Marianne’s Heaven On Earth Aurora Chaser Tours | La Vacanza Travel

Marianne’s Heaven On Earth Aurora Chaser Tours

Duration: 6 to 10 hours
Destination: Norway, Troms, Tromso
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  • 6 to 10 hours
  • Tromso
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

Marianne's Aurora Chasing Tours To Include U.F.O.-U.A.P. Satellite & Deep Sky Abnormality Search.
This is an addition to our tours this season and is only available at guides discretion.

What makes us unique from the rest is its not just a job its a lifetimes passion and If you want to see and photograph the Aurora Borealis then you have come to the right place, we are genuine passionate aurora nuts with over 50 years experience of aurora hunting world wide.
We are professionals photographers with a lifetime experience in all of the above activities.
We will do our best to help you in every way to make your trip an experience you will never forget.
The new part of the tour consists of a search of the night skies for any Unidentified Flying Objects or Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon that are not satellites.

What Can You Expect?

The elusive northern lights, or the aurora borealis, can be challenging to spot, much less photograph. This is a small group, so if you don’t like crowds.. this is your tour.
On this tour, explore the area around the Tromso Fjords with a professional photographer who helps you capture the best photos of the phenomenon.
Its best if you Bring a camera, but the rest of your gear—tripods, winter suits, and warm boots—are provided.
A tour of the Tromso Fjords with a photographer and we do our best to Find the best spots to take photos of the northern lights: tripods and winter suits are included. And transportation from Tromso. The guide will email you a couple of pictures of you and aurora after the tour.

Please tell us the size of your snowsuit and boots

Inclusions & Exclusions

Inclusions
  • Dinner - We supply: Hot Drinks tea coffee and soup with cheese sandwiches sometimes we cooked over an Open Fire outside or in the gapahuk which is a very comfortable shelter with a log burning fire.
  • We supply: Hot Drinks tea coffee and soup with cheese sandwiches sometimes we cooked over an Open Fire outside or in the gapahuk

Exclusions

    Additional Info

    • Not wheelchair accessible
    • Stroller accessible
    • Service animals allowed
    • Near public transportation
    • Most travelers can participate
    • If you have any hidden disabilities please let us know well in advance .
    • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
    • This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
    • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 7 travelers
    • Confirmation will be received at time of booking

    Departure Point

    Departure Point

    Smørtorget, Fredrik Langes gate 9, 9008 Tromsø, Norway


    Departure Time

    06:00 PM


    Return Details

    Smørtorget, Fredrik Langes gate 9, 9008 Tromsø, Norway

    Duration & Voucher Info

    Voucher info

    You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

    Duration

    6 to 10 hours

    Cancellation Policy

    User's Reviews

    petereQ6118ST

    24 Mar, 2024

    Once again marinne came good with difficult cloudy conditions and a nearly full moon we got fantastic views and northern lights. Marianne is really helpful in giving advice on camera set up and she carries spare tripods warm clothing well worth a go. Also check out the day tours.

    jille711

    24 Mar, 2024

    We have been on trips with Marianne many times over a number of years. Both her night time Aurora chasing and her day time trips. She is knowledgeable, friendly and funny, and goes the extra mile to get her guests seeing what they hoped for, whether that be seeing reindeer or hunting for the Northern lights. She is passionate about the Aurora, and for those clients not sure how to set up their Iphones or cameras, she will do what she can to assist. Gives ideas on taking different photos, looking at things from a different angle. Food and drink always good and plentiful. The trip is small, so if just one minibus it's 7 people. Whenbusy, she will run 2 minibuses. Ok for couples, groups or single travellers. This time on the aurora hunt we visited Sommoroy one night, then Tromvik the 2nd night. She will always go where you are most likely to see the lights. Highly recommend.

