Are those okay per policy? Hobbitschuster (talk) 22:29, 8 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

IMO, no, because they're guides. I think they violate some of the purposes of external links#what not to link to. Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:53, 8 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

I would lean in the same direction. At any rate, this article could use some expansion, but if I know anything about the demographics on those ships, our editor base probably has no major overlap with said demographics. Hobbitschuster (talk) 23:42, 8 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

I've moved the listings here, in case there's a decision to put them back into the article, or in case anyone can glean useful information from the descriptions to add to the article:

• Hurtigruten - 11 day Voyage Guide (Nature - history - culture - legends), Bodø, Norway, ☏ +47 922 72 878. 24/7. A 422 page illustrated voyage guide book, giving step-by-step guiding for the entire journey. Includes maps, pictures, illustrations, special subject reports on, for example, Vikings, Laplanders, underwater landslides, trade along the coast in olden days. Highly recommended by several critics on amazon uk. Available in bookstores, online and onboard the ships. NOK398
  ISBN 9788299720632 (German)
  ISBN 9788299720649 (English)
  ISBN 9788299720625 (Norwegian) NOK398. 
• Hurtigruten 11 day Voyage Guide, Bodø, Norway, ☏ +47 922 72 878. 422 page voyage guide book (soft and wide cover for old-style laptop book reading) with a day-by-day and hour-by-hour description on everything you see and lots of things you don't see from the ship (such as shipwrecks, reefs, historical events, underwater tunnels etc). The book is descriptive and illustrated with photos, maps, city walks in the major ports, and feature articles on relevant subjects such as the modern energy industry, the trade along the coast in the old days, historical events, world war II history, lapp culture and so on. ISBN 978829720632 Invalid ISBN (German), ISBN 9788299720649 (English) and ISBN 9788299720649 (Norwegian). 398 kr. 

Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:13, 10 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hurtigruten is described as "Norwegian Coastal Steamer", here and at Ferries. That was probably true in the 19th century, but now? From where does that description come? Are there still steamships on the route? --LPfi (talk) 13:00, 1 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

I guess it is just a convention to call this kind of service "steamer" even long after steam engines were replaced by diesel engines. Before Norway's coast and fjords had roads, "steamers" were the first and only public transport. Until recently (around 2010 I think) firms operating Hurtigruten had names like Troms Steamship Company or Bergen Steamship Company. Diesel engines were introduced in the 1950s. Seems like "coastal express" or "coastal cruise" is used now. --Erik den yngre (talk) 13:38, 1 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hurtigruten has been commonly used as the name for this shipping route and that was perfectly ok as long as there had only been this one shipping company. For a few years now Norway has taken 36% of the departure slots away from Hurtigruten and gave them to Havila, another Norwegian shipping company. They operate with similar ships using exactly the same schedule and locations in the ports. Any ideas how we can reflect this in this article? Michaelph (talk) 14:29, 9 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

I think we can just tell this in the Understand. The link for the Hurtigruten should be removed from the lead (it is now dead; the company also has other cruises, prioritised at their main page). I think we should keep the title and use it for the route(s), and make clear when we tell about the namesake company. Both companies, and any other competitors, should be mentioned in listings in Understand (or perhaps in Prepare). –LPfi (talk) 07:00, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply