Discount on train tickets
Here’s an overview of the various discounts we offer and information about the conditions that apply to receive the discounts.
Discount conditions and rates
The discount is based on the price of a fully flexible adult ticket.
Children 0–5 years old travel for free on every ticket except Plus and Plus Refundable. Children from 6 years old through 17 years old receive a 75 per cent discount on Single ticket and Flex Refundable.
Children from 6 through 17 years of age are also eligible to purchase students’ discounted season tickets. During ticket inspections, the child must be able to present a valid season ticket and personal identification showing the child’s age. As identification/proof of age, we accept bank cards (with photo), passport, or copy of the child’s passport.
Children get the following discounts:
- Single ticket:
- Children 0–5 travel for free
- Children 6–17 get 75 per cent discount
- Season ticket:
- Children 0–5 travel for free
- Children 6–17 get 50 per cent discount
- Lowfare:
- Children 0–5 travel for free
- Children 6–17 get no discount
- Flex:
- Children 0–5 travel for free
- Children 6–17 get no discount
- Flex Refundable:
- Children 0–5 travel for free
- Children 6–17 get 75 per cent discount
- Plus:
- Children 0–5 get 85 per cent discount (minimum price is NOK 100)
- Children 6–17 get no discount
- Plus Refundable:
- Children 0–5 get 85 per cent discount (minimum price is NOK 199)
- Children 6–17 get 50 per cent discount (minimum price is NOK 199)
- PlusNight:
- Children 0–5 get 85 per cent discount (minimum price is NOK 579)
- Children 6–17 get no discount
- PlusNight Refundable:
- Children 0–5 get 85 per cent discount (minimum price is NOK 100)
- Children 6–17 get 50 per cent discount (minimum price is NOK 579)
- Sleeper:
- Children 0–5 travel for free
- Children 6–17 get no discount
- Sleeper Refundable:
- Children 0–5 travel for free
- Children 6–17 get 50 per cent discount (minimum price is NOK 450)
Remember to order a ticket for your child under 6 years old, even though they travel for free.
The discount is based on the price of a fully flexible adult ticket.
Single ticket with student discount
- Students under 30 with a valid student ID card, receive a student discount on single tickets. You have to buy/activate your ticket before you turn 30.
- The discount varies from 10 to 50 per cent on select ticket types. Regardless of the discounts available, a minimum price applies to tickets.
- Tickets are only valid when presented along with approved ID.
Season ticket with student discount
- Students under 30 with a valid student ID card, also get discounted season tickets. You have to buy/activate your ticket before you turn 30.
- Tickets are only valid when presented along with approved ID.
Who is eligible for a student discount?
- Students under 30 who attend upper secondary schools, universities, colleges, folk high schools, academies, public schools, or officially approved private schools can receive a student discount.
- Apprentices under 30 are also be eligible. Please be ready to show valid documentation confirming your apprenticeship.
- Your study program must have a duration (semester) of at least three months. You must be enrolled in a regular, ongoing course of study that requires school attendance. Special classes and internship-only programs are not included.
- Your studies must be your main occupation, with regular education as the goal. Students, including assistant nursing students, are eligible for the period they are in school.
- Students studying abroad, as well as foreign students in Norway, can receive our student discount. You must meet the same ID and enrolment terms and conditions as students in Norway, and be able to show valid identifications and proof of paid tuition for a study program lasting three months or more.
- Adults under 30 enrolled in the Norwegian program for recent immigrants, ‘Norwegian language and social studies’, are also eligible. This is an exception to the general rules.
- Students attending educational institutions that offer full‑time evening courses at a permanent location, and are not distance-learning or correspondence programs, are also eligible for student discounts.
Who is not eligible for student discounts?
- Single-subject students (sitting in on school classes) and adults in full-time paid employment are not eligible for Vy student discounts. Further, our student discounts are not available to students enrolled in distance-learning programs, short-term evening study programs, or schooling run by governmental agencies (etatsskoler), such as the Norwegian Defense Forces, the Norwegian Postal Services, and the like.
What constitutes valid ID?
A photo ID or copy of the student’s passport or other approved ID must also be presented upon request, in addition to proof of school enrolment. Pupils who have not been issued proof of enrolment, can show a letter in which the school affirms that the student is attending the school.
