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Puttgarden ⇄ Rødby · 45 min · about 19 km

Video of the Puttgarden Rødby crossing: boarding, the Belt, arrival

We have not filmed the crossing ourselves, so here are four videos by other travellers that show it from the car window and the deck, alongside our own photos of the same moments. Watch them if you want to see the check-in lanes, the car deck and the 45 minutes on the water before you are sitting in the queue yourself.

Updated 28 September 2026 · Written and photographed by the PuttgardenRodby.com team

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View over the bow as the ferry leaves the breakwaters of Puttgarden

The sister ferry passing close by in the evening light

Cars queuing in the numbered waiting lanes in Puttgarden before boarding — Waiting lanes before boarding

The crossing from Rødby to Puttgarden

Both of these run the full crossing in the direction most of our readers take home: check-in in Rødby, the drive onto the car deck, the Belt and the exit in Puttgarden. They are by other travellers on YouTube, filmed from the car and the deck; our own cameras stayed in photo mode.

Ferry from Rødby to Puttgarden with Scandlines · Canada Tamil on YouTube

Scandlines ferry from Denmark to Germany (Rødby Puttgarden) · DIVERSIA on YouTube

Puttgarden port and the last train ferry

A drive through Puttgarden ferry port, and a farewell to the train ferry, which is a piece of history worth five minutes: until December 2019 the ferries carried the trains between Hamburg and Copenhagen on rails on the lower deck, which is why the ships still have tracks.