To the Danes: Ferry Puttgarden to Rodbyhaven

[Umfriend]

Do the ferries to and fro Denmark run regularly and are there long queus? Does one need to have reservations? Does it differ between ferries or are all just regular service with, generally, no waiting times? Same for those between Germany and Sweden to and fro Denmark? I need to get to Sweden from the Netherlands.

Any help appreciated.

Umf

[JTD]

Do the ferries to and fro Denmark run regularly and are there long queus? Does one need to have reservations? Does it differ between ferries or are all just regular service with, generally, no waiting times? Same for those between Germany and Sweden to and fro Denmark? I need to get to Sweden from the Netherlands.

Any help appreciated.

Umf

Scandlines are sailing every 30 min. between Puttgarden and Rødby.
You can see times and waiting time here: http://www.scandlines.dk/DKFront/Front_COM
You don't need to book a time, although if there is a long que it might be good idea.
At night there shouldn't be any waiting time, but during the day there most likely is.

For an alternative route, you could drive up through Jylland then across Fyn and get to Sjælland by crossing the Great Belt bridge (http://www.storebaelt.dk/kollage/english.)

When going from Denmark to Sweden, you can either use the Øresunds bridge (http://osb.oeresundsbron.dk/frontpage/?lang=1) bewteen Copenhagen and Malmoe or you can drive to Helsingoer and sail to Helsingborg (the above link to Scandlines also cover the Helsingoer-Helsingborg route), it all depends on where you're going when you get to Sweden.

[Umfriend]

Many many thanks.

We're going north of Karlstadt. Was planning on going Puttgarden-Rodby, Copenhagen-Malmo, stay the night and then north. Alternatively I could go to frederikshaven and then to Gotenborg.

If I understand you correctly, just hopping on a ferry is generally no big deal, at the risk of some waiting time?

[JTD]

It shouldn't be a big deal on the shorter routes (like Puttgarden-Roedby and Helsingoer-Helsingborg), after all they sail every 30 min. so it's only a limited time you would have to wait for the next ferry.

I never thought of Frederikshavn-Goteborg (maybe because i don't live any where near Frederikshavn ), but since that's a longer route, i think you would need a reservation (at least to be sure you don't have to wait a long time).

Since it's summertime, there could be a bit more people than on other times of the year, but it's really hard to say.

If you want to avoide waiting time all together, you could drive all the way to Malmo by using the 2 large bridges (Great Belt and Oresund).

[Chris B]

Like JTD said, on the shorter routes like Helsingoer - Helsingborg it shouldn't be that big a problem getting on, since they depart every 30 minutes. They are relatively cheap too. A 1-way ticket will cost you about 250 danish kroner (about 35 euro).

But if you want to go that way, I'd also recommend just driving there. You can drive all the way up through germany to denmark, and all the way to sweden. You'll have two bridges to cross (Storebaelt and Oeresund bridges), and they also cost about 35 euro for a 1-way. It's a bit more driving time (but only a little) but you'll save the trouble of waiting for the ferrie etc.

As I recall the Frederikshavn - Göteborg route is VERY expensive, but I could be wrong. The only good part is that once there you're not too far from Karlstad. But on the other hand it's a 2 hour trip by ferry and you can cover a lot of road by car in two hours

[Umfriend]

Thx guys. We're going Puttgarden-Roedby, stay near kopenhagen and find cabins along the way in Sweden (good plan?). We need to get about 200km north of Karlstadt by wednesday, should be easy.