Travel planner
Learn about the essentials on how to buy and use our different types of tickets, as well as some general rules on boarding the bus and what you can bring.
Tickets we offer for our local buses
- vestfoldticket/Single ticket: Applies for a single journey, but with transfer to another bus within the time limit of the ticket. Valid for 90 minutes if you buy in VKT app. 60 minutes if you buy on the bus.
- 7-days ticket: Unlimited bus travel within 7 days from activation.
- 30-days ticket: Unlimited bus travel within 30 days from activation.
- 180-days ticket: Unlimited bus travel within 180 days from activation
Pricing for all the products can be found on our website - https://www.vkt.no/reise/billetter-og-priser/ - or contact us via e-mail on Kollektiv@vestfoldfylke.no
How and where to buy our tickets
Tickets can be bought at our sales offices VKT sales office at Tønsberg rb.st and Narvesen Sandefjord station.
As well as on our buses and phone applications - https://www.vkt.no/reise/mobilapplikasjoner/ - Travel cards can be recharged on the bus with online bankcard, and on our sales offices or in our web shop - https://www.nettbutikk.vkt.no
- Download VKT -app on mobile phone in AppStore or GooglePlay. Buy Vestfoldticket (single ticket) with VKT app before boarding the bus.
- Buy 7-days, 30-days before boarding online at vkt.no. You need a travel card to buy these tickets.
- You can buy travel card onboard the buses or at one of our sales offices.
- You can buy a ticket on board the bus with online credit card.
Ticket on mobile app
- Every ticket you buy on the mobile will have a QR-code which you scan on the bus when boarding.
Need a travel card
You can pick up a travel card at VKT sales office at Tønsberg rb.st or at one of our sales offices - https://www.vkt.no/utsalgssted
Take good care of your card. It can be reused.
How to fill and use the travel card
After buying a travel card, you can fill it right on the bus or the sales office where you got it, or register the card in our web shop and fill it online.
- When you’ve filled up your card, you validate it on the bus by holding the card against the bus card scanner. Sometimes, right after a refill, the scanning process might take a couple of seconds longer to validate the card. Make sure to hold the card on the scanner as still as possible and wait for the scanner to react.
How to register your travel card
Travel cards can be registered in our web shop.
- Buy a card on the bus or from one of our sales offices.
- Make a user on https://www.nettbutikk.vkt.no
- Register your card using the card ID number that’s printed on the back side of the bus card.
- After that you can fill up your card.
Benefits of registering your travel card.
- You can always see the content on your travel card
- Digital receipts
- you will have the travel card ID number online in case you lose your card and physical receipt. This ID number can be used to transfer contents from an old card to a new card.
Remember to always have a valid ticket before boarding the bus.
Always scan your ticket when you board the bus, or buy one directly from the driver with credit card.
What you can bring on the bus
- Prams, wheelchairs and skis – free of charge.
- Bicycles and electric scooter – priced the same as a child ticket.
- Dogs, cats, and other animals in a cage or on a lead – free of charge.
- The bus driver will decide if it’s sufficient space on the bus. If not, you will be denied access on this specific departure.
Contact us
Customer service center Tønsberg bus station
- Monday to Friday: 07:00 - 17:00
- Sunday: Closed
Call us
- 333 00 100 and press 1
- Monday to Friday: 07:00 - 18:00
- Saturday: 09:00 - 16:00
- Sunday: Closed
Contact form
Easter
| Day | Route plan | Good to know |
| Maundy Thursday | Sunday departures | |
| Good Friday | Sunday departures | |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday departures | |
| First Easter Sunday | Sunday departures | |
| Second Easter Monday | Sunday departures |
Holidays May
| Day | Route plan | Good to know |
| 1st May | Sunday departures | |
| 17th May | Sunday departures | Extra depatures. www.vkt.no/17mai |
| Ascension Day | Sunday departures | |
| The eve of Pentecost | Saturday departures | |
| Second day of Pentecost | Sunday departures |
Christmas and New years
| Day | Route plan | Good to know |
| Christmas eve | Saturday departures until 2pm. Information about the last departures will be published in December. | |
| Christmas day | Sunday departures | |
| Boxing day | Saturday departures | |
| New years eve | Saturday departures without night bus | |
| First New year's day | Sunday departures |