Copenhagen Cruise Port Rental Cars: City Desks, Kastrup and the Oceanvej Lot

Langelinie (Langeliniekaj 16, by the Little Mermaid) takes ships up to 320 m long, and Nordre Toldbod (next to Amalienborg) ships up to 200 m.

By our routing, Nordre Toldbod is 2.2 road miles from Central Station and Langelinie 2.7 — Oceankaj is 5.6.

Norwegian names Oceankaj Terminal 1 as its primary spot, with 2 or 3 as alternatives. Royal Caribbean’s directions page lists “Ocean Berths #331, 332 or 333”. Princess says Ocean Quay (Oceankaj) in Nordhavn.

MSC’s UK page says “Cruise Terminal 3 Oceankaj” and, a few lines down, that its free shuttle runs “directly to Oceankaj Terminal 1”. Same page, two numbers — treat the terminal number as a guide, not a promise.

We found no page from Regent, Silversea, Seabourn, Viking, Oceania or Holland America naming its quay; ship length decides, and the port allocates berths. A ship over 320 m long can only be at Oceankaj.

We found no rental desk in Nordhavn, at Østerport or at the Frihavn, and no brand page that mentions delivering a car to the cruise quays.

You fetch the car yourself — from the station district or from Kastrup, and the station district is the nearer by about 4 miles.

If you’re staying in town before the ship, the city trio spares you the trip back out to Kastrup — and the bus ride to its rental centre.

Avis on Kampmannsgade, Sixt at Ved Vesterport 3 and Europcar on Gammel Kongevej sit within a few streets of each other, about 15 minutes from Oceankaj by our routing on empty roads.

Copenhagen Airport puts its car hire in the Car Rental Centre at the western end of the airport, reached by free terminal buses; returns go to the Car Rental Return area directly opposite.

Discover Cars’ airport page says most desks are “located in the T3 arrivals hall”, which the airport’s own page and Europcar’s don’t support. Sixt is the exception at the airport: its branch is at Terminal 1, P1, and a free Sixt shuttle runs there from the Clarion Hotel.

Go by your voucher’s address, not a booking site’s summary.

Europcar’s own page says 7 AM to 11:30 PM at the airport, while Discover Cars prints 11 PM for the same counter — we go by the company’s own page.

Discover Cars lists Alamo, Avis, Budget, Enterprise, Flex To Go, Hertz, Keddy, Sixt, Thrifty and Europcar at CPH. Hertz’s Danish site didn’t load for us, so we have no Hertz hours or address.

Alamo’s hours come from that reseller listing too — the only card here we couldn’t check on a company’s own site.

The checker opens at 2:30 PM on a Sunday for a reason.

By then Sixt and Europcar in the city have closed, at 2 PM, and Avis on Kampmannsgade has half an hour left.

Every airport counter is still staffed — and stays that way well into the evening.

Weekdays are easy — every desk on the list is open from about 7:30 AM to 5 PM.

If you’ll reach a counter after mid-afternoon on a weekend, book Kastrup, not the station district.

The city desks do open on Saturdays and Sundays — just not for long.

Avis on Kampmannsgade runs 7:30 AM to 3 PM on both weekend days, while Sixt and Europcar open 8 to 2 — the earliest close of any desk we list.

That’s six hours at most — enough for a morning collection, not an afternoon one.

Kastrup keeps full days — Avis and Alamo close at 10 PM on Saturdays, an hour earlier than the rest of the week, and Sixt and Europcar keep the same hours seven days.

Sixt’s city office uses the weekend hours on public holidays as well, per its page.

Europcar posts special hours for holidays, so check its page for your date.

Returns are the easy half. Avis, Sixt and Europcar all take cars back around the clock, and the after-cruise page covers how each one works.

Book a weekend city pickup for the morning. For anything later, book the airport.

P-plads Oceanvej, 50 to 100 m from Ocean Quay, charges DKK 22 an hour from 7 AM to 5 PM and DKK 12 an hour overnight, capped at DKK 150 per 24 hours; it has 242 spaces.

Norwegian’s page prints the same hourly rates and lists six payment apps, ApcoaFlow and EasyPark among them. Royal Caribbean calls it “limited parking” for a daily or weekly fee. Wonderful Copenhagen adds that extra fees may apply depending on how you pay.

Parked straight through, a car hits the cap every day. At DKK 22 for ten daytime hours and DKK 12 for fourteen at night, a full day on the meter would be DKK 388, so the DKK 150 cap applies — our arithmetic.

Seven nights at the cap is DKK 1,050 (about US$160) — Wonderful Copenhagen’s rate, our multiplication.

Add the rental sitting idle: at our assumed DKK 300 (about US$45) a day, seven days is DKK 2,100 (about US$315), so a week-long car that never moves costs about DKK 3,150 (about US$475) before fuel.

Hand the car back before the cruise and rent again afterwards — unless the drives on both sides are long ones.

Near Langelinie and Nordre Toldbod, daily maximums run DKK 335 to DKK 500, and VisitCopenhagen says there’s no long-term parking at either quay. The nearest indoor lot to Nordre Toldbod, Dronningens Tværgade 4, is DKK 500 a day.

MSC’s Finnish page says “Book your parking with MSC” without a price. Our Copenhagen parking guide covers driving your own car to the ship.

Dollar figures use the European Central Bank reference rates of Oct 2, 2026 (about 15 US cents to the krone); your card’s rate will differ.

Choose the counter that will be staffed when you arrive, and only then compare prices.

Discover Cars’ Copenhagen city page said from $13 a day, averaging $47, on Oct 3, 2026, in dollars with no note on what that includes.

It lists Ved Vesterport 3, Sixt’s address, as its downtown location, so read the pick-up line on each result. Our Discover Cars review covers deposits and its coverage add-on.