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We're traveling relaxed and departing from Gozo in the middle of the night. Malta is perfectly connected to all of Europe, so we're taking a direct flight with Ryanair. In just under 4 hours, we land at Arlanda (ARN), Sweden's largest airport. This is actually quite irrelevant in the middle of the night because everything is closed anyway. You can also fly into Skavsta and Bromma airports, but these are also closed at night. \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Bolt (like Uber or old-fashioned taxis) will get us safely and quickly to our Airbnb within 50 minutes in S\u00f6dermalm<\/strong>. On trips like this, I always notice the smooth and seamless roads. Completely without potholes and noticeably with a closed surface. That's great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the way, S\u00f6dermalm is the perfect neighborhood and the best choice if you are visiting Stockholm with children. The location is ideal for exploring Stockholm. The island of S\u00f6dermalm is located south of Gamla Stan, the old town. It is connected to the rest of the city by subway (Tunnelbana), tram, bus, on foot, and of course by Uber, Bolt, and taxi. This is super convenient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From S\u00f6dermalm, by the way, you have the best view of the city without having to climb or go up any TV towers. The Monteliusv\u00e4gen<\/strong> is an elevated walkway on the north edge of the island. From there you have the most beautiful and best panoramic view of Stockholm. You practically have the Old Town and the famous City Hall right in front of you. I took the cover photo for the post from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I went to some great playgrounds here with our kids. You can find them all within a few minutes' walk. Swedes are incredibly child-friendly, which is why there are numerous play areas all over the city. Tantolunden<\/strong> is the largest playground in S\u00f6dermalm and ideal for families. We spent a few hours here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Es ist unser erster Tag in Stockholm und nachdem wir \u00fcber den malerischen Monteliusv\u00e4gen in die Stadt gelaufen sind, schl\u00e4gt dort unser Shoppingherz bereits h\u00f6her. In der Drottningsgatan (gatan heisst \u00fcbrigens „Strasse“) angekommen, finden wir die Flagship Stores aller grossen und bekannten schwedischen Marken, wie Lindex und KappAhl, und auch H&M. Letztere betreiben in Stockholm den weltweit gr\u00f6ssten Laden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, we're just strolling today. I just agreed with my girls that we don't need anything today, so we'll casually wander through the city, past all these great shops. \ud83d\ude0a Spoiler: In a few days we'll be splurging here, and we'll end up at the airport with quite a lot of excess baggage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Gamla Stan, Stockholm's romantic and picturesque old town, you'll then find the charming shops. There are countless small boutiques, craft shops, and many, many caf\u00e9s and restaurants here. In a quiet and lovingly decorated caf\u00e9, we can then tick off the first item on our list: There are delicious cinnamon buns here.<\/strong> \u2705 I just love cinnamon rolls best in Sweden, as they are much less sweet and tastier with cinnamon than in Germany or Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the way, fika culture is extremely important to Swedes. At the institute where I worked in 2007, everything was dropped at 2:30 PM and everyone met in the coffee kitchen. No joke, they even sent customers home! I experienced it all firsthand. So, if you're traveling in Sweden, the easiest way to integrate is to always diligently take your coffee break every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stockholm family vacation hidden gem<\/strong>We found a really great game cafe. It's called Fox in a Box<\/a><\/strong> and is actually an escape room. However, you can play board games there for free and enjoy a coffee at the same time. We took generous advantage of this and spent several hours there. Our children loved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apropos Spielen…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wenn deine Kids nicht \u00e4lter als 12 Jahre sind, dann ist das Leo’s Lekland ein MUSS. Es gibt mehrere Standorte. Vier davon befinden sich in Stockholm und wir haben selbst zwei davon besucht. Nat\u00fcrlich sind die Indoorspielpl\u00e4tze in Stockholm auch bei gutem Wetter super spannend. Wir haben es aber f\u00fcr zwei der vier Regentage genutzt, die wir in Schweden hatten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They\u2019ve really put thought into this and created huge play areas, which even largely separate the kids by age. There are great climbing landscapes, slides, ball pits, and a large volcano that can be climbed. A long and steep slide then leads back down from the volcano. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Damit die Kids auch ein bisschen Ruhe vor den Eltern haben, gibt es f\u00fcr uns ein tolles Caf\u00e9 und Restaurant. Tats\u00e4chlich war das Essen hier super und auch der Kaffee war lecker. Es gibt \u00fcbrigens keine Aufsichtspflicht hier. Leo’s Lekland ist eine schwedische Kette und hat sehr hohe Sicherheitsstandards und auch die Sauberkeit ist mir hier sehr positiv aufgefallen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Daher ist das Leo’s Lekland eine Top-Empfehlung von mir, f\u00fcr deinen unvergesslichen und entspannten Stockholm Familienurlaub. \u00dcber die official website<\/a><\/strong> By the way, you save about 10% on admission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stockholm is a beautiful city, and you could easily enjoy 10 days here without needing to leave the city. However, we decided to take the commuter train (pendelt\u00e5g) to Uppsala. The journey only takes about 45 minutes, and the Swedish trains are super comfortable and also affordable. Uppsala is still within the city zone, so a one-way ticket only costs 86 SEK, which is about 7.50 EUR (as of 2026). Children under 12 travel for free in Sweden (train, boat, bus, pretty much everything except planes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Uppsala is a university town north of Stockholm. I've been here several times before, but this time it's somehow special, and much more exciting. Because when we arrived, it was raining cats and dogs. We first got four umbrellas at the train station. That was also the first highlight, because it was really fun to walk to our breakfast cafe. The Melrose Caf\u00e9 Uppsala<\/a><\/strong> It's about a 30-minute walk from the train station. It even started snowing shortly before we arrived. So cool, literally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nach einem leckeren und \u00fcppigen Fr\u00fchst\u00fcck gingen wir wieder zur\u00fcck zum Hauptbahnhof. Ca. 500 Meter entfernt davon liegt das ikonische Geb\u00e4ude „Juvelen“. Dort befindet sich das „Cube of Art“, ein innovatives Museum in Uppsala. Mitten im Geb\u00e4ude befindet sich ein riesiger schwarzer Kubus mit 7 Metern Deckenh\u00f6he. Dessen W\u00e4nde sind mit Laser- und Beamertechnologie vollst\u00e4ndig interaktiv. Du kannst hier malen, mit Figuren in einem Film interagieren bzw. coole Effekte ausprobieren, z.B. wachsen dir gigantische Tentakel, wenn du dich mit dem R\u00fccken gegen die Wand stellst. Ein echtes Highlight, wenn du Stockholm mit Kindern besuchst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Admission costs around \u20ac18 and you need exactly one hour for it. We went there without tickets. The family behind us had to leave for exactly that reason because they didn't have tickets. So we were just lucky that there were still four spots left. That's why I advise you to buy tickets in advance on the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nach dem Museum sind wir alle hungrig durch die Stadt gezogen. Das Ziel f\u00fcr unser Mittagessen war ein ganz besonderes Restaurant. Es heisst „Restaurang Koh Phangan“ und liegt direkt im Zentrum von Uppsala, am Ufer des Flusses Fyris\u00e5n. Sofort, wenn du das Restaurant betrittst, f\u00fchlst du dich auf die wundersch\u00f6ne tropische Insel Koh Phangan gebeamt. Die Deko ist mit viel Liebe f\u00fcrs Detail und typisch thail\u00e4ndisch erstellt worden. Die Atmosph\u00e4re ist sehr speziell, denn du kannst z.B. in einem Tuk-Tuk essen. Auch die Gerichte an sich waren sehr lecker und sogar authentisch. Ich kann dir dieses Restaurant w\u00e4rmstens empfehlen, vor allem, wenn du mit Kindern in Uppsala bist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the afternoon, we also visited the castle. However, only from the outside, because the weather had become great by then, with partly blue skies. I had been to the castle a few years ago and a visit there is worthwhile. In the immediate vicinity, there is a large adventure playground. The kids were allowed to let off steam there. We then traveled back to Stockholm by train in the late afternoon. The Easter Bunny might come the next day, and that was enough motivation for the kids to spend another three-quarters of an hour on the train. <\/p>\n\n\n\n First of all, YIPPEEEEE, the Easter Bunny found us here in the far north. Just in time for breakfast on Sunday morning, we had the happiest kids. Because the day started with a successful Easter egg hunt. Happy kids are the best prerequisite for a relaxing family