| I'n not sure whether reservations are possible. Try phoning them from the
train station (there's an overnight train from Amsterdam that arrives in
Copenhagen just before 8 am.) Another good bet for a cheap room is the
room service at the train station. I've used it many times with great
success. You generally get a bedroom in a private apartment. Some of these
are mini-hotels (with several tourists), others are spare rooms in an
ordinary family's apartment.
Must see in Copenhagen: Tivoli. Go in the early evening and watch the
mime show: it hasn't changed for 150 years. The rest of Tivoli is a very
elegant amusement park, with both ok and gourmet restaurants. I ususally
eat at a cheap (for Tivoli) place on the water about half-way back on the
left side (if you come in from the main entrance on Versterbrogatan.
Half the fun of Tivoli is in wandering around checking out the menus.
About a 30 minute train ride (Eurorail works) North of Copenhagen on
Kustbanen (The Coastal Route), between Copenhagen and Helsing�r, is
Humleb�k. From the station, it's about a half-mile walk to Lousiana,
one of the absolutely best Modern Art Museums in Europe.
Back in Copenhagen, you ought to see Vor Frelsers Kyrke (Our Savior's Church:
a beautiful interior and an extroadinary tower (looks like a corkscrew). It's\
next door to the hippie quarter (worth a quick walk through). Busses go there
from the central City Hall plaza (or a mile walk). In the City Hall, there's
a neat clock with dials for everything under the sun.
If you just have one day in Copenhagen, take the night train from Amsterdam
(Couchette), check your baggage in the station, have breakfast (wienerbr�d)
at the station, walk through Str�get (walking street), ending up at N�rreport.
Take the train to Humleb�k and go through Louisana. Train back to N�rrerport,
walk to Kongens Nytorv (climbing Tycho Brahe's observation tower on
K�bmagergade) to Str�get, then to Kongens Nytorv and have an elegant lunch
at Els. (Old, but very nice restaurant with stuffed Elk on the wall. Corner
of Bredgade, St. Strandstrade, and Nyhavn). Other nice places for
lunch/dinner are "On the Sunny Side" and "Den Lille Havrefrue (The Little
Mermaid)", both on Nyhavn. Wander down Nyhavn. There's a ship-fitter on the
South side of Nyhavn (where the tourists aren't) that has very good sweaters.
(South East corner of Nyhavn and Holbergsgade, if I read my map correctly.)
Walk back to town via the small streets just East of Str�get (L�derstrade,
Kompagnistr�de, Farvegade). There are lots of small antique shops here.
You'll end up at another good museum (The Carlsberg Glyptotek.)
The best shops for "Danish stuff" are Iliums Bolighus on Str�get, and
the Danish Design Center On Vesterbrogade on the other side of the train
station from Tivoli.
Spend the evening at Tivoli, and catch the overnight train for Stockholm.
Martin.
|
| Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: [email protected] (Bodil Gram)
Subject: Re: COPENHAGEN, Denmark: any B&B? inexpensive hotels?
Sender: [email protected] (Math Department)
Organization: Open University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 15:21:15 GMT
***********************************************************
THE DO-IT-YOURSELF-GUIDE TO COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
Information about hotels, write to:
Hotel booking, Koebenhavn
Bernstorffsgade1
DK-1620 Copenhagen V
Denmark
(Phone inside Denmark: 33 12 28 80)
Information about tourist attractions and so on, write to:
Danmarks Turistraad
Vesterbrogade 6 D
DK-1620 Copenhagen V
Denmark
(Phone inside Denmark: 33 11 14 15)
Information about travelling to other parts of Denmark by train:
Call 33 14 88 00 from inside Denmark
(It _is_ possible to write to:
Generaldirektoratet for DSB
Soelvgade 40
DK-1349 Copenhagen K
Denmark
They will try to pass on your question to the propper part
of the organization, but they are NOT thrilled to do so !)
I do not know who to ask about currency, perhaps the Turistraad,
or better: Your own local bank.
***********************************************************
[email protected]
_________________________________________________________________________
Ladies don't need those huge signatures to bolster their egos
|