    bryantM9054RH

    19 Mar, 2024

    Marianne is wonderful. We had used her back in 2019 on our first trip to Tromso for the Northern Lights and been very pleased, so when we returned in March of 2024, we reserved 2 more nights with her. Again, we were very pleased. Many tour operators say that they’ll find you clear skies for the aurora and you get a sort of half-hearted attempt. Yes, you may see some color, but you end up surrounded by large tour buses full of people, you get bad foregrounds, or a peek-a-boo view at the aurora through clouds that spoil your photographs. Marianne delivers on her promises. Our first night she took us to 3 different spots on Kvaloya, and island near Tromso. We had good results on the first two stops and after about 5 hours of work, as we were headed back toward Tromso She saw the aurora above us on the road, found a safe spot for us. and we got to photograph the aurora directly above us, moving faster than my wife and I had ever seen. A couple of nights later we went our with her again. The weather forecast around Tromso was terrible, heavy cloud cover with light snow all night long. Marianne loaded us all up and drove us about 60 kilometers in to Finland, found us a spot to ourselves with good sightlines in all directions, and when the aurora appeared int really put on a show. One of my attached photographs shows her other clients on the tour under a beautiful aroura. She gave us 9 hours of her time that night to make sure we got what we wanted. She works with her clients to make sure they get good photos, whether they have good cameras or are trying to capture the aurora on their cell phones. She provides food, hot soup, hot chocolate, has thermal suits for those who need them, and tripods for those that don’t have their own. My wife and I have photographed the aurora in Alaska, in Lofoten, and in Tromso and have used a variety of tour operators. When in Tromso we will never use anyone but Marianne.

    pappyv2024

    16 Mar, 2024

    Marianne and George are an amazong aurora hunting team. My wife and I went on 7 excursions (5 aurora hunting and 2 others), and don't regret a single one. 3 out of 5 aurora nights were the most amazing displays of aurora activity that most people ever get to see in their lives. One night had decent early activity with a lot of waiting for almost nothing to show the rest of the night, but still was able to get a lot of amazing Milky Way Galaxy photos taken with Marianne's instruction. The last trip was the fated trip with the van breakdown that the below group of reviewers spammed negative reviews about in order to drop Marianne's rating (shame on you). But that's how aurora hunting goes. You never know what is going to happen and every one of them is an adventure. AURORA HUNTING IS HIT OR MISS! You are never guaranteed to see an aurora. What Marianne has though is over 40 years of experience in knowing the 200 miles surrounding Tromso as well as an extremely scientific suite of tools that tracks every aspect of aurora potential in real-time with weather, kP index, magnetic field resonance/strength, location and many more. She is also connected with a huge network of other operators who all help each other find the best places where activity is happening. One group of people we were on a trip with said that they were on their 8th trip to Tromso for aurora hunting and had only seen the aurora 3 times (each time was with Marianne). Marianne is a very kind and compassionate person who is willing to go out of her way to make your trip to Tromso the best possible. After our first night trip she offered to take us on a daytime photography instruction tour. It was absolutely wonderful! She was also able to help connect me with a local fisherman to charter a fishing trip. Marianne goes the extra mile (or 100 miles if needed) every time! One night as she was picking the group up there was a very elderly couple who were lost walking the streets with their luggage who only spoke Dutch and German. Marianne's big ole heart couldn't let them wander alone, so she found someone who could translate and helped get them to their hotel before our trip. She really cares and is very passionate about helping everyone around her. As is with all tours, there is often someone who is a buzzkill. On the first night a group of 4 people who were up on top of the gondola lift and luckily saw a truly amazing aurora display. On Marianne's trip the next night they were snarky and belligerent, wanting little to do with the amazing experience that Marianne guided them to since they already did it the night before on their own and were just doing Marianne a "favor" by not canceling. They just wanted to get drunk and were upset when Marianne wouldn't take them to a liquor store to get alcohol (against the rules of her trip). Luckily we had a second vehicle and Marianne was able to have her helper take them home early per their request. Look for those negative reviews soon... As for the breakdown night. Yes it was a harder than normal night, but please read between the lines of the negative reviews. One person complained about not getting taken all the way to Finland and we instead went south. Well guess what... the entire way to Finland, in the opposite direction of where we went, was completely cloud locked. NONE of the other tour operators were succesful going in that direction and to suggest later in their reviews that they were successful that night is straight up dishonest. We went in the ONLY direction that there was a chance for the clouds to break. Guess what... THEY DID! After the van broke down we were standing in a turnout on the roadside and the clouds opened and guess what... the aurora came out! Would you believe that these obnoxious reviewers WOULDN'T EVEN LOOK UP! We were telling them... LOOK RIGHT THERE! THERE IS THE AURORA!!! and they wouldn't even look at it or even attempt to take a picture. Instead they pouted and huffed and went off on their own. Then they have the nerve to complain about tour size when the problem was their own inability to understand plain English. Nowhere does it say that the tour maximum is 7 people. It only says that there is a maximum of 7 PER GROUP. Marianne has two different vans that each hold 7 people. One van for this night needed to stay behind, so Marianne hired two private cars to drive the second group around. Yes the vans are tight quarters for people who are over 6ft tall, but imagine how rigid and ornery of a person you have to be to complain about being "stuck" in a private car instead of packed up into a bus with 6 other people in tight quarters because that is what you were expecting. Having 2 vans to shuttle up to 14 people is a blessing just in case something bad happens or you have a group of rigid negative Nancies that want to peel off early while others want to stay late. Two vans for 14 people is FAR better than one fourteen passenger van. Lastly, the reviewers use of false impressions to manipulate readers (such as "we sat for many hours with our knees up around our ears") is just straight up deceitful. There were many stops, multiple restroom breaks, delicious soup and cheese sandwiches, home made hot chocolate and Norweigan cookies... the list goes on. Imagine the reviewer who was upset that "his spot" in the car was lost because Marianne asked him to stay back so someone else could go and he doesn't have the decency to explain that he was asked to stay back because two of the people that were in the van had to be at the airport for a flight out in the wee hours of the morning! He is actually mad that these people didn't miss their flight home and he had to stay behind for an extra hour to wait for another car and NOT watch the aurora that formed over his head. Just silly. Childishly self-centeredly silly. One thing in common with all of the negative reviews is that they exude an obnoxious entitlement and a narcissistic need to be catered to as the center of attention. Then to have your whole group spam individual 1-star reviews just to hurt the tour operator who scrambled her heart out the entire time to try and save such a doomed tour is just such a horrible and mean-hearted thing to do. Marianne is a true professional at what she does. She made our whole trip to Norway 10x better; far better than I originally expected. We will definitely be booking with her for our next trip!

