Copenhagen Travel Tips & Ideas

It is a bit expensive. Does she have a car? Parking is hard.

We found quaint grocery stores and made picnics. The city is very walkable and picturesque.

It has been many many years, but these were some of the places I visited.  We had no car and took the Ferry from Sweden to Helsingor Denmark and then the train from there.  We took day trips for the most part so I can’t help any with accommodations and it has been so long anyway. 

But as far as tourists sites we went to:
The Carlseberg Brewery
Tivoli
Saw the Little Mermaid
The Round Tower

And mostly just did a lot of walking around and looking. Hopefully you will get a lot more updated information.  I hope your daughter has a great time

Also the round tower was good, but one of my favorite things was walking up the spire at Church of our Savior.

We also did a boat tour and just walked around the city and canals. Tivoli Gardens at night was really special. We also rented bikes and did a lot of happy hours!! It’s very expensive and everyone speaks English.

We stayed near Nyhavn, which is the picturesque spot when one thinks of Copenhagen with all the boats/channels, at the Copenhagen Strand hotel, right along the water. It was a great location and easy to get around, trains are easy. Things to do: canal tour, royal castles/palaces, King's gardens, round tower, torvehallerne (food market), museum, library (the black diamond), garden behind libarary, bakeries, cafes, etc. It's very walkable and bicycles are their main mode of transportation. It's also known for fine dining/michelin restaurants, but we had great meals everywhere, the Olive was good and La Vecchia Signora was authentic Italian, great pizza.

OK, I found the info. DD and I flew over in June, the week before her class started. We spent 2 days in CPH, then took the train to Stockholm, spent 2 days there, and then took a train to visit a friend an hour south outside of STKM. I felt 2 days in CPH was plenty and 2 days in STK was good. If we didn't have to get back for her class, or not seen my friend, we could have had 1 day more per city. I would have liked to see some of the outlying castles, like Hamlet's castle.

Couple of things: when we got to Copenhagen, we were zombies and we couldn't check into our hotel until 3. They kept our bags, but I had my backpack with me, so we decided to grab lunch and then do the hop on/hop off bus. You can buy 24 hr passes or 48, etc. We were going to buy 24 hr passes but it was towards the end of the day for ticket sales, and the agent did us a solid and gave us 48 hr passes for the price of 24 hrs. Parliment was also closed the following day due to an election they had, so we bought tix to see that as well, on that Monday. So we got on the bus and did the loop, hitting the Little Mermaid statue and the started the loop again to go back to see Parliment.

The next day, we got on the bus again and got off at the stops that we wanted. The problem is the loop travels in one direction and is (I think) 1.5-2hrs long, so if you want to backtrack, so we would pick a spot and then sometimes walk to the location. So we went to Amalieborg Palace (royal residence), walked to Rosenburg (crown jewels - I will say the crown jewels of Denmark and Sweden are NOTHING compared to Germay or UK. I was like... this is it?), and then took the bus to finish the loop to go to Church of Our Savior (we climbed the steeple which was terrifying! and unfortunately the actual church was closed). At some point we went to Tivoli and Nyhavn too.

We stayed right in the Town Hall square, by Tivoli, but that city is SUPER easy to walk. We actually never bought public transportation bc we had that bus pass for so long. DD did have it for her class and said it was super easy too, but EVERYTHING is on the phone, and I didn't have a data package, she did.

Things I would have liked to see but didn't have time for: National Museum, Glyptoteket Museum, the Elephant Gate, and The Round Tower (she did all these things without me).

We stayed at The Square Hotel in CPH, I probably paid way too much for it, but honestly, the location was superb. I was looking for safe and clean for 2 women, plus convienent to transporation, which was dumb bc that basically describes the whole city! LOL

In Stockholm, we did not do the hop on/hop off bus. We were insane and walked from Gamla Stan to the Vasa Museet, which was probably 45 min walk, not awful. The walk was lovely, and we stopped and grabbed lunch there. We spent a lot of time at the Vasa (#1 rec, DO NOT MISS) and next to the National Museum (which is very viking heavy). We skipped National Muset to go to ABBA which was SO MUCH FUN. DD was kinda of bored but she doesn't know the music (I have failed as a mother...). We did have to ask for help to get a bus back to our hotel bc we were just too worn out to walk back. We did way too much IMO that day, I would have broken up the days and done Vasa/Abba/National Museum maybe on another day, but we had plans to go see my college friend, and ended up doing the City Hall Tower tour before we left Stockholm. We wanted to climb Storkrykan, BUT they dont open that until summer and they consider summer after Solstice, LOL so we missed it by 2 days. It was a cloudy day anyway.... I think the Nobel museum is fine, but its not as cool as it should be. Its a lot of donated stuff from nobel winners but may not have had anything to do with the project they got the prize for.

We stayed at the Hobo hotel, which again, I probably paid too much for, but the location was outstanding.

We went back to CPH and we stayed at a Copenhagen to Go very close to the airport. which had I known how easy it was to get to the airport, I would have stayed someplace within the city or nicer. We kind of wasted the day but we were so tired anyway, we just grabbed some dinner and then rested.

Hope this helps!

My sister and I were just in Copenhagen in July. We also stayed at The Strand. I would definitely stay there again. Great breakfasts! Nice room and very convenient to everything. It's a 5 minute walk from Nyhavn. We walked everywhere or borrowed bikes from the hotel. The day it rained, they had umbrellas for us to use. Our grandparents were Danish and our grandfather and family were from Copenhagen so I wanted to see the places they lived. Our 5 times great grandfather was baptized in the church attached to the Round Tower in 1788. Our grandmother used to love to go to concerts at Tivoli Gardens in the early 1900s.