FREE bikes - if you can find one! and other Copenhagen, Denmark Transportation Tips

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Bicycle
Getting TO/AROUND: Copenhagen's FREE bikes are a splendid idea. Several thousand of these brightly coloured push-bikes can be found chained-up at over 100 different locations.

You need to put a 20DK coin in the slot to release your bike. The coin is returned when you replace the bike at a bike 'station'.

The bikes can be cycled anywhere within the inner city - there is a map on the handlebars showing the limits.

There are no lights or cable brakes. To brake you need to pedal backwards (it takes a bit of practise). Cycling at night without lights is illegal, so dont cycle after dark, or buy some lights!

A big problem is (a) finding a free FREE bike and (b) finding a convenient bike 'station' at the end of your journey. It can take a bit of searching, or luck!!

Another problem is that if you leave your FREE bike outside a cafe or shop, someone else may walk off with it, together with your 20DK coin. Believe me this happens, and I have tried it myself on a desparate moment. After all, they are public bikes and not anyone's private property!!

At the splendid Royal Museaum of Fine Arts there are lots of bushes by the gate. I hid my free bike in the shrubs and, yes, two hours later it was waiting for me there :-)

The bikes are not available all year. From May to December, I think. It gives the city time to repair them all for the new season, I expect.

ENJOY!!

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'Mode': TO
Category: Train
Getting TO/AROUND: The transport hub of Copenhagen, nextdoor to the Tivoli Gardens and 2 minutes from the Town Hall Square. Here you can buy tickets and travel on the various rail/metro networks. There are dedicated counters in the ticket office for tickets to the airport. You need to take a numbered receipt from a wall machine and wait for your number to be called.

The station has a fabulous timber roof.

There is an excellent left luggage office. As you come up from the platforms, the office is to your left, down some steps at the corner of the station. The office has long opening hours (till 1am, I think) and various sizes of lockers too.

Tourist Information is out of the station building, on the southeast side of Banegardspladsen.

Always loads and loads and loads of bicycles parked outside! There are two or three (free) City Bike points next to the station too, though they are usually the first in the city to become de-biked :-) Try the bike point on the east side of Town Hall Square.

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