Billeje - car hire - in Hirtshals comes with an honest catch: rental desks are not available at Hirtshals station or the port itself, so the working pattern is to arrange your car in Hjorring, about 15 kilometres inland, or at Aalborg and its airport roughly an hour south, and drive up to the ferry town. That matters because Hirtshals exists around its harbour: Color Line and Fjord Line sail from here to Norway - Kristiansand in around three and a half hours, plus Larvik, Stavanger and Bergen routes - making this Denmark's gateway to the fjords. If your plan is to take a rental car onto the ferry, clear it with the rental company in advance: cross-border and sea-crossing permission is operator-specific and needs to be on the agreement. Northern Jutland rewards the wheels regardless - Rubjerg Knude's buried lighthouse and Skagen's meeting seas are short drives away.
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