    BlakeARyan

    16 Mar, 2024

    We travelled to Tromsø to see the Northern lights. Marianne helped us achieve this goal ! She has expert knowledge on all photography equipment and plenty of tripods to go around. She was very patient with us and helped adjust our settings on our camera, as well as our phones. We were also provided with snowsuits, high visibility vests (for safety purposes). Boots and gloves were also on hand if needed. Marianne had prepared a warm soup, cheese sandwiches and also treated us to delicious hot chocolates and cookies. Prior to that we also made a bathroom stop to grab any snacks we would want, and for her to fill up the tank. It was a lot of driving, but we were quite happy to rest our eyes in between stops. She stayed out longer than most of the other tour companies, to ensure we got the best opportunities to see the Northern Lights in all their glory, we ended up seeing them all the way into Finland, around 1 am! ang got back to our hotel just before 4am. It was absolutely incredible ! If we ever come back to Tromsø, we would definitely contact her again!

    User's Picture Gallery

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    Northen lights chase

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    Great night and daytime trips

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    Marianne is the Best

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    WONDERFUL experiences despite the obnoxious negative Nancies below.

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    Just what we came for !!!

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    Best Aurora Lights Experience

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    Seriously the best guide ever!

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    Ruined every minute of my husband’s birthday night

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    Marianne's tours made our visit complete.

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    Experience of a Lifetime

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    Having fun touring the Arctic with Marianne!

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    Marianne and George are devoted!!

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    Best birthday present!!!!

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    1000 Stars and the colorful Sky

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    Absolutely Unbelievable Experience

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    Best Tour experience

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    Amazing people to be around and experience the Aurora!!!

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    Best northern lights tour and very passionate, committed and dedicated

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    Knowledgeable guide determined to find the Aurora - and we did!

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    Aurora Magic

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    Strong Auroras, Beautiful Landscapes, Amazing Tour Guides!!!

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    Oh what a night

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