What’s New
Bridge Travel Service has launched its first Scandinavia brochure, covering Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland and Norway, plus the Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia. Product ranges from bungee jumping in Gothenburg to whale watching off the coast of Norway. A self-drive holiday in Denmark leads in at £197 per person for a four-night stay. The price, based on two people sharing, includes three-star accommodation and includes a ferry crossing with Scandinavian Seaways.
Marriott is building a 395-room five-star hotel in Copenhagen. The property will be the group’s first in Scandinavia, and will cost £50m to build. It is scheduled to open in June 2001. The hotel will have a conference and banqueting hall as well as 12 meeting rooms, and will help to ease the shortage of rooms for the meetings market. The first Hilton in Scandinavia, a 375-room property, opens at Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport in 2000.
Scandinavian Seaways has launched a post-New Year cruise break to Esbjerg in Denmark. The three-night break departs Harwich on January 1, arriving in Denmark on January 2. Clients sleep on board and have a tour to Ribe, Denmark’s oldest town, on January 3, before the ship departs for Harwich at 6pm, arriving noon the next day. The cost is £199 per person including four-berth inside cabin and most meals.
An express train between Arlanda Airport and Stockholm starts service at the end of August. The Arlanda Express will depart from stations beneath the airport terminals every 15mins. The trains will take passengers into the city in 20mins, about half the time taken by the airport bus, and cost about £10 one-way.
Horsens, on the east coast of Jutland, is hosting its fifth Medieval Festival from August 27-28, coinciding with Denmark’s Middle Ages ’99 celebrations. The streets will be packed with stalls, musicians and theatrical performances, while knights will joust with swords and lances in Town Hall Square. After dark, the town will be lit only with torches, bonfires and candles.