Located about 1 hour, 30 minutes north of Oslo, Norefjell ski resort is only directly accessible by road; however, there is a rail station nearby and Oslo receives a huge number of flights. Most people fly to Oslo and take the bus to Norefjell, or a train/bus combination. International rail travel is the next best option, while self-drive from the UK is the most demanding.

Oslo’s Gardermoen Airport is the nearest and it receives flights, both scheduled and charter services, from all over the world; from here, Skibuses leave twice daily for Norefjell. By hire car from Gardermoen Airport, take a series of minor roads west, following the signs for Bjørgeseter, and then take highway 4 to Roa, highway 35 to Honefoss and highway 7 to the resort (110kms; two hours).

If you’re driving from the UK, you need to take the ferry from Newcastle to Bergen, from where highway 7 goes to Norefjell; the distance from Bergen is 350kms, taking about eight hours. If you’re coming from the port of Calais, or Brussels, the route takes in Antwerp, Essen, Hanover and a ferry to Larvik from Denmark, and then continues on to Norefjell.

Travelling by train from the UK is fairly convenient, with a Eurostar service leaving from London’s Waterloo station regularly for Brussels. A sleeper train goes from Brussels to Copenhagen and then a connecting train runs to Oslo. From Oslo, you can catch a train to Hønefoss, from where buses are available to Norefjell.