What We Visited With the 48-Hour Copenhagen Card – Part 3

Date: July 12, 2018 and July 13, 2018
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
B.A.Livin’ Savings: ~$475 total over three days
48 hour Copenhagen Card: 1,188 DKK Danish Krone – per person (48 hour Copenhagen Card cost 568 DKK and to pay individually for the museums and transportation would have cost 1,757 DKK)

72 hour Copenhagen Card: 1,838 DKK Danish Krone – per person (72 hour Copenhagen Card cost 689 DKK and to pay individually for the museums and transportation would have cost 2,527 DKK)

What We Visited With the 48-Hour Copenhagen Card – Part 3

On our third day, we left the Airbnb just before 9:00 am and took a bus to the Church of Our Saviour, Vor Frelsers Kirke. Brian’s 48-hour Copenhagen Card was set to expire at 1pm, while my 72-hour card had another 24 hours until the following day.

On the way up the tower we passed numerous bells.

The last 150 steps are on the outside of the spire.

You go up and down the same stairs. Fortunately, we did not see many other people during our visit up the tower that morning.

Within the tower there is also a room that was playing a short cartoon with the church history, narrated by a puffin. At the end of the cartoon, the puffin reminds you to go inside the church and see if you can find him. Can you find him in the picture below?

Here is the puffin.

We then went to the City Hall for the 11am tour up to the tower.

Here are the last stairs to get to the tower.

This is looking over Tivoli Gardens.

From City Hall we then went to Rosenborg Castle. There was a line to get in and we had to get a ticket with an entrance time upon arrival, but we only needed to wait about 30 minutes for the next opening. The castle also included tours of the treasury where Christian IV’s crown from 1596 is on display, as well as the absolute monarchy crowns from 1671 and 1731.

That concludes what we did with the 48-hour Copenhagen Card. Brian had the 48-hour card so he then went back to the Airbnb. I continued see attractions with my 72-hour Copenhagen Card.

What I Visited With the 72-Hour Copenhagen Card

After Rosenborg Castle I went to the Geological Museum. The museum began with information about the solar system. This picture shows a timeline of the universe over 12 hours. Humans don’t come into existence till 11:59:59.75.

There is an exhibit about dinosaurs. I didn’t realize that so many dinosaurs eggs had been found. We saw dinosaur eggs in Venice museums as well.

These are the pictures the museum had of various dinosaurs.

After the Geological Museum, I went towards Amalienborg Palace. I went past Frederik’s Church.

Here is Amalienborg Palace square.

The Amalienborg museum rooms all had a lot in them.

After Amalienborg, I went to the Design Museum Danmark. Danmark is the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish name for the country of Denmark. I liked seeing all the different chair designs in the museum.

I then went to the Amber Museum Copenhagen. The museum was small, but there was information about how amber is found washed up on beaches as it floats in water. Here is a ship made out of amber.

I then went to the Copenhagen Zoo. In the zoo, the brown bear was very active.

The bear played with a barrel and I saw him in the water as well.

This monkey was digging in the rock pile for something.

You can go into an area with kangaroos.

The tiger was walking around.

There was a baby elephant.

And a baby zebra. There also was a baby giraffe not pictured.

In the summer, there is also a sand sculpture festival. Here are a few of the sand sculptures.

This day wasn’t as long as the day before but I walked over 10 miles.

July 13, 2018

My 72-hour Copenhagen Card ended at 12:59 pm. I left the Airbnb a little before 9am and went to Christiansborg Palace. The palace had a few exhibits.

I started by going to the Royal Reception Rooms. The rooms are still used today. Here is Alexander hall.

This is the queen’s library.

Up next were the Ruins Under Christiansborg Palace. I saw an old water pipe that was a hollowed-out tree trunk.

You can go into the Royal Kitchen and see how it was furnished in 1937. Gala dinners are still held in Christiansborg Palace, but now the food is prepared elsewhere and brought to the palace.

The last part of Christiansborg Palace that I went to was The Royal Stables. The horses are in the pasture in the summer, but I was still able to see the carriages.  Here is the gold coach that the queen uses each year for the New Year’s reception in January.

The last place that I visited with the 72-hour Copenhagen Card was The National Museum. The museum is very big with items from the stone age, viking age, middle ages, the renaissance and modern danish history.

With everything we saw the Copenhagen Card was well worth it, saving us nearly $475 USD for only the museums and attractions that we took advantage of. Even if we had decided to take the attractions in more slowly, the 120-hour Copenhagen Card would have still saved us money. If you plan on visiting any of these museums in Copenhagen, definitely check out the Copenhagen Card!