Copenhagen first. Then the rest of Denmark.
Which canal boat has a roof when the weather turns. Whether the Copenhagen Card pays for itself. What a guided bike ride covers that a walking tour never reaches, and which castle is worth the train north. Every tour in Denmark, reviewed.
What travellers book before they land in Copenhagen.
Every review →City cards, harbour boats, the two-country run across the Øresund and the bike ride that covers half the capital. Prices, ratings and what each one actually includes.
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Copenhagen Card-Discover: 80+ Attractions & Public Transport
Get free entry to 80+ Copenhagen sights and unlimited transit with Copenhagen Card-Discover, plus easy airport rides by public transport.
From · $92
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Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour with Boat Tour Option
from $35
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Private Walking Grand Tour of Copenhagen
from $342
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Lund and Malmö 2-Country Tour
from $131
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Copenhagen Highlights Walking Tour
from $40
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Highlights 3 Hour Bike Tour with a Local Guide
from $62
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Hamlet and Sweden Tour – Two Countries in one day !
from $142
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Grand Day Trip around Copenhagen
from $211
The days most Denmark trips get built around.
Harbour boats, city bikes, an open smørrebrød table, a castle up the coast, wooden giants hidden in the woods and one very large LEGO park. Pick those first and fit the rest around them.
Nyhavn takes ten minutes. Copenhagen takes longer.
The harbour bus, the guard walking up to Amalienborg, the workshops behind the Christiania gate, the pastry counters in Nørrebro. Almost every day out in Denmark starts in the capital, and the good ones are gone by lunchtime.
Copenhagen makes more sense from the canal.
The old naval channels run past the warehouses of Christianshavn, the black diamond library and the opera house, and every boat ducks under bridges low enough to make people sit down. The covered ones keep going in the rain; the small electric boats carry a dozen people and a hot drink.
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Denmark keeps a freetown, six wooden giants and lunch on one slice of rye.
Plenty of European capitals do palaces and cathedrals. These three are Danish and nowhere else.
The Freetown
Christiania took over an abandoned naval barracks on Christianshavn in 1971 and has argued with the Danish state ever since. Around a thousand people live behind the gate, in self-built houses strung along the old ramparts and the lake. Guides walk you through the workshops, the music venues and the politics; cameras are fine everywhere except Pusher Street, a rule the neighbourhood enforces itself.
- 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
The Wooden Giants
Thomas Dambo built six giants out of pallets and old fence boards and hid them in the woodland ring around Copenhagen, at Hvidovre, Rødovre and Vallensbæk. Finding all six is a full day by bike or car, with a written clue for each. South of the city the same idea goes vertical: a spiral tower that walks you up over the treetops of a Zealand forest.
- 1Round-Trip to Møns Klint and Forest Tower★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 439 reviews
- 2Møns klint and The Forest tower – A day tour from Copenhagen★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 181 reviews
- 3The Forest Tower and Forgotten Giants-A day tour from Copenhagen★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 162 reviews
The Smørrebrød Table
Smørrebrød is one slice of dense rye carrying more than looks reasonable: pickled herring under raw onion, roast pork with red cabbage, or a shrimp tower that arrives with half a lemon. Lunch is the meal Danes take seriously, snaps included. The tasting walks add the bakery counters, where the pastry the rest of the world calls Danish is simply wienerbrød.
- 1The Copenhagen Culinary Experience Food Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 959 reviews
- 2Copenhagen Culinary Food Tour with 6+ Tastings of Danish Classics★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 541 reviews
- 3Copenhagen’s oldest and original food tour (Est. 2011).★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 442 reviews
Copenhagen gave the world the cycle lane. Use it.
There are more bikes than people here, the lanes have their own traffic lights, and there is no hill worth the name. A guided three-hour ride takes in the harbour, the palace quarter and Nørrebro in the time a walking tour needs for the old streets alone.
- 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
Hamlet’s castle is forty minutes up the coast.
Kronborg stands at the narrowest point of the Øresund at Helsingør, close enough to Sweden to count the roofs on the far side. Frederiksborg keeps its moat and its chapel, Roskilde keeps the royal tombs and five salvaged Viking ships, and one day trip usually takes in two of the three.
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What a day out in Denmark actually costs.
Denmark is expensive and nobody here pretends otherwise. Every tour on the site falls into one of three brackets.
Entry tickets, harbour boats and neighbourhood walks — a full morning for the price of two coffees and a pastry.
The standard Copenhagen day: guided bike rides, food walks with six tastings, a castle run up the coast.
Private guides, full days that cross into Sweden, and the small-group tables that only seat a dozen.
- 1Private Walking Grand Tour of Copenhagenfrom $342
- 2Grand Day Trip around Copenhagenfrom $211
- 3Kronborg, Frederiksborg Castle and Roskilde Tourfrom $205
Copenhagen answers a dark afternoon with candles and a beer.
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Vesterbro Tour With Beer & Pub Visits – Max 10 People
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Most of Copenhagen can be arranged the night before from your hotel. These cannot — they run on dated tickets, seasonal opening and a departure board nobody in your party controls.
- 011-Day Ticket to LEGOLAND® with All Rides AccessDated tickets, and the park closes for the winter — check the calendar before anyone hears the word LEGO.
- 02Round-Trip to Møns Klint and Forest TowerA whole day south of the city, seats limited per departure. It will not squeeze into a spare afternoon.
- 03The Copenhagen Culinary Experience Food TourTen or twelve people to a table, one sitting at a time. Summer dates go first.
- 04Hamlet and Sweden Tour – Two Countries in one day !Two countries in a day across the Øresund — the crossing timetable sets the departure, not you.
When the rain comes in off the Øresund, go indoors in Copenhagen.
A wet day here is not a lost one. The crown jewels sit in a cellar under Rosenborg, the National Museum runs to a full afternoon, Carlsberg’s old brewery is entirely under a roof, and a pastry class ends with something warm in your hands.
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Castle Days42 tours
Viking Ships11 tours
Wooden Giants11 tours
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