The Little Mermaid Vandalized
If you visit The Little Mermaid these days you may find that she is more colorful than usual. Vandals have thrown white paint on her, and the photos you get home will be of an unusually decorated mermaid.
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Copenhagen Metro elected World's Best
Today at the
Metrorail 2008 Conference, The Copenhagen Metro was given the award as The World's Best Metro, ahead of of Madrid, Singapore and London.
The award was given in recognition of the Copenhagen Metro's high levels of security, stability and passenger satisfaction by transport specialists from around the Globe at their annual industry conference.
Labels: best, copenhagen, denmark, metro, train, underground, world's, worlds
Credit card payment costs get lowered
From July 1 2008, the credit card transaction cost when shopping in Denmark will be lowered. Today the cost of a credit card transaction can be up to 5.75% of the purchase including VAT, after July 1 it will be a maximum of 3.75%. The price for using debet cards wil be a maximum of 0.3% of the purchase or a maximum of DKK 4 per transaction.
Danish shops and businesses have been somewhat reluctant to offer payment by credit cards till now because of the high transaction cost, and today about one in every three shops offers to take credit cards as payment. The lowered price is expected to bring this figure up to every two out of three shops.
Labels: card, cards, copenhagen, cost, costs, credit, debet, denmark, transaction
Christmas In Copenhagen
It's Christmas season in Copenhagen. This weekend,
Tivoli Gardens opened its doors for the Christmas season with extensive Christmas decorations and 70 stalls offering Christmas items like tree decorations and Christmas presents, and in Nyhavn 25 stalls opened for business along the decorated quay. Next to Nyhavn, on Kongens Nytorv, the d'Angleterre Hotel is decorated and lighted and offers a beautiful view. The people at d'Angleterre really take Christmas and Christmas decorating seriously! The skating rink around the equestrian statue of King Christian V on Kongens Nytorv is currently being built and will add to the things you can do when enjoying the Copenhagen Christmas spirit. The tree on Rådhuspladsen, the Copenhagen Town Hall Square, is in place, lit and decorated according to tradition with the star on top. With a bit of luck we'll have snow as well, but the Copenhagen Christmas spirit is already here and next week the traditional Christmas "lunches" will begin taking place, celebrating the end of the year and the coming of the Christmas and New Year. They begin this early because people usually go to Christmas Lunches several times with family, colleagues from work, friends and association members, and one lunch a weekend is really all you can handle. For tourists this means that there is a lot of people out on town and having a lot of fun each Friday and Saturday night from now till Christmas, making the Copenhagen nightlife even livelier than it usually is. It may be a good idea to reserve tables ahead at restaurants if you want to be sure to get one. If you can, come and take part in the celebrating and get some of your Christmas presents bought too. They'll make a good excuse as to why you go to Copenhagen during one of the biggest party seasons of the year...
Labels: celebration, christmas, copenhagen, decorations, lights, lunch, presents, shopping, spirit
Copenhagen Fashion Week - no hotel rooms anywhere
This weekend, August 8-12, the
Copenhagen Fashion Week is held in Copenhagen and the subject is the presentation of the spring and summer collections for 2008. Fashion is Denmark's fourth largest export sector, and the fair is for fashion professionals, not the end consumer.
Because of the fashion fair, all hotel rooms within 30 kilometers or 20 miles of Copenhagen are full. If you consider coming to Copenhagen this weekend, make sure you have booked a room in advance - Copenhagen Pictures recommends
Copenhagen Hotel Booking or
the booking page on Copenhagen Pictures itself. As this would be a booking within 21 days of the arrival, you might also want to check our
last minute booking option.
But don't expect too much even from these options - Copenhagen will be full of visitors, and hotel rooms are scarce. You could consider booking in Malmoe, Sweden and come to Copenhagen by train, or in smaller Danish towns like Helsingør/Elsinore, Ringsted, Køge or Slagelse - most of these hotels are available through the abovementioned booking options. Whatever you choose, Copenhagen Pictures wish you good luck and a great stay.
Labels: copenhagen, fair, fashion, full, hotels, no rooms available, week
The Town Hall Clock has stopped
At 12 noon today the
Copenhagen Town Hall Clock stopped working. This is now the second time in a couple of weeks that it has gone on strike. The word from the town hall is that the clock is suffering from the wear and tear of the passage of time. Considering its otherwize flawless function since its activation in 1902, that was to be expected. It would seem a good idea, though, for the town hall people responsible for the maintenance of the clock to consider the concept "preventive maintenance"?
Until it is brought back in activity, the Town Hall Square is unusually silent without the usual bell ringing every 15 minutes and on the hour.
Labels: broken, clock, copenhagen, denmark, hall, silent, town
