The Palm House is included on the Discover card, not Hop. The Botanical Garden around it is free to everyone, but the Palm House and Butterfly House charge separately.
The garden and the glasshouse are two different things, and only one of them needs a card. That distinction is the most useful thing on this page.
A Victorian glasshouse from 1874 at the centre of the University of Copenhagen's Botanical Garden, with a Butterfly House beside it. Allow an hour or two.
Sixteen metres of narrow cast-iron spiral, wound up the inside of the glasshouse since 1874. It is the thing everyone climbs and the thing everyone photographs, and it is narrow enough that you will want to be patient on the way up.
On the same separate ticket and therefore on the same card. It is a small, warm room with live butterflies rather than a second glasshouse, and it is the part that turns this from a stop into an hour with children.
The Botanical Garden around the glasshouse is free to everyone, every day, with no ticket and no card. That is worth knowing in both directions: you can walk the grounds without spending anything, and you should not use a card slot on something already free.
One booking that genuinely matters, one price we will not state, and a Monday rule that changes with the season. Confirmed against snm.dk.
The Botanical Garden sits between Nørreport and Rosenborg, about five minutes on foot from the station. Entry to the glasshouses is on Discover only.
All three are included on the same card, so the only cost of adding them is the time. For the full list, see every attraction the Copenhagen Card covers.
The museum the Botanical Garden belongs to, bringing the university’s zoological, geological and botanical collections under one roof.
Christian IV’s summer palace across the King’s Garden, with the crown jewels and regalia in the basement treasury.
Danish Golden Age and Skagen painting in a small purpose-built gallery beside Østre Anlæg.
The Discover card covers the glasshouse and the Butterfly House, along with 80+ more attractions and unlimited public transport across the Capital Region.
The Discover card covers the Palm House and the Butterfly House, which carry a separate fee from the rest of the site. The Botanical Garden around them is free to everyone regardless. Neither the garden nor the issuer publishes that fee, so this page states none. The Hop card covers neither.
It opens on Mondays in July and August, 10am to 5pm, and closes on Mondays for the rest of the year. Tuesday to Sunday it runs 10am to 5pm all year, with Wednesdays to 9pm. The garden outside the glasshouse is open and free whatever the day.
Booking is essential here, unlike most card venues. The issuer instructs card holders to reserve a time slot in advance and to select the "Book time slot with free entry" option. Turning up without one risks being turned away at the glasshouse door.
One scan per attraction applies, so this is a single visit per card, and the booked slot is that visit. The Botanical Garden around it is free and unlimited — you can walk the grounds as often as you like without using anything up.
Show the live QR code in the Copenhagen Card app at the entrance and let staff scan it. Your booking confirmation email is not your card, and a screenshot of the QR code will not scan — it has to be the app itself, which works offline once activated.