The Stockholm Day card gives the bearer entrance to over 75 attractions and free metro rides, which is great but its bloody expensive (up to 540 SEK for 72 hours), I normally shy away from spending money on a pass and instead opt for the flexibility of just going with the flow, but the cost of Stockholm is such that we could easily surpass the cost of that card, and so we accept that we will at least buy the card for 24 hours (290 SEK). Our goal thus became to gain the biggest value for our money, with our cards bought yesterday, a map, and a opening schedule (as a holiday weekend many are on reduced hours), we begin by hustling to catch a morning boat tour. The list of activities would be too long to run through, so in very simple graph form we did:
Cost of Stockholm Card: 290 SEKValue of stuff we did 1020 SEK (3.5 times the value of the card)
As you can see we power-toured our asses off, in fairness the Statdshuset was done the following day (as a 24 hour card it was still valid the next morning). All in all the greatest value was for the palace, because the palace is a must see and because it is actually considered to be 4 attractions each with its own admission price (Apartments, Foundation, Treasury, Armoury). The most impressive display was the Vasa, however housing it by itself in a museum seem to be stretching it a little far (a whole museum dedicated to a ship that sink the Stockholm harbour….), Skansen was also great fun and struck me as a place that would nice to visit in summer. The aquarium offered us some welcomed warmth (its like a rain forest in there), and had a very nice coffee shop with tables right on the sea.
After our power trip we head back to the hostel to make some pizzas and are resolute about going out for the night. I flip through our options and feel that the Absolut Icebar is a great place to get started, however the bar is packed and waiting list is long, the bar can only hold about 30 people and they can stay as long as they like (unlike non-weekends when the max is 45 min). We decide to head off to the Opera House bar supposedly very chic, but a long walk. We get there and are told that the bar is booked for an event, guest list only. Feeling both cold, and frustrated, we finally opt for a bar having a student night. I am slightly unimpressed and probably more moody than I should have been, still we have a beer, have a dance, and head back.
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