We approve the following proof that you are a student:
- Student ID card/documentation showing valid current semester enrolment. If your student card does not have a photo, you must be able to identify yourself using other valid identification.
- Certification from your school confirming enrolment in the current semester along with bank card, driver’s license, passport, or other approved photo ID.
- ISIC card (International Student Identity Card issued by Kilroy) showing a valid educational institution and period the card is valid.
ANSA cards do not entitle holders to student discounts.
When is the student ID valid?
Student IDs issued for the spring semester, or for an entire school year (that ends in May/June) are valid through 31 August of that year. Student IDs issued for a fall semester are valid through 31 January the following year.
Students get the following discounts:
- Single ticket: 50 per cent discount
- Season ticket: 50 per cent discount on 30-day season ticket. The discount does not apply to the 7-day season ticket.
- Lowfare: no discount
- Flex: no discount
- Flex Refundable: 50 per cent discount
- Plus: no discount
- Plus Refundable: 10 per cent discount (minimum price is NOK 349)
- PlusNight: no discount
- PlusNight Refundable: 10 per cent discount (minimum price is NOK 579)
- Sleeper: no discount
- Sleeper Refundable: 10 per cent discount(minimum price is NOK 450)
Travelling with another operator than Vy or by local transport?
- For travels in Oslo and Akershus, Ruter’s terms and conditions for student discounts applyExternal link.
- For travels with Go-Ahead, their terms and conditions for student discounts applyExternal link.
- For travels with SJ, their terms and conditions for student discounts applyExternal link.
- For travels on local trains in Hordaland, Skyss’ terms and conditions for student discounts applyExternal link
The discount is based on the price of a fully flexible adult ticket.
You get a discount if you are 67 years or older, on disability, blind, or visually impaired. To get this discount, you must carry ID. If you have received the card «Honnørrabatt Tilleggslegitimasjon», you also have to show this.
To receive the disability discount, you must:
- be in receipt of disability benefit as per the Norwegian National Insurance Act;
- or be a disabled refugee in receipt of supplementary benefits;
- or be in receipt of permanent, statutory disability benefits based on a degree of disability of at least 50 per cent from a national insurance disability scheme in an EEA country other than Norway.
You must in addition have a concessionary pass issued by NAV.
Married couples or registered partners are not granted a discount.
For blind travellers carrying proof issued by the Norwegian Association of the Blind, their disabled-person companion can be anyone of his or her choice, and not necessarily a spouse or partner. A child may serve as a companion for a blind traveller. Deaf-blind travellers carrying a green ID card from Nasjonal kompetansetjeneste for døvblinde (Norwegian competence center for the deaf-blind), travel on a discounted senior citizen ticket and their companion travels free of charge.
These discounts do not apply to the Flåm Line.
The discount is:
- Single ticket: 50 per cent discount
- Season ticket: no discount
- Lowfare: no discount
- Flex: no discount
- Flex Refundable: 50 per cent discount
- Plus: no discount
- Plus Refundable: 10 per cent discount
- PlusNight: no discount
- PlusNight Refundable: 10 per cent discount
- Sleeper: no discount
- Sleeper Refundable: 10 per cent discount
The discount is based on the price of a fully flexible adult ticket.
This discount applies to conscripted military personnel who are Norwegian citizens and serve in the Norwegian Armed Forces, more specifically for:
- Travel to/from draft sessions
- Travel to begin and discharge from initial compulsory military service
- Soldiers undertaking compulsory military service
- Military apprentices in 1st and 2nd year of training
- Travel to/from military exercises
- Travel to/from initial service, and yearly training, in the Norwegian Home Guard (Heimevernet)
- Pupils and students at the Norwegian Defence University College/Officers’ School
The discount applies to travellers in both civilian attire and uniform.
Regardless of discounts offered, a minimum ticket price applies. The discount does not apply to the Flåm Railway. For journeys in Oslo/Akershus and in Skyss Zone A, the ticket rules for Ruter and Skyss apply, respectively.
A draft letter (only valid when travelling to begin the initial compulsory military service, and initial service and yearly training with the Norwegian Home Guard), military student ID or Norwegian Armed Forces blue ID card are the only valid documents that entitle the holder to the discount.
