The Travel Nut

For our final port, we actually had 2 days here. One full day, an overnight and a second full day. This was much better than having just 1 day. It meant we could stay out much later in the evening, rather than be back on the ship by 5pm-6pm (depending on port).

If you want to read the full blog on the whole two week cruise around Northern Europe and Scandinavia, click here.

Day 1 – As we had the 2 days here, we decided to book a hop-on hop-off bus. We did this at the port once we left the boat, they had a stand straight outside. From the port, the bus would start and cover the full route, but on return, you had to go to stop 12, where you’d pick up a shuttle bus back to the boat terminal – this is just to save other passengers having to go all the way to port, when they are not on the cruise.

For the first day we wanted to spend the majority of the day in Tivoli Gardens, but as it didn’t open until 11am, we stopped off at a few other places on the way, including the Lego shop which is next to one of the entrances.

Tivoli Gardens gives you choice when entering. You can either pay for park entrance only, or you can buy a pass for rides alongside the entrance which is what we opted for. If however there was only 1 or 2 rides you wanted to try, there are machines dotted around the park where you can buy credits for a specific ride – good option if you are on a budget. And even if you don’t like rides, the gardens themselves are worth a visit, the grounds are beautiful.

After a wander around and plenty of rides, we headed to The Anarkist for lunch. You can access this as part of the park, but you can also access this from street level without having to enter the park. We would highly recommend paying them a visit, as the food was delicious! They also offered vegan options which meant we could all eat at the same place, and the craft beers were beautiful.

While lunch settled, we spent some more time wandering the gardens, before heading on some more rides.

As the afternoon went on, the park become busier, so we decided to leave to have a look around the rest of the local area, before returning for the illuminations at the park later in the evening. You are allowed to re-enter on the same day providing you get a stamp – so please don’t forget to get these!

While out, we also had some dinner in a lovely little restaurant, which ended up being a tapas style dinner – again, would highly recommend this place!

After some dinner we returned to the park for the illuminations. As this was so late, the hop-on hop-off buses had actually finished for the evening, so we ended up getting a taxi back to the ship, which cost approx £25.

Day 2 – For our second and final day in Copenhagen, we decided to get up early and straight to Nyhavn. This is where the famous colourful houses along the canal are located. Even though it was early, there were already hundreds of people there, so bare this in mind!

After a few photos, we booked a cruise along the canal – this was done at the canal. We paid £21 for all 4 of us to do the canal trip – absolute bargain!! All you need to do is queue for a ticket, and then queue to join the boat. It was quite a big boat, lots of people and there was a tour guide advising us about the areas as we passed by. We didn’t have to wait long at all, 20 minutes max until we got on the next available boat. It was so worth it!

After the boat trip, we had more photos by the houses (sorry not sorry!).

We then headed across the harbour bridge towards Broens Street Food Market. There was loads of choice for different types of food – something for everyone! Lovely views over the water, and there were loads of tables and a choice to sit in the sun or under some shade (which we chose as it was boiling!).

From here, we walked back towards Nyhavn and picked up the hop-on hop-off bus to explore some of the other sights we had in mind, including the Kastellet fortress and the little mermaid statue.

After a jam packed 2 days, we headed back to the ship early evening for some dinner and a show.

Oh, and the little mermaid, here’s an ‘insta vs reality’ of the statue. We originally saw the back of the statue from the canal cruise we went on earlier in the day – and at that point decided not to visit it due to how busy it was there. As it happens, our hop-on hop-off pass required us to get the shuttle back to the ship from that statue stop, so we had to see it as we were there. It was still total chaos, but did manage to get a picture!

The final 2 days on board were full sea days whilst we made our way back towards Southampton where we would be docking early morning (6am on the Friday). Once again, we really did make the most of enjoying the things the ship has to offer; pool, swimming, golf, shows, art gallery etc – the list goes on and on!

If you’d like more information about any of the destinations visited, or want to book your own cruise or holiday, please either comment on this blog, or you can contact me via my page Lisa Craddock Experience It Now Travel.