The Ultimate Scandinavia Journey: Fjords, Stockholm and Copenhagen

Arrive into Oslo and transfer privately to The Thief on Tjuvholmen, a small island in the harbour that was historically associated with the city’s criminal quarter and is now home to the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art. The hotel sits at the water’s edge with views across the Oslofjord.

Your private guide covers the city over the first day. Vigeland Sculpture Park in Frogner covers 80 acres and holds more than 200 works in granite, bronze and cast iron, all created by Gustav Vigeland as a single commission between 1924 and 1943.

It is one of the largest sculpture installations produced by a single artist anywhere in the world and is open at all times without an admission charge. The new National Museum on Aker Brygge, which opened in 2022, holds the largest collection of art, architecture and design in the Nordic countries, including Edvard Munch’s The Scream.

The Opera House on the Oslofjord waterfront was designed with a roof that slopes to the water so that you can walk across it.

Oslo has developed one of the strongest restaurant cultures in Scandinavia over the past two decades, with a generation of chefs building menus around Norwegian produce and coastal seafood. Do Not Disturb can recommend and reserve based on your preferences for the evening.

A short flight from Bergen brings you into Stockholm. The city sits across 14 islands where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea. Your base for three nights is Ett Hem in the Lärkstaden district, a 1910 townhouse converted into a 12-room hotel by designer Ilse Crawford in 2012. The name means “the home” in Swedish, and the property runs on that principle, with a library, a garden and a kitchen where residents eat together.

Your private guide covers the city on the first full day, starting in Gamla Stan, the old town that has been the centre of Stockholm since the 13th century, before continuing to Skeppsholmen, the island that is now home to the Museum of Modern Art, and finishing at Svenskt Tenn on Strandvägen, the design institution that has been a reference point for Swedish interiors since 1924.

The Vasa Museum on Djurgården houses the warship Vasa, a Swedish Navy vessel that sank on its first voyage in 1628 and was raised from the harbour floor in 1961. The museum is built around the ship, which is 69 meters long and stands five stories tall inside the building.

On the third day, a private boat takes you into the Stockholm Archipelago, which stretches 60 miles into the Baltic across around 30,000 islands. Your skipper plots a course through the quieter channels, stopping on Fjäderholmarna for lunch before the return to the harbour.

From Kokkedal, a private transfer brings you into Copenhagen and the Hotel d’Angleterre on Kongens Nytorv, at the top of the Nyhavn canal. The hotel has been on this site since 1755 and underwent a full restoration in 2013.

Your private guide covers the city on the first full day, starting in Nørrebro, where the city’s independent restaurants, coffee shops and design studios are concentrated. Jægersborggade is the street to know, with some of the most visited cafés and food producers in the city alongside a Michelin-starred restaurant. Do Not Disturb will request a reservation in advance, though availability cannot always be guaranteed.

Tivoli Gardens, operating in the centre of the city since 1843 and one of the inspirations Walt Disney cited when designing Disneyland, is worth an evening. The Designmuseum Danmark on Bredgade covers three centuries of Danish and international design in a building that was originally an 18th-century hospital.

On the final day, Do Not Disturb arranges a private Nordic Noir walking tour covering locations from The Bridge and The Killing, including the Politigården police headquarters, the City Court and the harbour front. The tour takes around two hours on foot.

The following morning, a private transfer takes you to Copenhagen Airport. Do Not Disturb handles the full routing home.