Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
creasing number of big European cities, it provides information only about
businesses that pay a hefty display fee of thousands of dollars each year.
This colors the advice and information the office provides. While they can
answer basic questions and have a room-booking service (for a 100-kr fee),
the office is worthwhile mostly as a big rack of advertising brochures—you
can pick up the free map at many hotels and other places in town (May-
June Mon-Sat 9:00-18:00, closed Sun; July-Aug Mon-Sat 9:00-20:00, Sun
10:00-18:00; Sept-April Mon-Fri 9:00-16:00, Sat 9:00-14:00, closed Sun;
just up the street from train station—to the left as you exit the station—at
Vesterbrogade 4A, good Lagkagehuset bakery in building, tel. 70 22 24 42,
The
Copenhagen Card,
which includes free entry to many of the city's
sights (including expensive ones, like Tivoli and Rosenborg Castle) and all
local transportation throughout the greater Copenhagen area, can save busy
sightseers some money; if you're planning on visiting a lot of attractions with
steep entry prices, do the arithmetic to see if buying this pass adds up (249 kr/
24 hours, 479 kr/72 hours, 699 kr/120 hours—sold at the TI and some hotels).
Alternative Sources of Tourist Information:
As the TI's bottom line
competes with its mission to help tourists, you may want to seek out other
ways to inform yourself. The local English-language newspaper,
The Copen-
hagen Post,
has good articles about what's going on in town (comes out each
Thursday, often available free at TI or some hotels, or buy it at a newsstand,
www.cphpost.dk
)
. The witty alternative website,
www.aok.dk
,
has several
articles in English (and many more in Danish—readable and very insightful if
you translate them in Google Translate).
By Train
The main train station is called Hovedbanegården (HOETH-bahn-gorn; look
for
København H
on signs and schedules). It's a temple of travel and a hive
of travel-related activity (and 24-hour thievery). Kiosks and fast-food eateries
cluster in the middle of the main arrivals hall. The
ticket office
is on the left
(as you face the front of the hall), and a
train information
kiosk is right in
the middle of the hall.
