Copenhagen hotels and day trips

I recently had a very nice stay at the Copenhagen Strand Hotel.

https://www.copenhagenstrand.com/

Roskilde, with its medieval center, Viking Ship Museum, and cathedral where all the monarchs of Denmark are interred—makes for a great daytrip.

Roskilde is just 25 minutes by train from Copenhagen.

There is a lot of options for day trips, so it depends on who’s traveling and what their interests are.

Roskilde is a good suggestion, with the Viking Ship Museum + Cathedral. I support this recommendation.

You can also look at:
- Hillerød: Frederiksborg Slot (not to be confused with Frederiksberg Slot in Copenhagen)
- Helsingør: Kronborg Slot (inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet) and Maritime Museum (though I have not been to this myself)
- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk or Arken Museum of Contemporary Art in Ishøj

And a bit farther, but still doable as a day trip:
- Odense: H. C. Andersen’s House (about 1h15m by train)
- Car might be recommended for these: Møns Klint (UNESCO World Heritage chalk cliffs) + GeoCenter Møns Klint or Stevns Klint (also UNESCO World Heritage chalk cliffs, but not as majestic as Møns Klint), can be combined with a stop at Cold War Museum Stevnsfortet

Some also cross Øresund and visit the Swedish neighbors, in towns/cities such as Lund, Malmö or Helsingborg.

This is not an exhaustive list. I could go on, but I also don’t want to get too carried away in my reply. I hope you find some good inspiration in this nevertheless.

You don’t need a full day for all of these, so you can combine some. E.g. Hillerød + Helsingør, Helsingør + Louisiana, Helsingør + Helsingborg, and so on.

If you like living history museums:

https://frilandsmuseet.dk/en

You can go and look for trolls. thomasdambo.com

We really enjoyed Hotel Phoenix which is only a couple of blocks from the Nyhavn area. It was also walkable to the Fredricksberg Castle, Amalienborg area, the Marble Church, Little Mermaid Statue, and Danish Resistance museum. It was easy to take public transportation to Tivoli Gardens. We loved Copenhagen and the Stromma canal cruise was great!

When we were in Copenhagen we took the train to Hillerod and the bus to the Fredricksborg Castle but were disappointed because much of it was under scaffolding, and the gardens were not in good condition. Some of the other day trips mentioned might be better.

Some day trips we have enjoyed:
-Helsingor Castle and Louisiana Museum (easy to do these both together)
-Roskilde
-Malmo (Sweden)- you get to take the train across the Oresund Bridge which is an experience in itself

Last August we stayed at the Hotel Kong Arthur for 3 nights. It was a good location, nice rooms, very good breakfast, but no AC.

I would recommend it.

https://arthurhotels.com/hotel-kong-arthur/

Copenhagen seems to only ever have satisfied hotel guests. Several decades have gone by and I never hear about any complaints or experience anything out of the ordinary myself. Surely someone must have been dissatisfied once over the last half century, since 1972, but it is just about conceivable that Copenhagen is the hotel guests paradise, the only destination on earth where you can trust each and every hotel to be everything they claim to be. I almost always stay in the Vesterbrogade area, at Hotel Tiffany and its counterparts.

DAY TRIP TO:
- Malmö, using the international commuter train (frequent departures). Malmö has beaches, is very spacious and is much bigger than Lund, which I find quite cramped. Swim at Västra Hamnen and have gelato (walk along the waters edge until you get there) OR swim at Ribersborgsstranden, a family friendly, long, long, long sandy beach with many wooden piers. Walk in the parks and buy pastries.

• Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. This could be the best museum of modern art there is, as the whole train journey there, past the old quaint coastal suburbs puts you in a contemplative mood and prepares you for the experience. It may not be the biggest, but it has feeling and charm in abundance. I feel now that I must return. No other museum of its kind has come close to providing such a unique and fulfilling experience, including the vast flora of museums to be found in central London (UK).