The main reason almost any tourist goes to Helsingør is to visit the Kronborg Castle, or otherwise known as the "Hamlet Castle".
Highly recommend to walk the exterior of the castle either before or after visiting the castle.
The entrance fee into the castle costs DKK 125 per person (about Euro 18).
There are 3 routes to take - one which leads to an exhibition containing some art works and traditional outfits of those times, another path leads you to the different rooms and hallways with explanation about the usage of the various spaces during the King's stay.
The last is the casemates, which are located below the castle and is made up of 2 different storeys - the upper are used as guardrooms, the smithery and stables, and the lower storey was to provide a safe shelter during times of war. The lower casemates were also equipped with barracks and food storage facilities.
I took about 2.5hrs to cover both the internal and the external area.
Make sure to also walk towards the Barracks sign, as you will find this.
I then made my way to the town centre for lunch.
It's a really small compact town, and was extremely easy to move around.
As expected, restaurants only had Danish menus displayed.
I walked into a restaurant and asked if they had an English menu. The staff said they had, but he wasn't able to find it. So I asked for his help to translate the items, which had just about 6 or 7 different items. The 1st item on the list was Grilled Fish, which I was quite happy to go with, and there were another 2 other fish items on the menu, one of which was supposed to come with a sauce (the name of the sauce he wasn't able to translate into English), and another fish item that came with prawns.
Not wanting to fuss about, I asked for the Grilled Fish and the staff next asked me what I would like to drink. Not wanting to trouble the staff with translations, I just asked for water, in which the staff said "Tap water", which was fine.
I was then served this.
It was good, though I wasn't sure if maybe they had given me the more pricey fish item since it came with prawns, and I also wasn't sure if maybe in Danish the word for grilled and fried is similar. I made a mental note to look at the bill when it came.
After I was done with my meal and asked for the bill, I was told the total was DKK139.
I asked "Isn't the fish DKK 119?", staff replied "DKK 20 is for water. We have to charge otherwise everyone will ask for water".
DKK 20 is about S$4.20 or €3. What the hell, four freaking dollars for tap water? Will the water make me younger?
Side note, I later read in a review of a Copenhagen restaurant that I was planning to go to for dinner, that a few people had commented they got charged DKK50 (S$10.50) for tap water. Ridiculous!
Of course that also made me change my mind of heading there for dinner.
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