vacation in Stockholm. After the Easter presents, we then took an Uber to an exciting place where we could tick off the next item on our bucket list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fj\u00e4rilshuset Haga Ocean is located about a 15-minute drive north of Stockholm. It's an ideal option for bad weather in Stockholm because Fj\u00e4rilshuset is a tropical house with a huge saltwater aquarium and a butterfly house. Especially because it was around 2 degrees Celsius (36 degrees Fahrenheit) outside, our visit to the tropics felt incredibly pleasant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The aquarium is huge and some reef sharks swim in it along with colorful reef fish. There are countless smaller aquariums with corals, jellyfish, sea urchins, and much more. Plan for at least two, if not three hours for the Haga Ocean. The butterfly house is also worth seeing, and you can watch them hatch live here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Then we visited the caf\u00e9 there and you won't guess what we could order for lunch: Original K\u00f6ttbullar! That's actually not entirely easy to find outside of IKEA. So we've ticked off the second item on our bucket list: Meatballs outside of IKEA <\/strong>\u2705. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Haga Ocean is located in Hagaparken. It had lightly rained again, which is exactly why we decided to walk through the park. It was worth it, as we saw the Haga Palace in addition to Lake Brunnsviken. This is the residence of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel. Okay, enough culture for today. We'll get picked up by an Uber and spend the rest of the afternoon in the city center, enjoying shopping and fika time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Stockholm Science Museum thrilled us. Especially if you're visiting Stockholm with children, you'll be looking for sights and activities that are fun for the kids, or ideally for everyone. The technology museum belongs to the latter category; it's definitely an activity for the whole family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The museum was founded in 1924 and is the largest of its kind in Sweden. You can easily spend the whole day here. We were at the museum for about 5 hours. Idyllically located on the island of Djurg\u00e5rden, it covers topics such as AI and gaming, as well as climate technology and space research. My highlight was the gaming section, as my former toys were exhibited there. \ud83d\ude04 <\/p>\n\n\n\n For years, I haven't seen a Game Boy or a Nintendo NES. The arcade machines, where you could only play a single game, were exciting and entertaining. I was able to show our kids Donkey Kong, and they found it super funny. Equally amusing was a room with old rotary phones. You could call the individual handsets with a two-digit number. Our oldest called our youngest at number 16. She ordered a pizza from her and was quite disappointed when I told her that you definitely couldn't order pizza with those phones. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was an exciting day and a great visit, which we concluded with a delicious coffee in the Dome Cafeteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I've been looking forward to visiting Skansen for the entire trip, because, as the title suggests, it's the oldest open-air museum in the world. Furthermore, it houses a truly beautiful zoo with Nordic animals. And as mentioned above, we still have one item on our bucket list that we haven't ticked off. But more on that later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For this museum to be really fun, you should have good weather, because 99% of the activities take place outdoors. We had wonderful sunny weather that day and were able to enjoy it to the fullest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Skansen was founded in 1891 and is also located on the island of Djurg\u00e5rden. The best way to get to Skansen is by ferry, bus, or tram. We ordered an Uber again, of course, because we love looking at the area from the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In total, 150 historical buildings from all over Sweden have been faithfully relocated here. For example, we visited a post office that was originally located about 125 miles away in a small town. A lady behind the counter told us the story of the house and its former owners. That was super exciting and original. You can also find real farmsteads, a bakery, a church, and many craft workshops here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Seglora Church, built in 1729, is the most popular wedding church in Sweden. Weddings are still held here today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Unser Highlight im Skansen war allerdings der Tierpark. Es leben hier ausschliesslich einheimische Tiere des Nordens. Die Kids waren zun\u00e4chst etwas irritiert, weil wir nur an ein paar Schafen und sogar Seehunden vorbeigelaufen sind. Aber nach weiteren 15 Minuten Fussmarsch rief eins der Kinder: „Papi, da steht ein riesiges Reh!