Sweden's best-preserved royal palace and its first UNESCO World Heritage Site — a Baroque masterpiece on a lake island just outside Stockholm, still home to the King and Queen, with a Rococo Chinese Pavilion in its park.
Check dates & bookThe royal Reception Halls
€26
Palace + Pavilion (summer season)
€34
Drottningholm Palace stands on the island of Lovön in Lake Mälaren, about 10 km west of central Stockholm — Sweden's best-preserved royal palace of the 1600s and, in 1991, the country's first UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is the permanent home of the King and Queen, who live in the southern wing; the rest of the palace and its grounds are open to visitors.
Building began in 1662 for the Queen Dowager Hedvig Eleonora, to designs by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder; after his death in 1682 his son, Tessin the Younger, completed it. Inside, the grand staircase rises through painted ceilings and sculpture to the Reception Halls — Karl XI's Gallery, Hedvig Eleonora's State Bedchamber, the Ehrenstrahl Drawing Room and Lovisa Ulrika's library — a sequence that traces the shift from Baroque grandeur to lighter Rococo taste.
In the park stands the Chinese Pavilion (Kina slott), a Rococo pleasure palace that began as a 1753 birthday surprise for Queen Lovisa Ulrika; the present building dates from the 1760s and opens in the summer season only. The Baroque garden and the English landscape park are free to walk all year. The 1766 Palace Theatre, whose hand-operated stage machinery still works, is run separately with its own tours.
We are a concierge service: you choose your date, we buy your palace admission on your behalf, and a mobile / print-at-home e-ticket arrives by email, ready to show at the entrance. No wrestling with a Swedish-language booking site — just your ticket, in English, in your inbox.
We are an independent concierge and booking service for travellers visiting Drottningholm Palace. We are not the palace, the Royal Palaces or an official box office; we buy your admission ticket on your behalf and deliver it by email for a service fee.
Plan your visit
A plain guide to what your Drottningholm ticket includes, how all-day admission works, and the two tickets we book for you near Stockholm.
Everything you need to plan a day at Sweden's best-preserved royal palace: opening hours by season, how long to allow, what to see, and how to get there.
A room-by-room guide to Drottningholm's Baroque staircase, gilded state apartments, garden sculpture and the Rococo fantasy of the Chinese Pavilion.
The Palace ticket admits you to the Reception Halls — the grand staircase, Karl XI's Gallery, Hedvig Eleonora's State Bedchamber and the other state rooms — at any time during opening hours on your chosen date. The combined ticket adds the Chinese Pavilion, open in the summer season. Both are emailed to you as e-tickets.
No. Your ticket is valid for one visit at any time during opening hours on the date you choose — 10:00–17:00 from May to September, 10:00–16:00 on open days from October to April. Once inside, stay as long as you like.
No. The Chinese Pavilion is a summer sight: open daily from June to August and at weekends in May and September, and closed from October to April. Our calendar doesn't offer the combined ticket outside the Pavilion's season.
Children aged 6 and under go free with an adult and don't need a ticket. Everyone aged 7 and over needs one.
No. Drottningholm Palace Theatre, built in 1766, is run by a separate organisation with its own guided tours and performances, booked through the theatre itself. It isn't included in our tickets.
Take the metro (T-bana) to Brommaplan and change to a bus for the Drottningholms slott stop — about 30–45 minutes from the centre. Buy SL tickets in the SL app; they aren't sold at Drottningholm. In summer, sightseeing boats sail from Stadshuskajen by City Hall, a scenic hour across Lake Mälaren.
After you book, we buy your admission and email you a mobile / print-at-home e-ticket. Show it at the palace entrance on your visit date. All sales are final; if the palace itself can't admit you on your date, you're refunded in full.
About 1–1.5 hours for the Reception Halls, plus time for the free park and, in summer, the Chinese Pavilion — a relaxed half-day. Add 30–45 minutes each way from central Stockholm by metro and bus.