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Staying in Djurgården
Djurgården holds the Vasa Museum, Skansen, Gröna Lund, the ABBA museum and Nordiska museet, which is why it is on every itinerary and why people try to stay on it. It is a protected royal park, cars are banned in summer, and it is the most pleasant square kilometre in Stockholm to spend a day in.
As a base it does not work, for a reason that has nothing to do with the island being unpleasant. There are three hotels on it. There is no metro station, no supermarket, no ordinary street of shops and no bar district: you get tram 7 from Nybroplan, bus 67, and the ferry from Slussen. All of them thin out in the evening, and when the museums shut at 17:00 or 18:00 the island empties and your dinner options are the museum restaurants, at museum prices.
There is one case for it: high summer with children, when Gröna Lund and Skansen are the trip and you want to walk home rather than queue for the ferry with everybody else. Even then, Östermalm is ten minutes away on tram 7 and has shops, restaurants and a metro line.
What works
- The Vasa Museum, Skansen, Gröna Lund and ABBA the Museum are all walkable
- A protected national park to run or cycle in, with no cars in summer
- Genuinely silent at night once the museums and the funfair close
- Tram 7 and the Slussen ferry are both scenic rides rather than commutes
What does not
- Three hotels on the whole island, so no choice and no late availability
- No metro station, no supermarket and no shops - tram, bus or ferry for everything
- Museum restaurants are the evening options, and they are priced accordingly
- Dead after 18:00 when the museums close and the day visitors leave
- Twenty-eight minutes on foot to Gamla stan, and the ferry is a detour after dark
There are plenty of good spots for picnics, and alcohol can be consumed at most places. Otherwise, dining in Djurgården can be overpriced. [...] Despite all the visitors, Djurgården has only three hotels.