“ Und tats\u00e4chlich. Am vorletzten Tag unserer Reise in Stockholm mit Kindern sehen wir endlich ein riesiges Reh, \u00e4hhmm….einen Elch! Es sind sogar zwei. Aber leider um die Jahreszeit ohne Geweih, da sie es nach dem Winter abwerfen. Somit –> see at least one moose<\/strong> \u2705. Goal reached, we can go home now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One enclosure further, we see four more reindeer, and even another enclosure with some brown bears. Lynx, wolverines, cows, and a few other Scandinavian animals are also frolicking in the zoo. We round off our visit with a culinary lunch. Here I eat K\u00f6ttbullar for the first time in a wrap, with cranberries and mashed potatoes, all mixed together. It was still somehow delicious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Plan a full day for your visit to Skansen. We were here for about 5 hours, but we couldn't see everything. The trip is ideal if you are visiting Stockholm with children. It is guaranteed not to be boring here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Der Stockholmer Sch\u00e4rengarten besteht aus rund 30’000 Inseln. Eine der sch\u00f6nsten Inseln ist die Insel Vaxholm und sie bezeichnet sich selbst auch als die Hauptstadt des Sch\u00e4rengartens. Insgesamt 5’000 Menschen leben hier ganzj\u00e4hrig. Die Insel ist ca. 3 km lang und 850 m breit. Du kannst also wunderbar \u00fcberall hinlaufen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We depart from Str\u00f6mkajen, which is located directly in front of the Grand Hotel Stockholm. The trip takes a total of 60 minutes and the ferry is quite full, as Vaxholm is one of the most popular islands in the archipelago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arriving in Vaxholm, we first walk around for a bit and then reach a playground. The kids can let off some steam there. I do a bit of work there, but my fingers start to get pretty cold with only 5 degrees. From the playground, we walk all the way north to the coast. It's about a 6-minute walk, and the view from there is phenomenal. Even though we live by the sea, for me it's like living in the mountains. It's always beautiful, though. And every sea, every bay, just like every mountain, has something special about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Die Kinder fragen, ob wir immer noch am Mittelmeer sind. Da muss ich dann in Sachen Erdkunde doch noch etwas aufkl\u00e4ren. Ich lasse sie das Wasser anfassen brrrrrrr…und \u00fcberzeuge sie damit, dass es sich eher um die Ostsee handelt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On our way back to the city, we passed a charming caf\u00e9 called Camilles Tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rd & Caf\u00e9. The family that runs the caf\u00e9, and bakes and makes everything themselves, also lives in the house. Consequently, it feels very cozy there. We felt comfortable and chatted for a long time with a family from Germany whose cruise ship was stopping in Stockholm for a few days. I'm not entirely comfortable with these kinds of ships, but the company was very nice. <\/p>\n\n\n\nStockholm's Best Shopping Streets for Families<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Leo’s Lekland | Das Schlechtwetterprogramm f\u00fcr Stockholm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\n \ud83c\udf89 Leo’s Lekland | Der perfekte Indoor-Spielplatz f\u00fcr Familien in Stockholm\n <\/h3>\n
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Day trip to Uppsala | Sweden's charming university city<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\nEaster in Sweden and the Fj\u00e4rilshuset Haga Ocean<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The National Museum of Science and Technology | Where technology comes alive for children<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\n \ud83d\udd2c The National Museum of Science and Technology | An Exciting Museum of Technology for the Whole Family\n <\/h3>\n
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Skansen | The world's oldest open-air museum in the heart of Stockholm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\n \ud83e\udd8c Skansen | World's Oldest Open-Air Museum with Zoo in the Middle of Stockholm\n <\/h3>\n
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Vaxholm | Day Trip to Sweden's Most Beautiful Archipelago Town<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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