The citizens of Aalborg are known for being jovial and keen to welcome visitors and offer them a good time. This is the reputation, which attracts an increasing number of visitors to the city. Each year, Aalborg's hotels welcome more than 300,000 guests. In Denmark, only Copenhagen record more guests. In addition, Aalborg receives far more than one million one-day tourists. They come from the resort areas of North Jutland or arrive by ferry from Norway and Sweden to join the summer visitors from abroad staying at Aalborg's camp sites, the new youth hostel, the holiday chalets or on board yachts in the extensive marina area.

Together with Aalborg's own citizenry, the many visitors contribute to the city's teeming night life. More than 300 restaurants and bars await them and at any moment in the twenty-four hours of a day, they can find a place that suits their particular tastes.

Aalborg offers a wide choice of classic gourmet restaurants of international standard as well as whole series of more humble eateries serving Danish and foreign dishes.

There are restaurants, discos, jazz cafés, folk music centres and lively dives with dice games. There is something for all tastes in Aalborg.

Every visitor to Aalborg takes at least one walk along the street known as Jomfru Ane Gade - Denmark's longest stretch of restaurants, bars, and cafés in one street. It's lively for most of the twenty-four hours of the day and not two of the locations are alike.

Festivity and music mark the city all year round. There are special days for jazz, an international opera festival and a number of open air concerts. The last week-end in May sees the annual carnival which gathers up to 50,000 participants. In June there is a Viking drama and a Viking market at the Viking settlement of Lindholm Høje.

It's no wonder that first-time visitors to the city are surprised that, with its 160,000 inhabitants, this city has so much to offer.