On our roll call (on a different website), many posters have found recommended private tour provider

We are planning to cruise government travel rates the Norwegian Fjords government travel rates and North Cape on the Princess Caribbean Princess June 19, 2012. What shore excursions government travel rates would you recommend? Are there any independent tour guides rather than booking the shore excursions through Princess?
There are always government travel rates independent guides at all the ports, the key point and strictly a matter of individual preference is how comfortable and experienced you are with handling government travel rates your own arrangements and tours. As a rule, it is always cheaper government travel rates to book directly with a tour company rather than through any cruise line, including Princess. But the down side is, if you book your own and something happens that puts you back to the ship late, you may be waving bye to the ship, if you book through Princess the ship will wait for all ships tours to be accounted for before sailing, so if you book your own make sure you have your passport, credit card and contact information for the Princess port agent with you in case you need to get to the next port on your own. That said, if you want to book your own, research the options by going through the list of tours in the Princess guide then search out the tours on the internet to find alternate vendors, many of which can be contacted through websites government travel rates or email and can even be pre-booked. If you choose to use Princess, consider pre-booking them through government travel rates your personalizer as the popular ones will sell out and you may be up a creek if you wait to book onboard.
government travel rates I presume your port for North Cape is Honningsvaag? You definitely want to visit North Cape...and government travel rates take the ship's excursion to do so. North Cape is about a 60 minute government travel rates drive from the port in each direction through tundra-like land. No safety net, so to speak, if you were to break down on your own.
I don't have your itinerary in front of me - but if your ports include Bergen, Trondheim or Tromsoe, government travel rates you can do some sightseeing on your own, however, I am NOT an advocate of doing so everywhere. As bOB pointed out above, a cheaper excursion on your own can ultimately turn out to be an extremely expensive one if you've missed returning to the ship on time and have to make your way - at your expense - to the next port.
We are planning to cruise the Norwegian Fjords and North Cape on the Princess Caribbean Princess government travel rates June 19, 2012. What shore excursions would you recommend? Are there any independent tour guides government travel rates rather than booking the shore excursions through Princess?
We're going back in July 2012--a government travel rates different itinerary than yours, ours, on Celebrity Eclipse, is a 14 nighter (July 7) and goes to Iceland and the Faroe Islands rather than the northern end of Norway...visiting Flam, Geiranger, Molde and Bergen in Norway...
On our roll call (on a different website), many posters government travel rates have found recommended private tour providers for Iceland and the Faroe Islands, though nothing yet for Norway...Many on our cruise are booking the Flam Railroad via the website to do on their own , but we are opting for a shore excursion there...
On the whole, in researching for two different cruises in this region, I have found far fewer tour providers than in any other area in which we have cruised...and what I have found have been way too expensive...
Perhaps you'll enjoy these photos from one of my North Cape cruises. The first two photos are in the fjords government travel rates while the last two photos are of the sun at midnight off North Cape and North Cape promontory itself.
I agree with BruinSteve, I guess that private tours in Norway will be at least as expensive as the excursions provided by the ship. Norway is one of the most expensive countries (if not the most expensive) in the world.
I have done private tour guides before. But I can see Norway is different government travel rates from say the Caribbean. From everything I've read, I think we will still with booking through Princess. I have heard how quickly the tours sell out, so I'm planning to pre-book our shore excursions. Thanks for your help!