At the risk of stating the obvious, you must try to spend at least one day in the centre of Copenhagen. Stroll along the longest pedestrianised shopping street in Europe, and visit the Tivoli Gardens. The Little Mermaid sculpture is a little disappointing being overshadowed by the docklands across the water.

Take a trip on the Oresund Bridge to Malmo, and maybe return by passenger ferry if going out by train rather than driving.

Graham

'Factory tour'!

I guess you know, that you can't just walk into the factory and ask for a 'tour'.

There are arranged tours - but not very often.

Check this site for details:

link

Or contact the Struer tourist info in advance.

For the museum look here:

link

MM

Maybe we are big kids at heart but we thoroughly enjoyed Legoland at Bilund

I had high ideals for Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen, but I was very disappointed by how run down it was --- democracy is a difficult at any time so having a drug culture / agenda greatly hinders progress (it seems).

Can't say we found the Copenhagen shopping mall impressive. We enjoyed the galleries but were amazed at how "dead" the place was on a Sunday -- and our disappointment (or citizens' absence in the country / islands) was compounded by Monday being equally "dead" on account of it being a religious holiday.

We did make use of a tour bus but it was not as informative & valuable as in Berlin (different scales, less "universal" history).

Missed out on the Carlsburg tour so can't comment.

We loved the drive up to Skagan and the night and day we spent there - it was one of our highlights.

We should have spent a similar time at Aarhus.

We drove down the coast to a replica Viking village and enjoyed that. Together with the lunch stop at Strandingsmuseum St. George near Thorsminde.

We want to return - mainly to enjoy the villages and history and nature of Jutland.

Millemissen wrote:

I guess you know, that you can't just walk into the factory and ask for a 'tour'.

Thanks MM. I was aware and have emailed the tourist office about one of the dates in August, but you were right to check!

vikinger wrote:

At the risk of stating the obvious, you must try to spend at least one day in the centre of Copenhagen. Stroll along the longest pedestrianised shopping street in Europe, and visit the Tivoli Gardens. The Little Mermaid sculpture is a little disappointing being overshadowed by the docklands across the water.

Take a trip on the Oresund Bridge to Malmo, and maybe return by passenger ferry if going out by train rather than driving.

Thanks Graham, our itinerary is totally open at the moment, and I won't be booking anything until I've heard back from the Struer tourist office about the factory tour, but we were thinking we'd either fly into Hamburg and back from Copenhagen or both into and back from Copenhagen - and either way with a view to spending a couple of days in Copenhagen at one end of the trip (without the hire car as I guess it is likely to be more of a hindrance than a help in the city).

We've added your suggestions to our list and I'm already beginning to think we might end up wanting more than a week away to fit everything in 😕

Cheers,

Martin.

 

 

Thanks elephant, plenty of useful info there. I was looking at the maps and wondered whether we ought to head up to Skagen just so we didn't miss out the whole North-East corner of the Country, so it is great to hear it was one of your highlights and well worth a visit, and it sounds like it is worth spending a night or two at Aarhus.

We're more and more coming to the conclusion that 9 or 10 nights would be more appropriate than 7, and allow us to travel around and stop in places without feeling like we're just ticking them off a list of places visited. Our thinking behind flying into Hamburg and back from Copenhagen is that it would allow us to take a roughly clockwise tour around the country without too much duplication of route.

Thanks to everyone who has responded so far, it is really useful to receive all these suggestions.

Martin.

 

 

 

My pleasure Martin.

We were advised to hire from and return the car to the same country to minimise the hire firms internal costs and therefore surcharges.  May or may not be true: none the less it influenced us coming up from Hannover.

I would fly early into Bilund, stay in the Legoland hotel overnight, then drive clockwise, first heading south west to the Viking village etc, then to Struer, Skagen, Arhus, Copenhagen, and then absolutely go to Sweden for a couple of days before flying out of Copenhagen.

Certainly don't miss out Skagen!

From Struer drive west through Lemvig and head north through Thyborøn (crossing the place, where the 'Limfjord' meets the see (Vesterhavet). Then continue further north 'till you reach Skagen.

From there you could take the 'motorway' south through Aalborg to Århus - which is definitely worth a couple of days. Take a walk through the older part of the city (called 'Latinerkvarteret'). There you find the best cafées and small shops.

By the way - you will find 2 B&O shops there, not far from each other. Be sure to visit the art museum (called Aros) and take a walk high-up along the many-coloured glass gangway. If you are interested, do visit 'Den gamle by' - the museum with old buildings from all parts of Denmark. There you can also find a (newly opened) street with houses and homes from the sixties - including a 'radio and tv shop' like they were 50 years ago.

If your plans (and your time) allows for it - do visit the old town Ribe (drive west to Esbjerg and then south) and drive further south/west to see the 'Vadehavet' by Højer. That is a part of the countryside, where you can experience the influences of 'ebb and flow'.

If Hans Christian Andersen is of any interest, stop by in Odense, when you head east for Copenhagen. Nice city - worth visiting.

Don't use your (hired) car in Copenhagen - walk or use the bus! Lots of things to see and visit in the capital of Denmark!!!

If you want to make a short visit to Sweden too, go north from Copenhagen, stop by at Helsingør (visit the castle) and go by ferry to Hälsingborg (a very short trip). From there go south to Malmö, and take the long bridge to Copenhagen.

You will be very close to the Airport (Kastrup) after arriving in Denmark again.

This might help you explore Denmark - I hope!

Have a safe journey 🙂

MM is right about the car in Copenhagen! Ours sat in the hotel's garage for 3 days - costing parking & rental fees ! Might be better to plan around two hirings !

If you are interested in modern art, then I recommend a visit to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. It's about a 20min drive north of Copenhagen, located on a headland with great views over the sea.

Lawrence