Sankt Helene Complex

Zealand


One kilometre east of town, this sprawling 12-hectare complex is a veritable holiday village. Although focused on a 1925 thatched farm-reception building, the feel is a little institutional, but standards are fine and it's possibly worth considering for groups of four people sharing light-suffused low-rise 'apartments' that feel like high-quality, en-suite student bedrooms with kitchen.

Cheaper triangular huts (550-650kr) are far poorer value with minimal privacy and an outdoor walk to the bathroom block. Small apartments without kitchen are co-branded as Danhostel rooms (dorms in midsummer only, 200kr). Sheets/towels cost 60/15kr.

By train, get off at Godhavn station, one stop before Tisvildeleje, then walk one block north and west.


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