Getting here

Last updated 14 August 2026

Averøy is easier to reach than it looks

Which airport to fly into

Two airports serve this coast, and for Averøy the choice is straightforward.

• Kristiansund Airport, Kvernberget (KSU) — 21 km from the house, about 25 minutes by car. It sits on Nordlandet, one of the four islands Kristiansund is built on, 8 km from the city centre. Domestic connections run through Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim.
• Molde Airport, Årø (MOL) — 74 km, about an hour. Worth considering if the fare or the timing is better, and worth considering deliberately if you want to arrive along the Atlantic Road rather than through the tunnel.

Both have car hire desks in the terminal. Book the car before you fly: this is a small market, and in July the desks genuinely run out.

The drive from Kristiansund

From the airport you cross the Nordsund bridge from Nordlandet to Gomalandet, and from there the road drops into the Atlanterhavstunnelen — 5,727 metres under the sea, opened in 2009, reaching 250 metres below sea level at its deepest. It comes up on Averøy.

After that it is ordinary island road: past Bruhagen, out along the coast, over the small bridge to Ekkilsøy, and you are at the water. The whole thing is about 25 minutes and there is not a single ferry on the route — which surprises most people, because the map makes this coast look far more complicated than it drives.

In winter the tunnel is the reliable way in. It is weatherproof by definition, which is why we send guests through it rather than over the Atlantic Road when a storm is up.

Tolls: what changed in May 2026

This is the part that is out of date in most guides, so it is worth being precise.

• The Atlantic Road is toll-free. It always has been, since it opened in 1989.
• The Atlantic Ocean Tunnel is toll-free. It used to cost money — a government subsidy cleared the debt almost five years early, and the toll came off on 1 July 2020. The old manned toll booth, the last of its kind in Norway, is gone.
• Kristiansund now has a toll ring. Since 4 May 2026, Bypakke Kristiansund charges at two points: the Nordsund bridge and the Omsund bridge.

Arriving the scenic way, over the Atlantic Road

If you are coming from Molde, or from anywhere south, there is a better way in than the tunnel: follow the coast through Bud and arrive on Averøy across the Atlantic Road itself.

It costs you an hour or so over the direct route and it is worth every minute in daylight. The road runs out through Hustadvika — one of the most exposed stretches of the Norwegian coast — before the eight bridges lift you across the sea to Kårvåg. From Kårvåg it is about fifteen minutes to us.

Two caveats. Do it in daylight; there is no point paying for the view in the dark. And if you are driving a motorhome in a westerly gale, take the tunnel instead and drive the Atlantic Road the next morning, when you can enjoy it.

Do you need a car?

Honestly, yes. Ekkilsøy is a small island at the end of a small road, and everything worth driving to — the Atlantic Road, Kvernes, Bremsneshola, Kristiansund — is spread along a coast that public transport serves for commuters rather than for visitors.

Guests who arrive without a car manage, but they spend the week within walking and boat distance of the house. That is not the worst holiday on offer here: the jetty, the museum, the shoreline and four boats are all on the property. But if the Atlantic Road is the reason you came, hire the car.

Parking at the house is free, private and on site, including accessible parking, and there is no need to reserve it.