Bob and I traveled from London Stansted Airport to Copenhagen today. Unexpectedly, we had a better experience with Ryan Air than with the airport in general. We had expected our bags to be overweight for Ryan Air, and they were not, so that made us happy as we didn’t have to pay extra money. We also thought there would be quite the queue for the bag dump, but all went well.
We started having (admittedly first world) issues after making our very long way through the duty free shops. I had wanted to buy one last UK newspaper, but by 8 am any shop that sold newspapers were sold out, and quite honestly the stores looked like quite a mess. More importantly, however, we are currently unable to use international data roaming, so are reliant on Wi-Fi, and the wifi at the airport was terrible. So we felt very old school and out of touch for our time at Stansted and were happy to leave it behind when our flight left.
We left London about 40 minutes late, but made up time in the air and arrived in Copenhagen only 15 minutes late. We had a quick trip through Immigration— only asked about length of stay — and absolutely nothing to do for customs.
After picking up our baggage, we headed towards the metro, where we bought and put a balance on a couple of train cards, as we will be using the metro and trains frequently while here.
We took the metro from the airport 7 stops, where we changed to another line for a 4 stop ride to where we got off to walk a few blocks to the AC Hotel. This hotel is connected to a convention center and is south of the downtown core of Copenhagen.
After getting settled in the room, we left to check out a bit of the surrounding area. Much of it seems new, but we did find some cute small groceries and walked through an older housing area across a couple of canals from our hotel.
and evidence of the many bike riders in the area
We’re looking forward to getting into the city center tomorrow.
Peckish Travels 