World City Guide

Tours of the City

Walking Tours
In summer (May/June to September), there are various specialist walking tours; information is available from Wonderful Copenhagen. For example, it is possible to step back in time and walk the streets with Hans Christian Andersen (tel: 3284 7435; cost: Dkk75 for 90-minute tour) or with the nightwatchman on one of the Old Nightwatchman’s Rounds (tel: 3964 4894; cost: Dkk50 for 90-minute tour).

Throughout the year on Saturdays and Sundays, Copenhagen Walking Tours (tel: 4081 1217; e-mail: info@copenhagen-walkingtours.dk; website: www.copenhagen-walkingtours.dk) operate two-hour English-language tours costing around Dkk100. These start from Bernstorffsgade and cover a range of interests, such as ‘Highlights of the Old City’, ‘Rosenborg Castle’, ‘Historic Copenhagen’ or ‘Romantic Copenhagen’. Between June and August, they also operate on Thursdays and Fridays.

Guided tours of Christiania, the ‘Free City of Copenhagen’ (tel: 3257 9670; fax: 3257 6005; website: www.christiania.org), depart from the main gate, at 1500 Saturday and Sunday only. The tours are guided by a resident of the commune, take approximately 90 minutes and cost Dkk30 per person; group tours can be booked at this email address: bestilling@rundvisergruppen.dk or by fax (minimum Dkk180).

Bus Tours
Copenhagen Excursions (tel: 3266 0000; e-mail: info@sightseeing.dk; website: www.sightseeing.dk) organises a number of bus tours around the city, lasting from one to two and a half hours and starting at Dkk100. The company also operates the Open Top Tours, one-hour, hop-on, hop-off multilingual tours of all the main sights in the centre of Copenhagen.

Boat Tours
Boat tours through the harbour and canal networks around Christianshavn and Slotsholmen explain the importance of water in the life and history of the city.

DFDS Canal Tours (tel: 3296 3000; fax: 3296 9350; e-mail: canaltours@canaltours.dk; website: www.canal-tours.dk) operates multilingual guided tours of the harbour and the canal; boats depart every half hour daily April to October from Nyhavn or Gammel Strand. Tours last about 50 minutes and cost Dkk50. They also operate hop-on hop-off Waterbus tours without guides. There are two routes, which both depart from Nyhavn; a one-day pass for both routes costs Dkk45. The same company also offers a two-hour two-course ‘Dinner Cruise’ taken on-board an elegant restaurant boat, offering a two-course menu while cruising through historic maritime Copenhagen.

Netto Boats (tel: 3254 4102; website: www.netto-baadene.dk) offers a one-hour guided tour of the harbour and canals for Dkk30. Boats depart frequently April to October from outside Holmens Church, opposite the Old Stock Exchange, and from Nyhavn.

Bicycle Tours
City Safari (tel: 3323 9490; e-mail: citysafari@citysafari.dk; website: www.citysafari.dk) offers a number of themed bicycle tours, including ‘The Historic Copenhagen’. They last for three hours and cost Dkk250. More extensive tours include ‘Round Carlsberg’, ‘In the Footsteps of Hans Christian Andersen’ or ‘The Big Architecture Ride’ (all Dkk320 and four and a half hours). Most tours operate May to September. They are in Danish and English and start from the Danish Centre for Architecture in the Gammel Dok Storehouse on Christianshavn (credit cards not accepted).

Other Tours
Kayak Sightseeing (tel: 4050 4006; fax: 3254 1440; e-mail: kajakole@mail.tele.dk; website: www.kajakole.dk) offers guided tours of Copenhagen’s waterways in kayaks with professional instructors, which depart from the canal behind the opera building on Holmen and last from 90 minutes to three hours, costing between Dkk165 and Dkk210.