Final-year school trip to Hamburg and Copenhagen: Hamburg harbour, the Elbphilharmonie, Nyhavn and Kronborg Castle (7 days)

Day 1: Departure from your school and arrival in Hamburg

• Departure from your school early in the morning, at the time agreed with you.
• Daytime drive via Dortmund and Bremen (about 500 to 650 km depending on your school, 6 to 7.5 hours excluding stops).
• Our drivers drive for a maximum of 3 hours, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.
• Arrival in Hamburg in the late afternoon, check-in at the accommodation for two nights.
• Dinner, then supervised walk to the Landungsbrücken and through the Old Elbe Tunnel.

Day 2: Hamburg, port city

• Harbour tour by boat, among the container ships, docks and shipyards.
• The Speicherstadt, a red-brick warehouse district listed as a World Heritage Site, and HafenCity.
• Lunch at your own expense, then up to the Plaza of the Elbphilharmonie, 37 metres above the harbour.
• Visit to Miniatur Wunderland, the world’s largest model railway (on request), then the City Hall and the Alster lake.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 3: Ferry crossing and arrival in Copenhagen

• Rooms vacated after breakfast and drive to Puttgarden, on the island of Fehmarn (about 150 km, 2 hours).
• Ferry crossing of the Fehmarn Belt to Rødby (about 45 min), then drive to Copenhagen (about 160 km, 2 hours).
• Arrival in the early afternoon, check-in at the accommodation for three nights and first walk from Strøget to Nyhavn harbour.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 4: Copenhagen, from the canals to the Little Mermaid

• Canal cruise from Nyhavn, with views of the Opera House and Christianshavn.
• Walk to the Little Mermaid via the Kastellet citadel, then changing of the guard at noon at Amalienborg Palace.
• Lunch at your own expense, then trip up the tower of Christiansborg Palace (free admission) and a walk through Christianshavn.
• Dinner, then supervised evening at the Tivoli Gardens (on request).

Day 5: Helsingør and Hamlet’s castle

• Drive north along the Øresund coast, with a stop at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk (on request).
• Visit to Kronborg Castle in Helsingør, the Renaissance fortress that Shakespeare chose as the setting for ‘Hamlet’ (on request).
• Lunch at your own expense and supervised free time in Helsingør’s old town, facing the Swedish coast.
• Return to Copenhagen (about 50 min), dinner and last supervised evening in Denmark.

Day 6: Morning in Copenhagen and drive back to Hamburg

• Rooms vacated after breakfast.
• Climb up the Round Tower, a 17th-century observatory with its spiral ramp (on request), then lunch at your own expense.
• Departure around 1 pm, Rødby–Puttgarden ferry crossing and drive to the Hamburg area (about 4.5 hours including the crossing).
• Check-in at the hotel for the overnight stop, dinner and supervised evening.

Day 7: Return to Belgium

• Departure after breakfast.
• Daytime drive back to Belgium with regular stops.
• Lunch at your own expense during a stop on the way.
• Arrival at your school in the late afternoon or evening.