Hurtigruten, literally translated as "the fast route" is a combination tourist cruise ship, local ferry boat, and a cargo ship that travels the coast of Norway. There are 32 ports. Passengers are discouraged from getting off at many where stops are only 5-10 minutes long. The point is to see the scenery. The voyage is scheduled so that the northbound trip at night passes places seen in daylight on the southbound voyage, the bottom line being you get to see the entire Norwegian coast on the round trip cruise.
It is hard to imagine any cruise with scenery that can match the coast of Norway whose rugged mountains plunge into the sea. We spent our waking hours in the Panorama Lounge, looking at the scenery & reading-- note: the lounge chairs are by Ekornes, the most comfortable chairs we have ever encountered on any of our dozen or so cruises.
Breakfast & lunch were buffets, the unwarranted famous Scandinavian smorgasbord. Norwegian cuisine leaves much to be desired, featuring lots of fish (mostly very fresh) cheese, eggs, and great deserts. One lunch dished up 7 different salmon dishes, but the worst of generally dismal restaurant scene was that dinner was a full service set down meal, a monumental waste of time to eat mediocre food.
Standard cabins are Very small and Very basic. However, once you compare the view from the Panorama Lounge to what you can see from your cabin, you will spend all your daylight hours in the Lounge, and that can get up to 24 hours a day once you pass the Arctic Circle in summer. We had a suite which was very nice, and very expensive.