Arlanda to Drottningholm: Visiting the Royal Palace on Arrival Day

If your hotel offers early bag storage or your check-in time happens to line up, dropping luggage first before continuing to Drottningholm is the simpler option — you visit unencumbered, and the car has already done its main job by the time you're touring the palace grounds.

If that timing doesn't work, or your accommodation is out of the way, going straight to Drottningholm with your luggage is also possible — it just means thinking through where the bags go once you're there.

We can't confirm what Drottningholm Palace or the Royal Court allows in the way of luggage storage or what you can bring onto the grounds with you — that's worth checking directly with the Royal Court or the palace's own visitor information before you commit to arriving with bags in tow, rather than assuming either way.

Whichever route you choose, tell us how much luggage you're travelling with when you book, so the car sent has room for it — a couple with a normal case each fits a Standard or Electric car, while a family or larger group benefits from the SUV/XL category.

Heading straight to a landmark like Drottningholm on arrival day is a good instinct — it's a way of starting the trip rather than losing the first afternoon to hotel logistics, especially if your flight lands earlier than your check-in time would otherwise allow. The palace and its grounds reward a visit when you're not rushing, so building the transfer and the visit into one plan, rather than treating them as two separate errands, tends to work better than squeezing a trip out there in between other things.

Whatever you decide about luggage and timing, your flight is tracked once you book, so the plan for the rest of the day can be built around your actual landing time rather than a guess made while booking weeks in advance.