Tips for Hamburg, Copenhagen and Stockholm with teen

[HerbertVonDoodlebug]

Planning a summer trip to these cities with teen DC! Interests: outdoor stuff, food, animals, quirky shops (not clothes, think more Lego store etc!)

if anyone can hit me up with great places to visit and eat (apart from the obvious tourist spots) in these cities that would be fabulous 🙏

In Hamburg, definitely Miniatur Wunderland and Chocoversum (you have to book onto a specific tour, they do some English tours). You can also do a tour out to see the seals.

Second Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg. If you can, do the posh VR package-it is seriously good and your child will be bowled over (head to toe VR experience with full haptics) Copenhagen - we hired e-bikes everywhere as v easy to cycle. Recommend the massive food hall. Train to Malmo over the massive bridge pretty cool/also overnight ferry to Oslo via the Oslo fjord pretty good if you have time.

Mine enjoyed designing their own mini fig in the Lego store in Copenhagen! Lego store is not far from Tivoli Gardens, which was also a hit, as were Danish hot dogs.

There's loads of food markets around Copenhagen which are good and slightly cheaper than eating out in restaurants. Food is expensive so we did a lot of lunches and snacks as food to go from Netto or the 7-11 shops which are all over the city. There's a zoo in Copenhagen and lots of lovely parks. A lot of hotels have bikes to hire or there's some of those schemes where you take one from the street.

Take a harbour tour in Copenhagen - and also take a dip!

The museum with the gold room in Stockholm is amazing. (Historika Museet). Also the Vasa is AMAZING. And Gamla Stan is full of quirky shops.

I like the Nobel museum too. Especially the children’s section - they let adults play too.

These all sound great! Thanks!

Vasa museum in Stockholm is amazing. He will love it. Give it a google.

Harbour tour in Hamburg. Are your teens interested in any music. Hamburg hosts lots of events big mainstream and smaller niche ones worth looking out for.

Battleship Vasa. One of the best things I've ever seen- up there with The Forbidden City and Mount Everest on my Best Things I've Ever Seen list.

Tivoli in copenhagen!

Stockholm has Skansen ( big hilly park with lots of lovely things like otters and bears and craft workshops) also a theme park/fair near to the Vasa and Abba museum and lovely boat trips out to the archipelago .

copenhagen ( we lived there) has a great zoo, lovely acquarium, Tivoli, Bakken ( big oldest theme park in world) Hansel and gretel type setting with deer etc and 2 minutes walk to a fantastic sandy beach( 15 minutes on train) - you also have Amager strand - lovely white beach with beach bars etc and a big interactive museum type place for kids up in Hellerup ( train or bus about 15 minutes up the coast) and the Viking museum at Roskilde ( 20 minutes on train)

For eating with teens in Hamburg, I’d recommend Underdocks and Ti Breizh

The obvious attraction that you need to fit into your itinerary is a detour via Billund in Denmark for the Lego House and Legoland. Lego House is the #1 for teens who are into Lego - there are millions of bricks to experiment with as well as an animation studio and other interactive things like building a crazy Lego fish and then scanning it into a virtual aquarium. The original Legoland is also better and far less crowded than the UK version, so if you have sufficient time, taking two days to visit Billund is well worth it.

The train from Hamburg to Copenhagen goes via Kolding or Fredericia, from where there are connections to Vejle and then an express bus to Billund. (There are a couple of other options as well - all of which you can see on the DSB website: rejseplanen.dk). If you are driving, then the route is Hamburg-Kolding-Billund.

Vasa in Stockholm is a must-see. There is also the Viking longship museum at Roskilde, which is an easy day-trip from Copenhagen.