Kronborg Slot

Highly highly recommended. If you love castles this is a place to go. Make sure to take advantage of The Copehagen Card (free admissions to all the castles, metro, trains). Loved every place of this palace and especially loved the dungeons (sorry no dragons). Take advantage of the 30 mins guided tour as well. You come out having bit more knowledge than the rest of those that walk on their own! If you’re a fan of Shakespeare and Hamlet, this is a castle to go to.

Overall a standard castle, nothing especially spectacular as far the interior is concerned. Be prepared for a long bus ride from Copenhagen to get to the castle if taking a coach tour. The castle grounds are loved by the local and you will see lots of families having picnics in the summer.
Tip: be prepared to climb lots of stairs.

A must-​visit tourist attraction if you’re a Shakespeare fan, or if you just want to hear some really cool history about Denmark /​Sweden. I completely loved the Hamlet tour where you are guided around (and up and down) the castle by «Horatio» who retells you the story of Hamlet but «on location» in the various places. It was really neat to imagine the play in a new way with new backdrops to anything you might have seen before. Absolutely worth the money and a TOTAL blast!
Once you’ve taken the Shakespeare tour, grab the other tour to go through the castle and hear more about the history, the taxes that the kings put across the 3 mile stretch of water between Denmark and Sweden, and about the ridiculous materials used to make Kronborg. It’s beautiful, and has a lot of fascinating information to learn. Worth the trip!

Wanting to ensure we arrived in time for the English tour, my sister and I checked the website before our visit to confirm the time. We arrived with plenty of time before the tour was to begin, only to discover, too late, that the tour had already started, half an hour before the posted time!
We asked why the time had changed and were told that they change the tour times in April. That’s fine, but it was April 3, and we pointed out that the website had not been updated with the new times. We were incredibly unimpressed and pissed off – not wanting to waste time, as we had other things we wanted to do that day, we had specifically timed our arrival at the castle to catch the English tour, but now we were in the very situation we had tried to avoid – having to wait for quite some time for the next tour. Because we now had nearly hour until the casemates tour at 12:30pm, we decided to grab some lunch. We went into a small café on the castle grounds, and it was a very strange, almost uncomfortable, experience.
We entered the café, and at first we weren’t sure if it was even open – no one appeared to be in there, and we exited and then entered again, and finally, after 5 to 10 minutes, a woman came out of what I presume to be the kitchen. The woman was quite odd and despite being able to speak and understand English, she was having difficulty answering simple questions such as, «What kind of meat is in the soup?» We both ordered the soups on offer (I ordered the potato soup, as she couldn’t give me a definite answer about the kind of meat in the other soup), and while the soup was good, it took well over 20 minutes for her to serve the soup. We were the only customers in the café, and perhaps the long wait was because they had just opened and didn’t have the soup heated up, I don’t know, but it was a ridiculously long wait for soup. The wait was so long that despite having more than enough time for a quick lunch, we didn’t have enough time to finish our meal, and we were nearly late for the casemates tour!
The tour guide hosting the casemates tour was absolutely terrible, and we couldn’t understand a word he was saying because he was such a mumbly mush mouth, and sounded like a recovering stroke victim. So after wasting our time waiting an hour for this tour we left after five minutes, and decided to skip the castle tour, which is the tour we had originally come for.
I would have given the castle four or five stars, but the lying website and terrible tour guide really soured the experience. (If the castle grounds weren’t so beautiful, I would actually give this review two stars!) I do recommend visiting the castle, but don’t trust the website for tour times, and don’t waste your time going on the tour.

Kronborg Castle, a must see for Danish and tourists. A huge castle, where Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been played many times by all the biggies like Lawrence Olivier, Michael Cane etc.
It has the biggest courtyard you’ve ever seen and for real the biggest ballroom in northern Europe. The tour inside the castle can be done solo or guided, I always go solo. The route speaks for itself although later we later noticed that we had missed an important piece. Hmm. In the vast amount of vast rooms there’s an enormous quantity of huge tapestries on the walls. Really impressive.
You can walk around the castle that was an important strategic point in warfare and commerce in the old days. The batteries of canons speak of a violent past. Many ships must have been sunken out there in the Sont. It’s a fantastic walk, along the walls with the sound of the waves, the gulls and the fishing boats.
Very nicely assorted museum shop with insane prices again btw. A small knitted elf or gnome for € 30, — wowzers.
Very friendly staff and supposts in the castle.
3 stars iso 4 because overall the experience was a bit tame. After the many castles that I visited in Scotland and Wales this one didn’t give me that much of a historic feeling. Probably because this whole castle is restored into the original state about 90 years ago, which makes it look newly old, if you get my drift. And why showing me an empty kitchen of the castle?
If you stay in Kopenhagen this is a very good visit combined with the Louisiana museum in Humlebæk. The same train brings you to both. And both are included in the Kopenhagen Card! As well as the train.

