Copenhagen in a weekend, Denmark in a week.
Which canal boat actually passes the opera house. Whether a bike tour beats a walking tour in October. What Kronborg costs once the train fare is in. Every tour in Denmark, reviewed and priced.
The days a Copenhagen trip gets built around.
An hour on the harbour, a bike you actually ride, the castle up at Helsingor, pastry before ten. These are the days most Denmark trips are planned around, and the best way to book each one.
The tours most travellers take in Denmark.
Every review →These move in the thousands. Here is what each one gets you once the money has changed hands.
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Copenhagen Card-Discover: 80+ Attractions & Public Transport
See 80+ Copenhagen attractions, cruise the canals, and ride public transport across the Capital Region with one flexible digital pass.
From · $92
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Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour with Boat Tour Option
from $35
3
Private Walking Grand Tour of Copenhagen
from $342
4
Lund and Malmö 2-Country Tour
from $131
5
Copenhagen Highlights Walking Tour
from $40
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Highlights 3 Hour Bike Tour with a Local Guide
from $62
7
Hamlet and Sweden Tour – Two Countries in one day !
from $142
8
Grand Day Trip around Copenhagen
from $211
Copenhagen makes more sense from a boat.
The city was built facing its harbour and has never turned away from it. An hour on a canal boat takes in the opera house, the Black Diamond, the houseboats of Christianshavn and the small bronze mermaid everyone argues about, for less than the price of lunch.
Copenhagen rides better than it walks.
There are more bikes than people here, the land is flat and the lanes are kerbed off from the traffic. Three hours in the saddle covers the harbour, Christianshavn and the palaces while a walking tour is still on its second stop.
- 1Highlights 3 Hour Bike Tour with a Local Guidefrom $62
- 2Copenhagen Highlights 3 Hour Bike Tour with local Guidefrom $61
- 33-hour Copenhagen City Highlights Bike Tourfrom $54
What a day out in Denmark really costs.
Denmark is expensive and nobody here pretends otherwise. The whole site, cheapest first, so the affordable end is easy to find.
Canal hours, walking tours, museum entry and the pastry crawls. The everyday city, and most of the good bits.
Guided bike days, food tours with six tastings, the castle run up the coast to Helsingor.
Private guides, the two-country day across the bridge to Sweden, and trips that take the whole daylight.
Three things that only make sense in Denmark.
Canal boats and old palaces turn up all over northern Europe. Hygge, Christiania and a properly set smorrebrod table belong to this country alone.
Hygge
Hygge is not candles and knitwear, whatever the gift shops sell. It is the Danish habit of making a small, warm, unhurried thing out of an ordinary hour: coffee that lasts, a table nobody leaves, a harbour bench in weather no other nation would sit out in. The guides who run these walks spend as much time indoors as on the street, which is rather the point.
- 1Hygge and Happiness Culture Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 539 reviews
- 2Good Morning, Copenhagen: Feel The Danish Hygge & Happiness★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 503 reviews
- 3Copenhagen Walking Tour: Highlights and Hygge w/Lunch★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 272 reviews
Christiania
In 1971 squatters walked into an abandoned naval barracks in Christianshavn and never left. Fifty years on the place still governs itself, still keeps cars out and still argues with Copenhagen about what it is. Photography is restricted in parts of it and the rules are posted at the gates, so a guide is the difference between walking through and understanding it.
- 1Hippies & Christianshavn Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 249 reviews
- 2Private Walking Tour of Christianshavn★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 122 reviews
- 3Private Hippies & Christianshavn Politically Incorrect Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 114 reviews
Pastry and Smorrebrod
What the rest of the world calls a Danish, Denmark calls Viennese bread, and the local version is laminated in butter, glazed, and gone before eleven. Smorrebrod is the other half of the day: rye, one topping taken seriously, eaten with a knife and fork at lunch and never at night. Both are cheap ways into a very expensive food city.
- 1Best of Danish Pastry Tasting Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 414 reviews
- 2The Art of Baking Danish Pastry★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 276 reviews
- 3Danish Pastry Crawl with Private Guide★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 46 reviews
Two castles and a Viking harbour, all inside one day.
The coast road north of Copenhagen ends at Kronborg in Helsingor, where Hamlet is set and Sweden sits close enough to pick out windows. Frederiksborg stands inland in the middle of its own lake. Roskilde keeps five Viking ships that were sunk on purpose to block a fjord. Trains reach all three; a tour saves you the timetable.
Denmark, place by place
Copenhagen206 tours
Aarhus12 tours
The Faroe Islands4 tours
Helsingor & Kronborg8 tours
Roskilde6 tours
Odense4 tours
Malmo, over the bridge6 tours- Every review →
Copenhagen rain arrives sideways. Book indoors and stay out longer.
The weather comes off the Oresund with the wind behind it, most reliably between October and January, and the light is gone by four in December. None of that touches a museum ticket, a pastry table, a glassed-in canal boat or an afternoon of hygge. The city was built for exactly this kind of day.
North from Copenhagen, then west across the belts.
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