As we deliberate our household metropolis break to Copenhagen, I requested my common query I ponder earlier than each journey about its metropolis move – is the Copenhagen card price it?
On the subject of loyalty or low cost playing cards, I’m all the time a bit cynical – too many experiences of paying upfront for a ten% off provide that I by no means find yourself utilizing. However there are nice offers on the market, it’s simply understanding which is which. And the identical goes for metropolis playing cards and metropolis passes once you journey.
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I’ve written in regards to the completely different metropolis journey playing cards for Paris, Amsterdam, Porto and Helsinki over time, which all get you into varied museums and points of interest at no cost, generally allow you to leap queues, and provide reductions and freebies in all the things from eating places to shops.
Typically the financial savings look too good to be true – particularly if main points of interest are already free or not included, or the unbelievable figures require you to go to 20 locations in a day. So will the Copenhagen Card prevent cash?
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Planning for our journey to the Danish capital, the Copenhagen Card positively appears definitely worth the cash. There’s a intelligent possibility on the positioning which lets you tick the locations you need to go to, add in particulars of your keep and who’s travelling and it works out what you may anticipate to save lots of.
Having tried it with our deliberate itinerary, a 72 hour Copenhagen Card lower almost 129 Euros off our complete – and even once you account for the truth that we skipped the zoo ultimately when it began to rain, the cardboard nonetheless left us 90 Euros forward.
As a result of there’s lots included: free admission to 80 museums and points of interest within the metropolis and surrounding space, together with the canal boat excursions, Tivoli Gardens (which isn’t low-cost), the Blue Planet aquarium, palaces and castles, plus museums starting from trendy artwork to historic royal belongings.
You’ll be able to filter by family-friendly choices as properly, which brings up just a few locations you won’t in any other case have thought-about, plus a helpful filter to see what’s open on Mondays when many locations shut.
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There’s additionally free public transport included within the Uncover Card, which saves making an attempt to work out which ticket you want in addition to saving money, plus for each grownup card purchased, you may carry alongside two youngsters below 12 at no cost. Infants are inclined to get free entry anyway, however a household with a six and eight-year-old, for instance, might lower prices significantly.
You need to get a free Copenhagen Card KIDS card for teenagers aged 3-11 (these have to be ordered concurrently your grownup move), whereas there are additionally separate Junior playing cards for 12 to 15-year-olds, roughly half the worth of grownup variations. When you’ve got greater than two youngsters aged 3-11 (and also you’re not travelling with one other grownup), you’ll want to purchase a junior card.
You can too select a HOP card which incorporates the hop-on hop-off bus and 40 points of interest (however not public transport), and is legitimate for twenty-four, 48 and 72 hours – you should utilize the buses a number of occasions so long as your card is legitimate.
One bonus is that when you’ve got restricted time or a wet half hour to kill, it’s also possible to pop into a close-by attraction, even when it won’t have been high of your record to start out with.
The cardboard is on the market for twenty-four, 48, 72 hours or 120 hours – and it’s truly achieved by the hour, reasonably than the day, so in the event you select to start out it at 5pm on a Friday, you’ll have till 4.59pm the next day with a 24h card (in contrast to some cities the place beginning at 5pm on Friday would see it expire at midnight the identical day).
It’s price checking the particular particulars for the points of interest as properly – most received’t help you prebook, so in the event you’re visiting in peak season, you could must arrive early. After we took the canal tour, we needed to board at a specific cease – nonetheless the case, you at the moment must go to Ved Stranden, not Nyhavn – additionally needed to queue as much as get a (free) paper voucher, though that now not appears to be required. Now you can prebook identical day tickets although.
It’s even simpler to gather than after we have been final in Copenhagen – then it might be collected at varied factors or despatched to your private home, now it’s totally digital so you should buy on-line and activate within the app, or purchase it straight within the app. You’ll have to be on-line to activate the cardboard, however can then use the app offline/in flight mode in the event you don’t need to blow your knowledge or rack up a roaming invoice.
Then you definitely simply must scan the barcode at every attraction, or once you get on a bus. If you happen to’re taking the metro, simply be sure to have it helpful and that it’s been activated earlier than you journey, then present it to any transport authorities or inspectors in the event you’re requested.
You can too purchase it from web sites resembling Viator, Tiqets and Get Your Information
There are now not any further reductions for issues like eating places, though I discover these are by no means a lot of a saving and half the time by no means someplace I need to go, so there’s no actual loss there!
However when entry to main family-friendly points of interest just like the Copenhagen Zoo, Tivoli Gardens and the canal tour mixed is greater than twice the worth of the Copenhagen Card, I feel it is a deal that’s arduous to beat.
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Disclosure: I used to be given two 72-hour Copenhagen Playing cards courtesy of Fantastic Copenhagen and with help from Go to Denmark. Particulars are appropriate at time of writing, however could change. Comprises some affiliate hyperlinks: any purchases you make are unaffected however I could obtain a small fee.
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