We got to visit Kronborg Castle during a day long castle tour during our trip in Copenhagen. A castle tour has always been on my bucket list so I was very excited to visit. This was one of two castles we were able to go inside of and it did not disappoint. It is truly majestic. Our tour guide did a very good job of walking us around and giving us the background of the castle and its former inhabitants. My favorite highlights included visiting the chapel, walking through the ballroom, and just standing in the courtyard imagining what life must have been like for those who entered Kronborg 500 years ago.

My favorite of the castles that we saw in Denmark. This castle is included in the Copenhagen Card. The castle really towers over the small town and commands a great view over the area, into Sweden. I believe that there are different levels of paid admission if you only wanted to see the main rooms, or you can pay more to see the underground, the chapel, etc. The card covers everything though, and the castle is kept up very well. Lots of rooms to discover and viewpoints to take in. Keep in mind that you will need light for the underground catacombs level where the Holger statue is. I just used my phone but they sold flashlights there.

Absolutely spectacular place. There’s a lot of cool history here, plus you can see another country (!which, to this American, is strange and exotic). I won’t belabor all the history about the castle, its position, etc, but I will say that the museum is well worth the admission. For 75 kroner you’re allowed to tour the entire museum, including cathedral and the castle’s magazines where Holger Danske sleeps. The museum is very well done — nice clear labels with lots of information for everything, including some magnificent paintings and tapestries, both indicating important moments in Danish history as well as some more allegorical paintings. The ballroom in particular is truly awe inspiring. This was also the first museum (maybe I need to go to more) where they just told you to connect your cell phone to a local WiFi access point to download the audio guided tour — two or three minute snippets for the more important rooms with great information.
But the real win here was the Hamlet tour. For another 25 kroner I caught the 45 minute guided tour, which is delivered (at least in my case) by a very enthusiastic Horatio. The tour takes you through the castle, to places where you otherwise cannot go, and includes both an outstanding recap of Hamlet, with each scene recounted at the spot in the castle where it occurred in play, as well as more information about the castle and its association with Shakespeare. If every synopsis of a piece of literature was as engaging as this tour, more people would be better read, that’s for sure. It’s only the first real day of my vacation, but I’m not sure if I’ll spend a better $ 5 for the rest of the trip. I’d give the museum four stars, but the tour gets it five. It’s definitely something I’ll remember fondly.

Yes I was sucked into the historic significance of this place and it’s status as a medieval castle. When you’ve seen Fredriksborg Palace nothing else in the area compares. However to be on the edge of Sweden facing out into the sea, you can imagine the things that happened back in the day. I took a tour around the site but didnt go in as I was here after closing. Though it was closed, some of the groundskeeper left some of the doors on the north east side open and I suck in making like I was a lost tourist to see some of the things you’d not see :) strangely, no one came to yell or shoo me away. So I got a glimpse of some of the inner workings you’d only have if you worked there. The best part of the trip however happened right outside of the bridge. I encountered a man named Lund. He grew up in Jutland and then moved to Helsingor to become a sailor. He’d done it for 45 years until he retired. As I was celebrating my my birthday that very day, he was turning 90 shortly after. He’d been sailing longer than I’d been alive. We talked architecture, art, food, history, politics you name it. Im always impressed with the Danish fluency of English compared to many of the other EU countries and also the level of education. Our talk made my trip to Helsingor that much more interesting. So if you ever head up to an historic place like Kronborg, talk to a local that can recite you some of their own history around the place. It’s local knowledge you wont find in a web search.

Something was obviously rotten in Denmark but not this castle. Kronborg has of course come to symbolize Hamlet but in fact it’s much much more than that. Anytime I visiting a castle that has been standing for over 500 years I just have to be in awe. I highly suggest a trip up here as part of a day trip and then heading across to Sweden by ferry. When we went we got the Copenhagen card 24 hours (EUR 42) which includes admission to the Castle as well as unlimited train travel in the Copenhagen region. Our full day trip and this is only doable Tuesday-​Friday included Kronborg, ferry to Sweden and Louisiana (open till 2130 tu-​Fr and also included in Copenhagen card).

