Copenhagen

Copenhagen (Danish: København) is the capital of Denmark and what a million Danes call home. This “friendly old girl of a town” is big enough to be a metropolis with shopping, culture and nightlife par excellence, yet still small enough to be intimate, safe and easy to navigate. Overlooking the Øresund strait with Sweden just minutes away, it is a cultural and geographic link between mainland Europe and Scandinavia. This is where old fairy tales blend with flashy new architecture and world-class design; where warm jazz mixes with cold electronica from Copenhagen’s basements. You’ll feel you’ve seen it all in a day, but could keep on discovering more for months.

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Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport (CPH) on Amager is the hub for Scandinavia’s largest international carrier SAS — Scandinavian Airlines. Kastrup Airport consistently gets high marks for both design and function — this is a much more pleasant place for transit than, say, London Heathrow or Frankfurt and several carriers service direct intercontinental routes to Copenhagen, including; Air Canada, Delta, Egypt Air, PIA, Qatar Airways, Thai, Singapore Airlines and United Airlines. Check-in lines can get long during peak hours however, so make sure to allocate extra time in the summer. Self-service check-in counters are available, which can cut down on wait times.

A number of low-cost carriers also fly to the airport. EasyJet serves Copenhagen from London Stansted, London Gatwick, Edinburgh, Manchester, Milan, Geneva, Paris CDG, Hamburg and Berlin Schönefeld. Air Berlin [7] flies direct to Düsseldorf, Berlin and Palma de Mallorca. Norwegian [8] offers budget flights to (amongst others) to Oslo, Helsinki, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Budapest, Paris, Geneva, Vienna and Warsaw.

• Train
  It takes twelve minutes by mainline train to get from Kastrup (Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup Station) to the Central Station (Hovedbanegården, abbreviated København H) in the city centre. You need a ticket for three zones, which costs 36 Kr for a single journey and valid for 75 minutes from the time of purchase. Train tickets can be purchased from one of the automated vending machines or the ticket counter located inside the atrium of Terminal 3 directly over the railway platforms; there are lifts and travolators between the platforms and Terminal 3.
• Metro
  The Copenhagen Metro also connects Kastrup with central Copenhagen, with trains leaving every four minutes during the day and every fifteen minutes at night, taking fourteen minutes to the city center (for the same ticket and price of 36.00 Kr). If you want to go to Copenhagen City or Frederiksberg, you should get on the metro. [If you want to go to Copenhagen Central Station or the western part of Copenhagen City, you are better off taking the train.] The airport Metro station is located at the northern tip of Terminal 3 (pass the lifts and travolators to the train platforms) and is covered by the roof of the terminal. There is another metro station named Kastrup, which has nothing to do with the airport except that it is relatively close.

Consider Sturup Airport (MMX) in Malmö, Sweden as well — it’s only 40 minutes by bus from central Malmö, and from there 30 minutes by train to Copenhagen Central Station. Wizzair from Budapest, Gdansk, Katowice, and Warszawa and a few domestic airlines often offer cheap flights to other Swedish cities. There is one daily direct bus by Gråhundbus (http://www.graahundbus.dk/7-besk.htm) which coincides with Ryanair schedules. For other airlines (different arrival and departure times) your other options are: https://www.p-airbus.com and http://www.neptunbus.dk/en. Consider the price of transfer as most low cost destinations served at Sturup are also available at Kastrup Airport.