Best way to get from Aarhus to Hirtshals
Replies: 3 - Last Post: Aug 8, 2012 10:17 AM Last Post By: Bjoern
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Best way to get from Aarhus to Hirtshals
Hey, I'm looking at the tickets for the train ride from Aarhus to Hirtshals and they're expensive, moreso than the ride to get to Aarhus from Copenhagen. So I'm curious if there are any alternative options to getting there, I have a set schedule to keep on the day of travel so I need timetables and more towards assurances than something like a rideshare that would get me there at some point during the day. For instance, I need to be at the ferry docks by 1130am, the ferry leaves at 1300. Has anyone taken a ferry out of Hirtshals for Norway (Bergen)? I'm not really sure where the dock for that particular route is so thats the reasoning behind 1130am.Thanks for any help or advice you have.
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www.rejseplanen.dk gives you: departure 7:48 on ICL 11 to Aalborg, bus 7009 to Hjørring and train 80 to Hirtshals "main" station (not the one in the harbour) - walk to docks. Hirtshals is TINY so finding the ferry is no problem.The price I find is DKK 235 + 30 for a seat reservation on first train if you want. Not a bad price at all - remember distance, you are buying tickets from 3 different companies - and the route has little traffic/few passengers -not at all like Copenhagen - Aarhus.
Basically there are no "alternative" (bus) routes runing parallel to trains - waste of ressources. You would be able to make your way with many local busses - it would take for ever and probably cost more.
1½ hour before is PLENTY - (actually will be 2:15 with the route above)
You are aware that you will be on that ferry for 20 hours!!!!!!!
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Yeah that option is the best one I could find as well, so I took it, thanks!Yeah, the 20 hour ferry should be entertaining in some small way, I haven't been on the open ocean in years. I imagine 20 hours plus sleeping time won't be as bad as a bus ride can be, you know, a 20 hr bus ride is a nightmare. I'd be surprised if this ferry ride turned into a nightmare.
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I'd be surprised if this ferry ride turned into a nightmare.Well depends on how late into the autums you get - from late Septenber heavy winbds/a storm is a risk and the North Sea is tehn a very unpleasant place.
Else you are only stuck with nothing to do, costly food, and a place where everybody tries to get as much money from you as possible. (But that's just negative me - if I had to travel from Jylland to Norway I would anytime fly or take a short ferry to Göteborg or Norway and then train.
