Christiansborg Palace tickets: DKK 215 for the rooms, ruins and stables, and a free tower with a view

💡 The Short Version: The Palace Ticket is DKK 215 online (DKK 225 at the door) and covers the Royal Reception Rooms, the Ruins, the Kitchen and the Stables. The Reception Rooms alone are DKK 140. The sites close without notice for state events. The Stables are open only 13:30 to 16:00. The Christiansborg Tower is free, a lift to a platform 44 metres up, Tuesday to Sunday and closed on Mondays. The Royal Palace Pass (DKK 245 online) also covers Rosenborg and the Amalienborg Museum. Buy at the Royal Danish Collection. Or book a tour: the Christiansborg entry ticketad is DKK 225 on GetYourGuide and cancels free up to 24 hours ahead.

Tickets and prices

Prices are the adult rate from the Royal Danish Collection, which runs the palace’s visitor sites. Searches for Christiansborg tickets also return sites with the palace’s name in their web addresses that are not the operator.

• The Palace Ticket is the combination ticket. The Royal Danish Collection’s own GetYourGuide listing says it covers the Reception Rooms and the Great Hall, the Kitchen, the Stables, the Ruins and the Palace Chapel. Bought one by one at the door, the four paid sites come to DKK 405.
• Online, two sites cost the same as the Palace Ticket. The Reception Rooms plus one other site is DKK 215 online, so buy the Palace Ticket from the third.
• Under 18s are free. Students need a valid ID.
• The pass covers Rosenborg, the Amalienborg Museum and Christiansborg Palace for three days, DKK 245 online. The three tickets bought separately, with only the Reception Rooms at Christiansborg, come to DKK 405. Rosenborg and the Amalienborg Museum have their own pages.
• Copenhagen Card: the Reception Rooms, the Ruins, the Stables and the Kitchen are four separate entries on the card.
• A private guided tour is from DKK 995, plus admission, and the Reception Rooms and the Great Hall have an audio guide.

Where to buy

GetYourGuide’s price is its lowest “from” price, and the listing names the Royal Danish Collection as the provider.

Tours worth paying for

The palace sells an audio guide and private tours, and the one GetYourGuide listing is the entry ticket. The price is the lowest “from” price, per person.

Christiansborg entry ticket

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Copenhagen: Christiansborg Palace Entry Ticketad is the Royal Danish Collection’s own listing. It is the door price, DKK 10 over the online price at the operator. The listing warns that the Stables open only 13:30 to 16:00, with last entry at 15:30, and that the palace’s last entry is 16:30, so a late visitor cannot see everything. Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

What to see

Christiansborg is the third palace on the site. The first, opened in 1740, burned in 1794. The second was inaugurated in 1828 and burned to the ground in 1884. The present palace was inaugurated in 1928, and it houses the Danish Parliament and the Prime Minister’s Office as well as the rooms the monarch uses to hold audiences and receive heads of state.

Christiansborg’s front and tower across the palace square. Photo: Colin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. The Royal Reception Rooms. The Great Hall is the largest room. It holds Bjørn Nørgaard’s tapestries, which show a thousand years of Danish history, starting with the Viking Age tapestry about the change from the old gods to Christianity. They were made for Queen Margrethe II, who appears with Prince Henrik and their two dachshunds on the tapestry for the present day. The Throne Room is where King Frederik X was proclaimed from the balcony in 2024.
2. The Ruins. Under the palace are the ruins of Bishop Absalon’s castle, built on the island of Slotsholmen in 1167 and taken by the Hanseatic cities in 1369. The ruins are 800 years old.
3. The Royal Kitchen. A separate site, open the same hours as the Reception Rooms and the Ruins.
4. The Royal Stables. The stable wings survived the 1794 fire. They are open only in the afternoon.

The vaulted hall of the Royal Stables, with marble columns between the stalls. Photo: Orf3us, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0. 5. The Palace Chapel. The royal family’s main church survived the 1884 fire. It is open on Sundays 10:00 to 17:00 and free to enter. 6. The tower. Christiansborg Tower is run by the Danish Parliament, not the Royal Danish Collection, and costs nothing. It is entered through the King’s Gate, from the palace square or the inner courtyard, and there are no stairs, only the lift. The tower is 106 metres, which the Parliament calls the highest in Copenhagen, and the viewing platform is 44 metres up. A restaurant in the tower is booked separately.

The view from the tower over the old town’s roofs to the Marble Church dome and the Øresund. Photo: kallerna, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The order that works: the Reception Rooms in the morning, the Ruins and the Kitchen at midday and the Stables after 13:30. The tower is open to 21:00 from Tuesday to Saturday. What to skip: the Stables if you reach the palace after 15:30.

Hours, rules and getting there

• The Palace Chapel is open on Sundays 10:00 to 17:00.
• Closures: the sites can close without notice for official state and royal events. Check the week’s hours on the Royal Danish Collection’s front page the day before.
• Bags: the cloakroom has room only for small bags and umbrellas. Large bags, suitcases, prams, pushchairs and umbrellas are not allowed inside. Prams can stay in the Queen’s Gate, at your own risk, and carry cots are not allowed.
• Food and drink are not allowed inside the visitor sites. Eat a packed lunch at the tables in the Royal Library Garden or on the benches at the Riding Ground, and buy water at the palace shop by the Reception Rooms.
• Photographs: for personal use with handheld equipment, no flash and no tripod.
• Access: every visitor site can be reached with a walker or a wheelchair, and the ticket desk staff at each site arrange the lift. You can borrow a wheelchair at the Reception Rooms.
• Getting there: the address is Prins Jørgens Gård 5, and the nearest metro station is Gammel Strand. Parking is very limited, and the BLOX underground car park is a 10-minute walk away.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: a late start. The Stables close at 16:00 and the palace’s last entry is at 16:30.

What to book in Copenhagen has the closed days for every sight, and Copenhagen Card: is it worth it? runs the sums against the pass. The best views in Copenhagen compares the free tower with the paid ones. Copenhagen’s museums are mostly shut on Mondays too. The changing of the guard is at noon at Amalienborg. Free things to do in Copenhagen lists the tower with the rest. 3 days in Copenhagen fits the palaces into the open days. For a bed nearby, see where to stay in Copenhagen, and Copenhagen public transport has the fares. The old town walk has Christiansborg as a detour from Gammeltorv.