Copehagen to Oslo Ferry
 

Has anyone ever taken the overnight ferry from Copenhagen to Oslo? Is it possible to book online directly?

I am looking for any feedback you might have.

Thanks!

These are large cruise ships and are certainly the most comfortable way of making this journey. For bookings, try www.dfdsseaways.com

We took this ferry about 7 years ago - and it was the most miserable experience of my life. Not the ferry - which was fine - one of those 10 story Scandinavian "ferries" that looks like the QE2. But the water conditions.

We did not realize that the skaggerack(sp?) seems to be the roughest water in the world at certain times of year. (Even though the ship was so large it was impossible to walk without holding the wall with both hands. And you should have seen the dining room empty out as soon as we hit open water!)

Just be sure you have plenty of dramimine on hand.

Skagerrak is not the seawise worst problem. Kattegat is. Because of it's very low depth, turbulence often comes, espescially in late autumn and thrughout the winter. Spring and summer, however, yields no problems at all!!
Kattegat is the name of the sea laying between Jutland's northern point Skagen and Goethenborg and southwards. Skagerrak is north of this point and westwards along the Norwegian coastline until it meets the North Sea at about the Amsterdam-Kristiansand line.
Kattegat goes all the way along Denmark down to Germany (Kiel). South of Oresund (now serviced by the Copenhagen - Sweden brigde), the East Sea takes over and covers all the more eastern waters.
The East Sea is not very deep, either. But it is very very big in comparision to Kattegat. Hence the tide water streams between Denmark and Sweden (you're right: namely Kattegat) is heavy.
Normally this makes no harm, but considering the ground Kattegat, if yo put some autumn and winter storms to it, it really may be uncomfortable, no matter wether the "cruise" ships have stabilitatators installed or not.
Anyway, I wish you all a happy journey!
Bjorn, Oslo

Hello!
We took this ferry about 2 years ago and had a great expirence. We went at the very end of October and the water was fine, no problems at all. Far from rough thats for sure!

We booked once directly at the office and we booked another time through dfdsseaways.com and had no problems with that.

There was plenty to do to keep us occupied on the trip including movies that were currently in the theatres.

Anyways, I would reccomed it, but perhaps we got lucky and the waters weren't rough either time we took it...

We took the ferry in July and had no problem and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.