Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
A 24-hour pharmacy located close to T-Centralen.
CityAkuten
MEDICAL
020-150 150;
www.cityakuten.se
; Apelbergsgatan 48;
8am-6pm Mon-Thu, to
5pm Fri, 10am-3pm Sat)
Emergency health and dental care.
Södersjukhuset
MEDICAL
The most central hospital.
MONEY
ATMs are plentiful, with several at Centralstationen and all the airports; expect queues on
Friday and Saturday evenings in the downtown area.
The exchange company Forex has over a dozen branches in the capital and charges
Skr15 per travellers cheque.
Forex-Vasagatan
EXCHANGE
Near the tourist office and Centralstationen. There's also a branch in Terminal 2 at Arlanda
airport.
POST
You can buy stamps and send letters at most newsagents and supermarkets - keep an eye
out for the Swedish postal symbol (yellow on a blue background). There's a convenient
outlet next to the Hemköp supermarket in the basement of central department store
TELEPHONE
Smartphones are ubiquitous in Stockholm; hence, coin-operated public telephones are vir-
tually nonexistent. The few remaining payphones are operated with phonecards purchased
from Pressbyrån newsagents (or with a credit card, although this is ludicrously expensive).
Ask for a
telefon kort
for Skr50 or Skr120, which roughly equates to 50 minutes or 120
