Copenhagen Zoo is included on both cards. Adult entry is €35 (260 DKK) without one, and the zoo opens every day of the year.
Both cards cover the whole zoo. This is the one attraction where a single visit can justify a large part of what the card cost.
Founded in 1859 and one of the oldest zoos in Europe. It is compact enough to walk in a morning and rewarding enough to fill a day.
The polar bear enclosure, built so the pool runs over a glass tunnel — the bears swim above your head rather than behind a fence. Go early: the bears are most active in the first hours after opening and spend the warm afternoons asleep.
Norman Foster's two glass domes, sunk into the ground so the elephants stand at eye level from inside and are visible from Frederiksberg Gardens outside. One of the few zoo buildings anywhere that is worth seeing as architecture.
Where the visit turns from looking to touching — a walk-through paddock of goats, rabbits and Danish farm animals with staff on hand. It is the part small children remember, and the reason to leave time at the end rather than rushing it.
Two things make the zoo unusual among card attractions: it never closes, and children pay. Prices confirmed against zoo.dk.
Entry is on both cards. The journey is not — and that is the difference between them here.
It covers Copenhagen Zoo along with 80+ other attractions and all public transport.
Only going here? The card pays for itself across several attractions, not one. If Copenhagen Zoo is the only thing on your list, a single ticket is the cheaper buy.
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.
A drained Victorian reservoir under Frederiksberg Gardens, dripping and pitch dark, used for one large installation at a time. Unlike anywhere else in the city.
Devoted to Robert Storm Petersen, the cartoonist whose drawings most Danes grew up with, and to humour and satire more broadly. Small, funny and easy to fit in.
The old Carlsberg brewery in the district it built, reopened as a museum of the company, the family and Danish brewing. Includes a drink at the end.
Adult entry is €35 and a family of four pays €113 at the gate. It is the biggest single saving either card makes — and it is on both of them, along with 80+ more attractions and unlimited public transport.
Full entry is included on both the Discover and Hop cards, covering every enclosure — the Arctic Ring, the Elephant House and the Children's Zoo among them. Adult admission without a card is €35 (260 DKK), the highest of any single attraction the card covers.
The zoo opens every day of the year, Mondays included — unusual among Copenhagen Card venues, most of which close that day. That makes it the safest thing to plan for a Monday. Closing time is much earlier in winter, so check zoo.dk for the day you are going.
Nothing needs booking ahead. Walk to the gate, show the QR code in the Copenhagen Card app and go in — there is no timed entry and no pre-registration. Queues build after about 11am in the school holidays, so an early start is worth the effort.
One scan per attraction applies here as everywhere, so the zoo is a single visit per card. It is a full day out for most families, so that rarely bites — but you cannot leave for lunch in Frederiksberg and scan back in afterwards.
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.