Hotel near CPH or early morning flight into CPH
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Hotel near CPH or early morning flight into CPH
I grabbed one of the very cheap C-class flights Star Alliance offered ex-CPH a while ago. Now I realize, that my positioning into CPH is not as easy as expected, as there are obvioulsy no early-morning flights from BER to CPH. My flight out of CPH is at 10.00 am on 28 August, but the first flight from BER is not before 9 am, so no option. Seems that I have to fly in the day before, as I don't fancy an overnight train or coach ride. Or does anyone have a better idea?
And can anyone recommend a decent hotel near the airport, preferably with airport transfer bus service?
Thanks a lot for sharing your ideas!
edit: I'm sorry, I overlooked the dedicated sub-forum for Nordic Countrys, therefore I didn't get an answer when using the search tool. Please move this posting to the appropriate forum. thanks.
And can anyone recommend a decent hotel near the airport, preferably with airport transfer bus service?
Thanks a lot for sharing your ideas!
edit: I'm sorry, I overlooked the dedicated sub-forum for Nordic Countrys, therefore I didn't get an answer when using the search tool. Please move this posting to the appropriate forum. thanks.
Last edited by ex-koelner; May 24, 2015 at 2:14 am Reason: my stupidness
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Take the train from Berlin to Copenhagen. It gets loaded onto a ferry between Germany and Denmark - a fairly unique experience and Spar tickets are great value. Park Inn @ CPH is usually cheaper than the Hilton though it's a metro stop away from the Terminal.
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I grabbed one of the very cheap C-class flights Star Alliance offered ex-CPH a while ago. Now I realize, that my positioning into CPH is not as easy as expected, as there are obvioulsy no early-morning flights from BER to CPH. My flight out of CPH is at 10.00 am on 28 August, but the first flight from BER is not before 9 am, so no option. Seems that I have to fly in the day before, as I don't fancy an overnight train or coach ride. Or does anyone have a better idea?
And can anyone recommend a decent hotel near the airport, preferably with airport transfer bus service?
Thanks a lot for sharing your ideas!
edit: I'm sorry, I overlooked the dedicated sub-forum for Nordic Countrys, therefore I didn't get an answer when using the search tool. Please move this posting to the appropriate forum. thanks.
And can anyone recommend a decent hotel near the airport, preferably with airport transfer bus service?
Thanks a lot for sharing your ideas!
edit: I'm sorry, I overlooked the dedicated sub-forum for Nordic Countrys, therefore I didn't get an answer when using the search tool. Please move this posting to the appropriate forum. thanks.
Last edited by GUWonder; May 25, 2015 at 5:48 am
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Thanks everybody.
While a night at the Hilton won't plunge myself into bankcruptcy, I'd prefer a more budget-oriented option, as I only need a room for a couple of hours of sleep. And I don't need any fancy bars or restaurants, a park bench for a canned beer and a cigarette at night will do it
I'll travel with a medium-sized bag only, so I wouldn't mind to take the metro or a train a few stations off the airport.
Malmoe sounds like a good alternative, will check out that.
While a night at the Hilton won't plunge myself into bankcruptcy, I'd prefer a more budget-oriented option, as I only need a room for a couple of hours of sleep. And I don't need any fancy bars or restaurants, a park bench for a canned beer and a cigarette at night will do it
I'll travel with a medium-sized bag only, so I wouldn't mind to take the metro or a train a few stations off the airport.
Malmoe sounds like a good alternative, will check out that.
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Thanks everybody.
While a night at the Hilton won't plunge myself into bankcruptcy, I'd prefer a more budget-oriented option, as I only need a room for a couple of hours of sleep. And I don't need any fancy bars or restaurants, a park bench for a canned beer and a cigarette at night will do it
I'll travel with a medium-sized bag only, so I wouldn't mind to take the metro or a train a few stations off the airport.
Malmoe sounds like a good alternative, will check out that.
While a night at the Hilton won't plunge myself into bankcruptcy, I'd prefer a more budget-oriented option, as I only need a room for a couple of hours of sleep. And I don't need any fancy bars or restaurants, a park bench for a canned beer and a cigarette at night will do it
I'll travel with a medium-sized bag only, so I wouldn't mind to take the metro or a train a few stations off the airport.
Malmoe sounds like a good alternative, will check out that.
I like the Hilton CPH, but for value for money -- especially when barely spending any time in the room other than to sleep -- I find Malmo hotels to be a spectacular value. That said, there are exceptions, as with this week when Malmo hotels were almost all sold out and the overflow demand was shifting to Copenhagen hotels or out to rather distant points across Skane.
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If you're looking for a more budget option in Copenhagen, I like the Wakeup hotels - there's one at the back of the main station, and one on Borgergade, a short walk from Kongens Nytorv. Both can be easily reached from the airport: the former by train; the latter by metro. They're well-designed budget hotels - fresh, tiny, but well designed rooms.
(The area around Halmtorvet, near the station, does have a number of decent and reasonable-for-Copenhagen eating options, particularly if you're dining solo.)
(FWIW, the airport is pretty efficient and the city small, so, knowing it well, I have no problem leaving my office in central Copenhagen 90 minutes before a short-haul flight is due to depart...)
In Malmo, I like the Moment Hotel, opposite the station. Again, tiny rooms, but a nice, fresh refurbished old hotel.
(The area around Halmtorvet, near the station, does have a number of decent and reasonable-for-Copenhagen eating options, particularly if you're dining solo.)
(FWIW, the airport is pretty efficient and the city small, so, knowing it well, I have no problem leaving my office in central Copenhagen 90 minutes before a short-haul flight is due to depart...)
In Malmo, I like the Moment Hotel, opposite the station. Again, tiny rooms, but a nice, fresh refurbished old hotel.
