Originally Posted by
gnaget
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 Marriott/AC Bella Sky hotel? They may even have a bus to get there from the airport.
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.