Learned that Hamlet = Danish… and spoke English?

leider war bei unserem ausflug zur kronborg fast de ganze innenhof aufgerissen und auch der direkte weg auf das schlossgelaende war wegen massiver bauarbeten verlegt aber dennoch hat es sich gelohnt. die kronborg ist beeindruckend und schoen, man hat einen tollen blick auf den oeresund und ich persoehnlich war begeistert von der fast greifbaren historie die die ganze anlage ausstrahlt. sehenswert

Nice historic building with a lot of interesting stories.

It’s awesome that you can visit a very well-​kept castle from 500 years ago. If you can spare some extra time while you’re in Copenhagen, you should come up here. One warning though, the city of Helsingor is not exciting, so don’t plan on staying for anything fun.
When we were there, the inside of the castle was closed. It looks interesting from the pictures. we walked around the park and the interior courtyard all the way out to the Sea. The rock beach on seaside has a stellar view of Helsingborg that you’ll share with dozens of people fishing in the cold water.

«To be, or not to be – that is the question:
Whether ‘Ti’s nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them…»
Kronborg is known as Hamlet’s Castle in all the bus tour pamphlets because Shakespeare set his classic tragedy here and called it Elsinore. And as you approach it from the parking lot and walk through the expansive courtyard, you do get a foreboding sense of drama and the echoes of the Bard’s words. I decided to take a half-​day tour of the castle which turned out to be mostly the drive out to Helsingør where you pass by the tonier suburbs of Copenhagen. These gated enclaves are where local celebrities and blue-​bloods reside in their elaborate coastal estates.
Interestingly, there is no guide on the bus, just a recording that the driver stops and starts depending on where he is on the route. It was raining hard when we arrived at the castle, and there is a long walk around the perimeter in order to get to the entrance. Admission is 95 DKK (Danish krone) or about $ 17. Once inside, we were given about an hour to stroll the halls and get back to the bus. As you would expect, there are long hallways with ornate fixtures and some unusual features like holograms that portray life in the 17^th century when King Frederick II had the medieval fortress radically transformed into a magnificent Renaissance castle.
I sprinted through the castle rather quickly since there wasn’t that much in the way of furnishings or historical explanation, at least without a guide telling me what to appreciate about what I was looking at. There is a chapel worth visiting as well as a row of cannons aimed seaward toward Sweden just 4 km across the Øresund, the closest point between the two Scandinavian countries. Apparently, there have been several stagings of Hamlet in the courtyard, so that would be worthwhile to seek out to coincide with your visit if possible. On the way back to the bus, I stopped in the charming café, which looks like it was once a horse stable.
During a break in the rain, I bought their house-​made Apple Trifle and ate it in the back patio (see photo). It was a delicious and unexpected treat in an idyllic setting. We were immediately trundled off to see the entrance to the stately Fredensborg Palace where the Danish royal family holds their state dinners. Walking up to the gate was all we could do there given our limited time, hardly worth the stop. In hindsight, I should have thrown more caution to the wind and taken the train to Kronborg, so I could have stopped en route at the very serene-​looking modern art museum, Louisiana. Oh well, Hamlet had to suffer the slings and arrows of more outrageous fortune than a boring tour bus ride.

très bel édifice changeant des autres agréable promenade sur les fortifications en bord de mer il y aussi un musée de la marine

Ein wunderschöner Ort. Leider waren einige Bauarbeiten. Im Moment wird auch direkt nebenan ein Museum gebaut.
Wenn dort alles fertig ist, wird es noch schöner! ;-)
Ein Besuch ist auf jeden Fall zu empfehlen!

Mich hat das Schloss sehr beeindruckt, aber es war total überlaufen. Scheinbar hatte ich einen schlechten Tag erwischt.
Außerdem war ein großer Teil der Anlage unzugänglich, wegen Bauarbeiten.
Ein geschichtsträchtiges Schloss.

Bekannt aus Hamlet, einen Abstecher in Helsingør garantiert wert. Am Tag meines Besuches waren ganz wenige Touristen dort, man konnte sich in Ruhe umsehen. Sehr beeindruckend, ein sehr schönes und gut renoviertes Schloss.
Nur 4 Km von Helsingborg (Schweden) auf Seelinie entfernt, man kann die schwedische Küste von dort aus mit bloßem Auge betrachten.