Ærø

Welcome to a real island
A real island is an island without a bridge. The excitement evaporates if you can drive there.
To reach Ærø you have to take a ferry, your own boat, or else fly to the grass airstrip.

In the marina for 300 yachts, there are barbeques, camping grounds and beaches at Vester Strand.

On such a trip, you quietly adjust to the peaceful island life. In the summer, you can find a whole tapestry of life at the harbours, in the towns, on winding streets and cycle paths and on the lovely beaches. In the effervescent spring, or the contemplative autumn, or even in winter there are lots of opportunities to talk to the island’s inhabitants, who are naturally but unobtrusively curious about what other people are doing. The locals are friendly and hospitable. It is very easy to strike up friendships during your stay.

Ærø is approximately 30 km long and l9 km wide at its broadest point. This is the perfect size for a well-functioning community, with schools, a hospital, doctors and a full range of facilities and services.

A varied commercial life and a wide range of accommodation make Ærø an ideal place for a holiday. It has everything: attractions, unique countryside and a lots of entertainment, whether restaurants, gathering places or cultural events, to add a little excitement to your relaxing holiday.

Well off the beaten track, Ærø is an idyllic island with small villages, rolling hills and patchwork farms. It's a great place to explore by bicycle as the country roads are dotted with thatched houses, old windmills and ancient passage graves and dolmens. Ærøskøbing - a prosperous merchant town in the late 1600s - has been preserved in its entirety. Its narrow, cobbled streets are lined with close-standing 17th and 18th century houses, many of them gently listing half-timbered affairs with handblown glass windows, decorative doorways and street-side hollyhocks. In keeping with the town's character, sights are low-key. The main attraction is Flaskeskibssamlingen, a museum dedicated to the lifetime work of Peter Jacobsen, a local sailor nicknamed Bottle Peter, who created 1700 ships-in-a-bottle, many of which are in handblown bottles.

There are daily car ferries from Funen and Faaborg to Søby at the western end of Ærø. A less frequent ferry to Søby departs from Monmark in Jutland. Ærøskøbing in central Ærø is serviced by ferries from Svendborg. Ferries run to Marstal in eastern Ærø from Rudkøbing, and also from Kiel in northern Germany.

Sejladsen til Ærøskøbing foregår W om Dejrø (Møllegab) i den afmærkede fyrbelyste rende.
Største skibe som kan besejle havnen længde 50m, bred 17m, dybgang 4,5m.

Så kommer valget , vil man ligge i Trafikhavnen eller i Marinaen, det er et temperaments spørgsmål, men begge er åbne for gæstesejlere, hver havn med sin charme.

Ærøskøbing Havn ligger midt på Ærø og hvorend man kommer fra, Svendborg Sund gennem Højestene Løbet og Ø-havet til Ærøskøbing, øst fra gennem Mørkedybet eller vest fra N om Skjoldnæs og så igen Ø-havet, nem at besejle og endvidere en smuk tur.