Copenhagen Cable Park: Two Cables, and a Month Pass You Must Join a Club to Buy

The prices, in full

Sessions are sold by the hour, and whether gear is included doubles the price. This is the operator’s own grid:

An adult hour is 175 DKK, about 23 €, and 350 DKK with a board, vest, helmet and wetsuit, about 47. If you are bringing nothing, the second number is the real one. Two named sessions sit outside that grid: a Basic Course at 550 DKK (74 €) for the full beginner introduction, a Surf Foil Course at 750 DKK, and a Small Cable Session at 350 DKK.

Two cables, and which one you want

This is what separates Copenhagen from the other European parks we have looked at. Most run one system. Copenhagen runs two, and the operator is unusually clear about who each is for.

If you have never been towed by anything, the Small Cable is the one. An instant stop is worth more to a beginner than any amount of instruction: the cable lets go the moment you do, instead of dragging you the length of a lake. The two-tower layout is the same shape as Cachin’s near Annecy and Männiku’s outside Tallinn, but those two have no full-size loop to move up to. Männiku answers that with three 2.0 lanes of rising difficulty; Cachin has nowhere to go at all. Here you cross to the Big Cable and stay.

The club that owns the passes

Here is the part no listing mentions and it changes the arithmetic. Every pass and clip card — month, season, weekday, all of them — is sold only to members of Copenhagen Cable Club. Membership is 300 DKK, about 40 €.

So a month is 2,550 DKK, about 341 €, not the 301 the pass alone suggests. That is still slightly less than Vienna’s 355 €, which is worth pausing on: a month of riding costs less in one of Europe’s most expensive cities than it does in Vienna.

The club is not a billing device. Copenhagen Cable Club describes itself as the volunteer association of the park, run by and for its members, putting on training sessions, camps and competitions. Its own page says members are the people cleaning the sauna, repairing the mini skate ramp and moving features around the course. If you buy a month here you are joining something, which is either the appeal or the drawback depending on how long you are staying.

Booking, and what it costs to change your mind

Book in advance. The park states plainly that sessions often sell out and that booking is required in many cases. It also publishes a cancellation ladder, which almost nobody in this sport does:

The members' column is the second reason to join if you are staying: 2 hours' notice against 7 days is a large difference when you are deciding by the weather. Arrive 15 to 20 minutes early, bring swimwear and a towel, and expect to ride in most conditions — the park says it only cancels in weather severe enough to be unsafe.

Where it is

The park is at Kraftværksvej 24, 2300 København S, on Amager next to the Amagerværket power station, which is what the hero photograph above shows. It is about 3.5 km from Rådhuspladsen and 2.4 from Kongens Nytorv — the closest to a capital’s centre of any park in this site’s research, closer than Vienna’s five.

Opening hours change through the season and the operator tells you to check the booking system for live access. For June it published: Monday 13:30–20:30, Tuesday 11:30–20:30, Wednesday and Thursday 13:30–20:30, Friday 11:30–18:30, and weekends 9:30–18:30. Weekend mornings are the early start; Friday evening is the early finish.

There is a café on site with published prices — a burger is 110 kr, a panini 75, a beer 35 or 45, and coffee runs from 25 to 40 kr — which is the sort of detail that decides whether an afternoon here is an afternoon or a whole logistics problem.

Groups, schools and taking the park

Group prices are published per person and include board, wetsuit, helmet, vest and instruction:

• Schools and institutions, from 250 DKK a head. Minimum ten people: 250 for an hour, 350 for two. Thirty or more get three hours split in two for 300 each; forty or more get four hours for the same 300. They ride before opening hours on weekdays, with the park to themselves.
• Companies and private groups, from 375 DKK a head. One to twelve people pay 375 for an hour or 500 for two; from 24 people it is 450 for three hours, from 35 it is 425 for four. These run during normal hours, sharing the park.
• Teambuilding, from 395 DKK a head, which adds a meeting area with a whiteboard and tables, and can be scheduled outside normal hours.
• The whole park privately, from 10,000 DKK — about 1338 €.

The operator calls these indicative and says they move with season and numbers, which is a more honest way to publish a group rate than most.