Copenhagen

Looking like I’m going to be off to Copenhagen in September for a long weekend.

Just wondering if anyone has been and can offer any advice on best area to stay in, things to do, what you should see, even best restaurants I guess.

But first step is to find somewhere to stay once flights are booked.

Going with 3 mates so no kids to entertain for a change!

Cheers.

 

Went about 20 years it was okay, wouldn't be in my top 5, ridiculously expensive, if you are planning on eating out try and avoid the main central touristy areas it's even more pricey.
Some nice architecture and history to the place but I just never got that big wow factor.
Defo worth a visit though.

 

Don’t bother with the little mermaid statue, much against my will I was dragged all the way out to it by my wife, waste of time and money - the underground is expensive! I actually didn’t find food any more expensive then a meal in England these days, although i don’t drink so no doubt that kept the food bill down, but 2 years ago a burger and fries was about £15 at a restaurant, same you’d pay in a decent pub in England.

 

Bern 3 times, nice city. Definitely worth a visit. As others have posted it is pricey. Tivoli gardens worth a visit. Enjoy

 

Jerbanecafeen is a rail themed pub that do excellent beers yve not heard of, think its called the railway inn. that area is also good to stay in. Tivoli gardens have good food and pubs. between the railway pub and Tivoli gardens there's a market hall who do local and continental food, bit like open market. wouldnt be my choice as a lads do tho, Valencia is top notch mate.

 

Yeah, basically we've narrowed down a weekend to go and I've seen where we can fly from Leeds/Manchester/Liverpool with reasonable flight times and prices, and it was down to Oslo (even more expensive I believe), Copenhagen or Santander basically! Main thing is the company and seeing somewhere different. I've never been to Scandinavia so that is part of the attraction.

Two of the guys no longer drink, I don't drink that much any more and nor does the other chap, so we'll have to rely on the city and our wit and conversational ability to pass the time

 

He was asking about Copenhagen not a Swiss city…

 

I went with my wife and two sons a bit over a year ago. We stayed centrally at the Tivoli Conference Hotel, which is a short walk from the Central Station and overlooks a station from which you can easily catch the metro around the city. There’s a great sushi restaurant on the top floor that is apparently a bit of a destination, but my kids then 5 and 8 had a great time.

Food and drink is expensive - we made the most of the big hotel breakfasts, had a snack for lunch, and checked prices before booking/sitting down on an evening to avoid a nasty shock. There’s a Food Hall between the central station and Tivoli Gardens that is more reasonably priced than most - lots of international cuisines and a good atmosphere. There’s also lots of restaurants at the Meatpacking district, several of which we went to walking the other way from our hotel. Food quality in general was good, it’s quite a foodie place.


Things to do we enjoyed the most included Tivoli Gardens theme park, the Roundhouse, boat trip from Nyhaven, and the Architecture museum. You can get a Copenhagen card before travelling that gets you into lots of places listed on a much reduced rate and covers use of any public transport from the airport and in the city for the duration of your trip.

We really enjoyed the place, very family friendly, and would definitely go back. The locals are welcoming and all speak great English. I learnt a bit of Danish before going, and even look the part being tall and ginger - my wife’s only complaint being 5ft3 was that everyone else towered over her.

 

We went to Copenhagen about fifteen years ago but found it cheaper to fly to (and from) Malmö, then catch the train over the long bridge that connects Sweden to Denmark. Worth doing just to see the impressive engineering.

 

We went a few years before the pandemic in December. Not my favourite city, like a lot of Scandinavia cities, it has a hint of being a bit sterile which isn’t fair to it really.

Tivoli is obvious, though once you’ve walked through it you’ve scratched that itch.

The old meat packing district was a bit edgy and seemed to have a few cool eateries. Warpigs id very much recommend if it’s still going and there’s Mikeller too if you like craft beer.

Nyhavn was a bit touristy and not as quaint as I thought it might be, we wandered to the Carlsberg site for curiosity and actually spent a lot of time in a Lego shop!

Christiania is a curious thing, we walked through it with bemused expressions and not seen anything like it.

Some ok old buildings which you’ll see just wandering the centre though I recall the oldest spire burnt down a while back.

I can’t actually recall much else of note about it to be honest. Oh and it is expensive.

Would I go back if I could, probably not but given the size of the city, you’ll certainly find enough to keep you going.

 

I came here to say Warpigs too… even if just for the meat!

 

Just be aware of Pickpockets its rife, i was in an around Stroget an ended up fighting one, well not a fight really i knocked the lovely person clean out. lovely place, great weekend

 

Wonderful, wonderful.
Sorry nivver been.

 

Hope you cut his hands off. That'll stop the ********.
One two hat pinched our lasses purse out of her handbag in Barcelona. Rife there n'all.
If I can advise anyone not aware of Spain. If using local busses. They are two hats for not queuing causing a mad rush for the front. Pickpockets dream.

 

Took Me a while to realise what you were talking about . But yes just noticed the typo

 

I had heard before going that you needed to watch your bags and pockets on the train from the airport. I wouldn’t say it feels that crimey in general though - even late at night it’s very much a high equality and low social problems culture. The Meatpacking area apparently contains the red light district and a number of programmes for drug addicts, but the signs of any are a lot less obvious than an UK city I’ve been to recently.

 

If you can hang on until October, we stumbled upon this by accident and it was amazing.

https://www.visitcopenhagen.com/copenhagen/planning/culture-night-gdk421149

We had a tour of the local prison, walked around the underground that was being built, a ghost tour of one of the Uni’s and free wine whilst chatting to a professor of Egyptology.

 

Been as a 20 year old, and again twice with work in the last couple of years. As others have mentioned, Tivoli is good (expensive) but go towards the evening so you can see it in daylight and again when the lights come on as it falls dark. If you fancy a day trip outside the city, trains go direct to Malmo. I enjoyed the walk along the waterfront - although watch for the swimmers and hope they wear clothes... Also watch out for people on bikes - at rush hour its cycle carnage everywhere!

Train or underground from the airport are quick and relatively cheap - the metro runs every 4-6 minutes during the day and its a 15 minute journey to the city centre.

Restaurants - when I went with the Mrs, we really enjoyed the Tokyo Japanese restaurant at 77 Vesterbrogade and as a work group we went to Delphine at 42 Vesterbrogade which was good. The 66 Guldsmelden hotel was also good and about a 10 minute walk from the station. We were working in the area though, so spent time around that part of the city.

Second time I went by myself and stayed somewhere whose name escapes me but it had the smallest hotel room I've ever stayed in. There was barely room to walk around the bed! Luckily it was only one night!

The EasyJet flights were very delayed when I flew with them. I was about 2 hours late each way - and driving over Woodhead at 3am isn't great...

Oh, and prepare to drink coffee... lots and lots of coffee. Every second place seems to be a coffee shop - Hygge is the official religion of Denmark.

 

The Duke of Wellington's horse.

 

We'll be visiting Copenhagen sometime late July/early August in our motorhome, we're doing a tour of central and eastern Europe and Scandinavia. My wife's sister has lived near Copenhagen for 30 years so she's going to give us a proper tour.