Military personnel get the following discounts:
- Single ticket: 90 per cent discount
- Season ticket: no discount
- Lowfare: no discount
- Flex: no discount
- Flex Refundable: 90 per cent discount
- Plus: no discount
- Plus Refundable: no discount
- Sleeper: no discount
- Sleeper Refundable: no discount
How to get the discount
To receive the discount when travelling with a companion card, you must select Senior as your passenger category when booking your ticket. This discount cannot be combined with other discounts.
If the cardholder is entitled to a child ticket, select this ticket type. The child discount provides a higher discount than the companion scheme, and thus results in a lower total price.
Blind people who can document membership of the Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted may bring a companion when travelling on the same terms applicable to those holding companion cards.
People who are deafblind and have been issued with identification by the National Resource Centre for the Deafblind (a green card) are entitled to a senior citizen discount and their companion may travel free. Please contact customer services, a staffed station or onboard crew to buy your ticket.
Companions in areas served by Ruter
In areas served by Ruter, companions travel free (no ticket required) on Vy’s trains and Ruter’s means of transport upon presentation of a companion card. In some cases, two companions are allowed, in which case this will be stated on the companion card.
Companions in Skyss Zone A
In Skyss Zone A on local rail services from Bergen to Trengereid, companions travel free (no ticket required) upon presentation of a companion card. Services on the Bergen Line are subject to the rules set out in the bulleted list above.
If you travel in a wheelchair, you travel free of charge with trains that do not require seat reservation within Oslo and Akershus (Ruter operated service). Accordingly, you only have to purchase tickets for the part of your journey that extends beyond Oslo and Akershus (Ruter transport) zones.
This is what we need to know when you contact us to book group travel:
- Name of your group (name of company, school, or the like)
- Departure and arrival stations
- Desired travel date(s) and approximate departure time
- Number of travellers and the number of adults and children in the group as well as the children’s ages
- Name, phone number, and email address for a contact person
- Any additional information we might need
Group discounts are calculated on the basis of full-priced tickets. Therefore, it may be possible to find lower prices by booking individual tickets, such as our Lowfare tickets. If you purchase individual tickets on vy.no or in the Vy app — without the assistance of Customer Service or our group travel team — please note that you cannot book tickets for more than nine people in each such order.
Smartprice is available when buying train tickets in Eastern Norway. Smartprice can only be purchased via the Vy app for the Adult and Student ticket categories.
Smartprice is intended for people who commute between two specific train stations, with at least one of the stations you travel to/from being outside of the Ruter fare area.
When you activate Smartprice in the Vy app, you will get a discount on any Single tickets you buy within a 30-day period. You will never pay more than the price of an ordinary 30-day season ticket.
This is how Smartprice works
- You buy a Single ticket from Station A to Station B using the Vy app.
- If Smartprice is available on your route, you will be given the option to activate Smartprice when paying for your Single ticket.
- The first four Single tickets will be charged at the normal price.
- Tickets 5 to 10 will be discounted by 30 per cent.
- Tickets 11 to 20 will be subject to a greater discount, with the discount percentage depending on the line you are travelling on.
- Any remaining tickets (over 20) are free of charge for the rest of the period.
- A new Smartprice period will start automatically the next time you buy a Single ticket.
You need to travel between two specific stations to accrue a discount. In Oslo, you can choose whether you use Oslo S or Nationaltheatret as your to/from station during the Smartprice period, as both stations are counted as one.
Reis is a personal discount for those who use public transport in Oslo and parts of Akershus. You receive Reis automatically when purchasing single tickets within Ruter’s zones.
- The more tickets you buy, the cheaper it will be for you.
- The discount is calculated based on how much you have travelled in the last 30 days.
- The ticket can be used on all means of transport, including Ruter’s night bus service, in Oslo and parts of Viken.
Skyss travel discount is a discount for those who travel by public transport in Vestland. You automatically get the travel discount in the Vy app when you buy an adult single ticket within Skyss zone A.
- Perfect if you travel less than seven single trips a week.
- The discount is calculated based on the number of single tickets you have purchased in the last 30 days.
- The maximum discount is 40 %.
- For trains, the discount is applicable to Skyss zone A.
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