Tromsø husky tour reviews
Six tours go out of Tromsø with huskies on the other end of the line, and every one of them rates 4.7 or better, which means the star score sorts almost nothing. So these reviews are about the parts the listing page leaves quiet: how much of the day is actually sledding, which valley the bus takes you into, and who each tour rules out before you have finished reading. I am Marit Stenvold and I spent eight winters harnessing teams and fitting guests into thermal suits at camps in Breivikeidet and Tamokdalen. I do not run tours and I own no dogs.
How to read a rating on this page
Two numbers matter and only one of them is the score. The Fun and Easy tour carries 2,079 ratings; the Arctic All-in-One Night carries 174. Those are not the same kind of evidence, and a 4.8 built from 174 opinions can move a long way in a single bad month. Read the count before the stars.
The other thing a score hides is who was in the group. The Advanced tour at Camp Tamok is the only product here rated below 4.8, at 4.7, and the complaints behind that number are about effort and cold rather than about the dogs or the guiding. People booked a tour that says in plain text that you must help push the sled uphill, and then discovered they meant it. That is a booking problem, not a tour problem, and it is the sort of thing I would rather tell you before you pay than after.
You are choosing a valley and a clock
Tromsø sits at 69°40′N, about 350 km north of the Arctic Circle, and the North Atlantic Drift keeps it absurdly mild for the latitude — a January mean of roughly −3.3 °C and a record low comparable to Florida’s. Mild coast means unreliable snow. Average snow depth in town peaks around 41 cm in January and is down to 26 cm by March, with midwinter thaws in between. Drive inland and that stops being true: Bardufoss, 70 km south, has a January mean of −9.7 °C and 93 days a winter at −10 °C or colder, and Tamokdalen runs −10 to −20 °C with little precipitation. That is the whole argument for the long bus, and I have set it out properly on which camp to choose.
The clock is the second half. Across every product here the time you spend standing on the runners is 30 to 90 minutes, inside a day that runs 4 to 10 hours. Everything else is transfer, the gear room, the briefing, the dog yard, food in a lávvu and the drive home. Nobody is hiding this, but nobody says it out loud either, so I will: see how long a husky tour really takes.
Three different days, side by side
| Husky Sled Self-Drive with Traditional Lunch | Most complete dayDog Sledding Adventure in Tamokdalen | Arctic All-in-One Night: Dog Sledding, Snowmobiling & Aurora | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total day | 4 hours | 7 hours | 10 hours |
| Transfer each way | 25 minutes | 95 minutes | About 80–95 minutes |
| Who drives the sled | You, shared and swapped | You, shared and swapped | A musher drives; you ride |
| Minimum age | 16 | 7 | 16 |
| The food | Reindeer stew by an open fire | Hot meal at the camp | Two-course dinner in the lounge |
| Snow security | Coastal, most thaw risk | The most snow-secure ground near Tromsø | Tamokdalen, same valley |
| Northern lights | Daytime tour | Daytime tour | The point of the evening, never promised |
| View → | Book this → | View → |
The six, reviewed
Fun and Easy Dog Sledding Adventure
The default first booking — 50 minutes out to Breivikeidet, you drive, back for the afternoon.
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Husky Sled Self-Drive with Traditional Lunch
The least bus of anything here, and a hard 16-and-over gate that stops most families.
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Dog Sledding Adventure in Tamokdalen
Inland snow and a split group: half of you sleds while the other half is in the dog yard.
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Advanced Dog Sledding Tour at Camp Tamok
The most time on the runners and the only rating below 4.8 — and the reason is you, not the dogs.
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Arctic All-in-One Night
Sledding, dinner, snowmobiles and an aurora hunt over ten hours, on the smallest sample here.
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Puppy Training at the Husky Kennel
No sledding at all, which is exactly why it is the right answer for a lot of people.
Read the full review ›If you are booking one husky day into a short Tromsø trip, put it early in the week. Camps cancel for weather, and an early booking leaves you a spare day to be rescheduled into rather than a flight to miss.
Still not sure which shape of day you want? The full comparison of all six sorts them by distance, duration and who they exclude, which is the faster way in if you have not narrowed anything down yet.
Those dates don’t work?
Browse the rest of what runs out of Tromsø — the short trips to the kennels on Kvaløya, the full days inland at Tamokdalen, the evening departures and the kennel visits with no sledding at all — and pick a day that suits you, with instant confirmation.
Frequently asked questions
Which Tromsø husky tour should I book first?
For most first-time visitors, the Fun and Easy Dog Sledding Adventure — a 50-minute transfer, a 4.5-hour day, you drive the sled yourself, and 2,079 ratings behind it. Read the full review before you book, and if your dates are late in the season, read it against the inland full day in Tamokdalen instead.
Is a tour rated 4.7 worse than one rated 4.9?
Not necessarily. The 4.7 here belongs to the Advanced tour at Camp Tamok, and the ratings that pull it down are about how hard the day is, not about the dogs or the guides. If you match the fitness line it is arguably the best sledding on this list — see the Camp Tamok review.
Did you take all of these tours yourself?
No, and I would not trust anyone who claimed to. I worked eight winters as a dog handler at camps in Breivikeidet and Tamokdalen, so I know what the day looks like from the gear room and the dog yard. The star scores and review counts on these pages come from GetYourGuide travellers, not from me — more about how this site works on the about page.