness
Location: Skandinavien Type: Guide
Saunas, sea baths and warm lagoons in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland that are fun with kids, with age rules and prices from the official websites.
❄️ Winter in Scandinavia
Location: Skandinavien Type: Guide
Ski resorts compared, ski-in/ski-out favourites, winter tyres per country and distances from Utrecht, with sources.
More things to do (in Dutch)
Our detailed guides to outings are only available in Dutch for now:
- The best day trips in Norway (in Dutch)
- Theme parks in Denmark, Sweden and Finland (in Dutch)
- Animals and safaris: whales, elk, bears and musk oxen (in Dutch)
- Culture, museums and city trips (in Dutch)
- Free and cheap outings in nature (in Dutch)