©expat copenhagen - night train somewhere between münchen & kobenhagenfrom vienna there are two possibilities to get by train to kopenhagen. both are going through night. the one line goes overnight to hamburg with a german train and continues to kobenhavn. the second one is a fast train to nürnburg (ICE) and continues with the overnight train coming from münchen going to kobenhaven!
we joined that night train for our first visit with a second class double cabin. well, I wouldn't say it's spacious, as you see, but if you take some sleeping pills and ear plugs you'll sleep well! You wake up with a little breakfast and you're fitter than you are when you ride a car!
costs vary, but you have to think of 600€ both ways in a double cabin!
wien<>kobenhavn 1390km by car over the bridges
when you take the car it's exhausting! you should sleep over night somewhere inbetween. (which is always a possibility to see nice little villages/towns or cities, as we did in Germany: Würzburg and Hamburg. For this, the Etap Hotels are great! cheap & clean & easy!) It takes you about 13-15h pure driving time. we use to listen to audiobooks a lot, because it keeps your mind working and keeps you focused.
the storebælt-bridge connects Fyn with Sjælland and is very spectacular! the toll is 30 € each way and can only be reduced if you've got a little electronic box for frequent drivers!
wien<>kobenhavn 1250km by car & ship
almost the same way, only that you pass Berlin and drive to the little town of Puttgarden from where you take the ferry to Sjælland, Rødby. It saves you 150 km but also takes 45 min with the ferry. costs for the ferry are 64€ (from 00:15-04:15 only 50€) and it takes 45 min.
in terms of carbon footprint the train wins over the car! in terms of budget it's vice versa!
(train 600€ - car 300€) still it's far better then traveling by plane, but we're still unsure if we should drive over the bridge again or take the ferry for the first time!?
any suggestions?
Would that mean that you would have your car with you here, if you drove? Cause that wouldn't be so bad. You'd then have your car to explore your new homeland, and you'd have plenty of room for all the stuff you're bringing. Even though transportation here is really good, it's nice to have a car to do exploring in.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise - train. The ferry from Puttgarten gave me a fright one time. It was really bad weather, and everything on the ferry was flying through the air. Not fun. I thought the train to and from Cph/Paris was really easy and comfortable. And fairly fast. And I slept like a baby.
hej jennie, thanks for your comment. we'd LOVE to take our car with us, it doesn't use a lot of fuel, but as it is fairly new it would cost a fortune to register in denmark. and as soon as we have our cpr number, we're no allowed to drive around with an austrian number plate.
ReplyDeleteit's also so much cheaper to go by car. for example we wanted to go by train to cph next week, but it would cost twice as much as going by car and we'd have to pay for our doggy as well. being green really requires a big budget in that case :-)
well, otherwise we havn't figured out what to do with our car, maybe there is a solution we haven't looked into, yet.
otherwise I really love taking the train, but at the moment we just can't afford it.