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Some really odd suggestions here about Malmo and the Copenhagen red light and junkie district.....
The Hilton sometimes has cheap rates on weekends and I nearly exclusively use my Hilton points there.
In addition to the Park Inn there is a Quality Inn maybe 1 km from the door to T3. You can take the metro one stop as well, and don't bother paying for the ride. There is another sketchy looking place next to the Quality. I have never stayed at these. Don't expect much!
If you head west toward Ørestad (2 stops on the train) there is a Clarion hotel there, as well as a budget Cabinn. This is a newly developed area, so the hotels will be relatively nice in their respective categories. Just a few hundred meters north (can also take the Metro one stop) at the Bella center (trade show location) there is a massive hotel with more than 800 hundred rooms (the largest in Scandinavia). It is actually quite nice with stunning architecture. If there is not a major trade show going on then you can possibly snag a room there quite cheap on Hotwire. I got one for like DKK 600ish a few years ago. Well it came to around USD 100.
Google maps will show all the hotels. There are some more sketchy places around the airport. You can pull up quotes on booking.com.
p.s. I think the Clarion is the only hotel that has a shuttle. But the train options are quite easy and a cab would not be too expensive.
The Hilton sometimes has cheap rates on weekends and I nearly exclusively use my Hilton points there.
In addition to the Park Inn there is a Quality Inn maybe 1 km from the door to T3. You can take the metro one stop as well, and don't bother paying for the ride. There is another sketchy looking place next to the Quality. I have never stayed at these. Don't expect much!
If you head west toward Ørestad (2 stops on the train) there is a Clarion hotel there, as well as a budget Cabinn. This is a newly developed area, so the hotels will be relatively nice in their respective categories. Just a few hundred meters north (can also take the Metro one stop) at the Bella center (trade show location) there is a massive hotel with more than 800 hundred rooms (the largest in Scandinavia). It is actually quite nice with stunning architecture. If there is not a major trade show going on then you can possibly snag a room there quite cheap on Hotwire. I got one for like DKK 600ish a few years ago. Well it came to around USD 100.
Google maps will show all the hotels. There are some more sketchy places around the airport. You can pull up quotes on booking.com.
p.s. I think the Clarion is the only hotel that has a shuttle. But the train options are quite easy and a cab would not be too expensive.
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Some really odd suggestions here about Malmo and the Copenhagen red light and junkie district.....
The Hilton sometimes has cheap rates on weekends and I nearly exclusively use my Hilton points there.
In addition to the Park Inn there is a Quality Inn maybe 1 km from the door to T3. You can take the metro one stop as well, and don't bother paying for the ride. There is another sketchy looking place next to the Quality. I have never stayed at these. Don't expect much!
If you head west toward Ørestad (2 stops on the train) there is a Clarion hotel there, as well as a budget Cabinn. This is a newly developed area, so the hotels will be relatively nice in their respective categories. Just a few hundred meters north (can also take the Metro one stop) at the Bella center (trade show location) there is a massive hotel with more than 800 hundred rooms (the largest in Scandinavia). It is actually quite nice with stunning architecture. If there is not a major trade show going on then you can possibly snag a room there quite cheap on Hotwire. I got one for like DKK 600ish a few years ago. Well it came to around USD 100.
Google maps will show all the hotels. There are some more sketchy places around the airport. You can pull up quotes on booking.com.
p.s. I think the Clarion is the only hotel that has a shuttle. But the train options are quite easy and a cab would not be too expensive.
The Hilton sometimes has cheap rates on weekends and I nearly exclusively use my Hilton points there.
In addition to the Park Inn there is a Quality Inn maybe 1 km from the door to T3. You can take the metro one stop as well, and don't bother paying for the ride. There is another sketchy looking place next to the Quality. I have never stayed at these. Don't expect much!
If you head west toward Ørestad (2 stops on the train) there is a Clarion hotel there, as well as a budget Cabinn. This is a newly developed area, so the hotels will be relatively nice in their respective categories. Just a few hundred meters north (can also take the Metro one stop) at the Bella center (trade show location) there is a massive hotel with more than 800 hundred rooms (the largest in Scandinavia). It is actually quite nice with stunning architecture. If there is not a major trade show going on then you can possibly snag a room there quite cheap on Hotwire. I got one for like DKK 600ish a few years ago. Well it came to around USD 100.
Google maps will show all the hotels. There are some more sketchy places around the airport. You can pull up quotes on booking.com.
p.s. I think the Clarion is the only hotel that has a shuttle. But the train options are quite easy and a cab would not be too expensive.
I took the (M2/yellow?) Metro train line from CPH past the Park Inn CPH a few days ago and they were checking for tickets very close to there. What are the fines, 750DKK or more? I've seen more ticket checking on the way between CPH and Orestad than on this section of Metro, but unless I'm told it's officially a free zone, I wouldn't travel by Metro or by rail on the CPH-Kobenhavn H line without a ticket. Everyone's risk aversion level may be different.
The Hilton often has relatively cheap rates (compared to its own ADR) on weekends (and points/points+cash are sometimes a very good value there), but it's not all that cheap most of the times I've needed a hotel for convenient travel to/from CPH.
For a cheap CPH transit layover, often I find it cheaper to stay in a Malmo hotel, even when factoring in my transport costs.
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Copenhagen GO Hotel
Do also look into the Copenhagen GO hotel at Tårnby trainstation (one stop from the airport on the railway to København H), 100 m from the train station. Simple, but adequate, usually around 700 DKK/night.
http://www.go-hotel.com/
http://www.go-hotel.com/
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Thanks everybody, very helpful advice. I tend to book a room at the GO hotel. While it gets mixed reviews, it scores by price and location. Unfortunately I'm not travelling on a weekend to benefit from special rates at the Hilton and others.