Car Hire: Take advantage of the special easyJet inflight rates. Visit the Europcar desk on arrival or call +45 3250 3090. Open from 7am-11pm seven days a week.

Airport Transfer: Pre-book your door-to-door transfer with easyJet’s transfer partner, Holiday Taxis—from home to the airport, then city or resort (easyjet.holidaytaxis.com).

Train: Trains leave for København H from Terminal 3 (Arrivals) every 10 minutes and it takes 14 minutes. Tickets: DKK30. The new metro line leaves for Nørreport station every five minutes and take 15 minutes. Tickets: DKK30.

Taxi: Expect to pay DKK120-DKK160 for the 25-minute journey.

Bus: Number 5A leaves Terminal 3 every 8-12 minutes and stops at Town Square. It's a 35-minute journey. Tickets: DKK30.

The Laundromat Café
( 15 Elmegade, Nørrebro. Tel. 3535 2672 )
This café doubles up as, well, you've guessed it, a laundromat! The perfect place to make the most of your time—have a bite to eat while your socks take a spin.

Pussy Galore's Flying Circus
( 30 Sankt Hans Torv, Nørrebro. Tel. 3524 5300 )
From delicious, fresh salads to juicy burgers, this place is the city’s funkiest place to eat, drink and be merry.

Den Sorte Ravn
( 14 Nyhavn. Tel. 3313 1233 )
At 'The Black Raven' you'll find a modern Danish-French kitchen with fish dishes the speciality—appropriate on the quay of Nyhavn.

Geranium
( 13 Kronprinsessegade. Tel. 3311 1304 )
All the products used in this Michelin-starred restaurant are biodynamic or organic—even the wines. A seriously tempting choice of dishes, including lemon sole and king crab grace the menu. For vegetarians, the seven-course Grass is Always Greener tasting menu is not to be missed.

K Bar
( 20 Ved Stranden. Tel. 3391 9222 )
Quaint cocktail bar where staff like to experiment, making their own vodkas and drinks with lots of fruit and hot spices.

Blågårds Apotek Café
( 20 Blågårdsgade, Nørrebro. Tel. 3537 2442 )
From Thursday to Saturday, Danish and international musicians take to the stage at this old bar, a former apothecary—hence the name.

Jolene Bar
( 81-85 Flæsketorvet. )
Trendy nightclub and bar in the hip Meatpacking District.

Frk. Lilla (Miss Lilac) is a luxury second-hand shop that sells clothes as well as accessories. Here you’ll find Chanel bags, Manolo Blahnik shoes and Sonia Rykiel sweaters at half price (41 Frederiksborggade.)

For a hygge—a near-untranslatable Danish word that partly means English cosiness—experience, contact Dine with the Danes for a home-cooked dinner with a local family (Tel. 2685 3961. www.dinewiththedanes.dk).

The area around Elmegade, near the Jewish Cemetery, has a Parisian feel to it. It’s full of small, trendy designer boutiques, quirky little antiques shops, laid-back cafés and cool cocktail bars.

The annual Crazy Christmas Cabaret (in English) premières at the Glass Theatre in Tivoli Gardens. This year, Hamlet's Private Dick is a Sherlock Holmes adventure, where the famous detective is hired to solve the mystery of Hamlet’s father’s death (6 November 2008-10 January 2009. www.londontoast.dk).

Roskilde – Just a 20-minute journey from Copenhagen is Roskilde—Denmark’s first capital city, dating back to medieval times. The cathedral, where many kings and queens are buried, is well worth a visit. Check out the clock showing the famous scene of St George slaying a dragon—every hour he makes the dragon cry.

Everybody knows Hamlet was a Danish prince. But in the old legend—recorded in the 13th century by historian Saxo Grammaticus and used as inspiration for Shakespeare's famous play—the prince was called Amled.

Compiled by Anne-Louise Skade