Walking Tours
In summer (May/June to September), there are various specialist walking tours; information is available from Wonderful Copenhagen (the tourist office). For example, it is possible to step back in time and walk the streets with The Night Watchmen of Copenhagen (tel: 3964 4894; website: www.nattevaegterne.dk) on one of their rounds or join a tour to various jazz venues with Copenhagen Jazz Guides (tel: 2627 2749; website: www.jazzguides.dk). Historytours.dk (tel: 2849 4435; website: www.historytours.dk) organises a variety of walking tours that explore Copenhagen's history via the expert guidance of historian Christian Holm Donatzky and Cph:cool (tel: 2695 5474; website: www.cphcool.dk) offers a different perspective with their urban tours of quirky districts and bohemian sights. Throughout the year Copenhagen Walking Tours (tel: 4081 1217; website: www.copenhagen-walkingtours.dk) offers two-hour English-language tours. They cover a range of interests, such as ‘Highlights of the Old City', ‘Rosenborg Castle', ‘Historic Copenhagen' or ‘Romantic Copenhagen'. These tours must be pre-booked. Afternoon tours of Christiania, the ‘Free City of Copenhagen' (tel: 3257 9670; website: www.christiania.org), depart from the main gate. The tours are guided by a resident of the commune and take approximately 90 minutes. It is possible to pre-order more comprehensive tours for groups.

Bus Tours
Paaske Bus (tel: 3266 0000; website: www.sightseeing.dk) organises a number of bus tours around the city, lasting from one to two and a half hours. The company also operates the Open Top Tours, one-hour, hop-on, hop-off multilingual tours of all the main sights in the centre of Copenhagen.

Boat Tours
Boat tours through the harbour and canal networks around Christianshavn and Slotsholmen explain the importance of water in the life and history of the city.

DFDS Canal Tours (tel: 3296 3000; website: www.canaltours.com) operates multilingual guided tours of the harbour and the canal; boats depart every half hour daily April to October and every one to two hours November to March from Nyhavn or Gammel Strand. Tours last about 50 minutes. They also operate hop-on hop-off Waterbus tours without guides. There are two routes, which both depart from Nyhavn. The same company offers a two-hour ‘Dinner Cruise' taken on board an elegant restaurant boat, offering a two-course menu while cruising through historic maritime Copenhagen.

Netto Boats (tel: 3254 4102; website: www.netto-baadene.dk) offers a one-hour guided tour of the harbour and canals. Boats depart frequently April to October from outside Holmens Church, opposite the Old Stock Exchange, and from Nyhavn.

Bicycle Tours
City Safari (tel: 3323 9490; website: www.citysafari.dk) offers a number of themed bicycle tours, including ‘The Historic Copenhagen', ‘Round Carlsberg', ‘In the Footsteps of Hans Christian Andersen' or ‘The Big Architecture Ride'. These tours last for four and a half hours. They are in Danish and English and start from the Danish Centre for Architecture in the Gammel Dok Storehouse on Christianshavn (credit cards not accepted).

Other Tours
Copenhagen Adventure Tours  (tel: 4050 4006; website: www.kajakole.dk) offers guided tours of Copenhagen's waterways in kayaks with professional instructors, which depart from the canal behind the opera building on Holmen and last from 90 minutes to three hours.