Is Oslo a nice city to visit?

Isn't it quite suspisious that posters with unknown handles appear with just derogarory and negative things to say about people and places?

And they do not appear to post much......................Just sayin' mind.

When what the person is saying is quite true then not really suspicious, just because it is your Nordic highlight it is certainly not mine.

@BiffLoman I have to agree with you. Posters like richiavo and johnthefinn are posting for no reason. I mean richiavo's posts were pointless and didn't help me in any way what so ever.

I would also like to thank everyone who has commented so far, its been really helpful :)!

I'm not sure if BiffLoman's comment is also directed at me? I'd just like to say that it's my opinion and it's not my intention to bad-mouth Oslo as parts of it are beautiful. The area I stayed in was not nice (the Anker hostel, as I was backpacking). If someone had warned me about this area I would have stayed somewhere else in the city. The reason I haven't made many postings is because I started using this forum before I went traveling. Since I've returned you will see I have made quite a few on the Scandinavian thread trying to pass my knowledge on to others.

I just wanted to say that I asked what everyone thought of Oslo, so good and bad opinions of Oslo are welcome :).

I'm a little surprised those other comments have been disputed or caused annoyance...I'm certainly no 'fly-by-night' poster here, but, for the record, there is no doubt that there are a ceratin amount of 'druggies' and 'ladies of the night' in the vicinity of the centre...

I stayed on the Innvik boat-hotel on the harbour, not far from the new Opera House, and my Oslo friend refused point-blank to come down and meet me there or anywhere near...later on I discovered why as there were guys 'shooting-up' whenever I was coming and going...but I'm not complaing about that as I knew before I booked what to expect...also, there were prostitutes at various junctions on the way into town (I was tapped up 3 times on the way home) which surprised me after reading of the new laws which I was led to believe had driven them off the streets?...

But, as I wrote in #3, Oslo is indeed lovely but I don't see the point in not expressing the whole picture...

The Oslo railway station area is one of the shittiest places in Scandinavia, even the whole of Western Europe. As many others have said, and one disputed, there's plenty of whores and drug dealers/users around, to the point of being really annoying. It quite surprised me, as the area was also patrolled by police who didn't really seem to care. Maybe the idea is to keep the "business" in a small area so as not to overly pollute the whole city.

@grahamphelan my first post was tongue in cheek you said you had already booked so why ask if somewhere is nice if you wanted to know about the city then ask more specific questions, as for the second post some people love somewhere so much they will not hear a bad word about it, a poster who has only made just over 100 comments has a go at someone because they have made a correct comment about a city but it is only their 6th post. And as you can see lots of other people have backed him up with their comments

If you arrive in London at the International Railway Terminal at St Pancras, and walk out into the street, you in a very horrible area indeed, especially if you walk in the wrong direction. I walked out of Amsterdam Station straight into the adjacent red light area, which many people no doubt do deliberately, but that was not my intention. In Lisbon we saw people shooting up in narrow alleys leading down from the old town to the new town, and only a short distance from either. These are general urban issues, and don't make London, Amsterdam and Lisbon less worth visiting. But these cities have lived with these issues for a long time, and handle them to some degree, whereas in Oslo it is relatively novel, at least on its present scale, and it will take time for Oslo to learn to deal with it.

I'm sure Oslo is worth visiting for a short city break, but in the same way as over 100 other cities in Europe. But for me it comes a very long way down that list. Even just in Norway, like a previous poster, I'd prefer to have that time in Bergen or Trondheim. I don't rate Scandinavia for its cities.

@richiavo Your posts are pointless as they don't contribute to the post in any way what so ever. Everyone else has said what they like/didn't like about Oslo, but you said nothing basically encouraged others not to comment because I'm already going. That is what my point is! And the second time you came back to comment it was just to cause trouble anyway. I would also like to say that going to Oslo was a birthday present for me and I asked this question just to get peoples' opinions of Oslo to see what the good and bad things about the city were so I could avoid the bad and check out the good things while there. Why else would I post this? Sometimes you just need to use your common sense, and don't tell me what to ask!