|
|
|
|
Bakken Review
Read our Copenhagen sights reviews. Or post your own.
Bakken
- Address: Dyrehavevej 62, inside Dyrehaven, Klampenborg | Map It
- Directions: (take S-train to Klampenborg Station)
- Phone: 39/63-73-00
- www.bakken.dk
- Category: Amusement Parks
- Location: Klampenborg
Fodor's Review:
Klampenborg is no stranger to crowds. Just a few kilometers inland, within the peaceful Dyrehaven, is Bakken, the world's oldest amusement park -- and one of Denmark's most popular attractions. If Tivoli is champagne in a fluted glass, then Bakken is a pint of beer. Bakken's crowd is working-class Danes, and lunch is hot dogs and cotton candy. Of course Tivoli, with its trimmed hedges, dazzling firework displays, and evening concerts is still Copenhagen's reigning queen, but unpretentious Bakken makes no claims to the throne; instead, it is unabashedly about having a good time -- being silly in the bumper cars, screaming at the top of your lungs on the rides, and eating food that's bad for you. There's something comfortable and nostalgic about Bakken's vaguely dilapidated state. Bakken has more than 100 rides, from quaint, rickety roller coasters (refreshingly free of that Disney gloss) to newer, faster rides to little-kid favorites such as Kaffekoppen, the Danish version of twirling teacups, where you sit in traditional Royal Copenhagen-style blue-and-white coffee cups. Bakken opens the last weekend in March, with a festive ride by motorcyclists across Copenhagen to Bakken. It closes in late August, because this is when the Dyrehaven park animals begin to mate, and during their raging hormonal stage the animals can be dangerous around children.
- Cost: Free, DKr 239 for a day pass to all rides in peak season (June 27-Aug. 7)
- Open: Late Mar.-late Aug., daily 2 PM-midnight
Get Advice From Other Travelers
- Copenhagen, Prague and ?
11 responses; most recent on 09/09/2008, 11:47 am - COPENHAGEN-a terrific VIST
9 responses; most recent on 08/30/2008, 05:07 pm - Weather in Stockholm and Copenhagen in Late June/July
4 responses; most recent on 08/18/2008, 08:45 pm - Hotel in Copenhagen
2 responses; most recent on 08/11/2008, 07:49 pm
Visit the Travel Talk forums for help on planning your trip >>
Buy the Guidebook
-
$23
-
$18.95
Get the Fodor's Newsletter
Read the current issue
For more travel ideas, tips, and deals, sign up for the Fodor's newsletter here. Browse previous issues.
