After a while the impersonal hotel room makes you miss a place that feels like home and after numerous visits to restaurants, you miss a home cooked meal! You might also start to wonder about the country’s cultural peculiarities and would like to know how the locals view the different aspects of life?!

In Denmark, it is actually possible to meet the Danish people in private as a tourist and thereby receiving answers to some of the questions your stay here might have raised: hundreds of open minded and out-going Danes have opened their homes to tourists by signing up as hosts with an agency that offers the guests some hours of conviviality in private settings in the form of ”home dinners” for the pleasure of guests as well as the host families. Here, you can ask all the questions you want to ­– both in regard to the food, the customs and Danish life in general – and all this while you enjoy a nice home cooked Danish meal – (mind you, we're not talking about French high-cuisine here!!). On top of this, you experience the Danish concept of ”hygge” (coziness) first hand!

Agencies
The agencies ”Dine with the Danes” and ”Meet the Danes” offer this type of arrangement. The agencies know their hosts well and make an effort to ”pair off” the visitors with the right hosts as regards age as well as interests.

Dine with the Danes
v/Anette Haargaard
info@dinewiththedanes.dk
Tel. (+45) 2685 3961
www.dinewiththedanes.dk

Meet the Danes
Ravnsborggade 2, 2
DK-2200 Copenhagen N
info@meetthedanes.dk
www.meetthedanes.dk
Tel: (+45) 3346 4646

Prices
A night in a Danish home can be experienced for about DKK 350 per person. Included in this deal is a two course dinner with drinks, followed by tea or coffee. In some cases, it is also possible to stay the night at the hosts’ home.

Other possibilities
There is also a variant of these home arrangements which is directed at the gay community. It must be stressed that this is not a dating agency, but an agency that solely provides contact between gay and lesbian interest groups.