jenbuFL
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2014
Hello-This is my 2nd trip report so bear with me and my (maybe) unconventional writing style. This was our 6th cruise with DCL. The other trip report was of our Alaskan cruise in June of 2015. I still read through that trip report when the memories get a little foggy. So I thought I would give it another go.
We are me, my husband, and our 15 year old and 11 year old sons. We live in Florida so we were looking forward to a change in weather and scenery.
We had a 7 pm flight from Orlando on June 2nd on Icelandair. We had a short layover in Iceland and then arrived in Copenhagen around 1:30 pm on Saturday, June 3rd. Unfortunately, not all of our bags made it back onto the plane during the layover. After a long wait at CPH, the woman at baggage assistance told us that indeed our bag was still in Iceland. 3 out of the 4 bags we had did make it. The nice lady had assured me that Icelandair would deliver our bag to the Magic the next day. I felt very uneasy with that! There really was no other option for us than just to trust the system and have faith that it would all work out. The airport is a good distance to the port so that only added to my worries. The nice lady assured us that "this happens all the time...." -definitely not helping.
So we went on with our plans for the day. Our plan was to take the train to Malmo, Sweden. I had researched and learned that there is luggage storage in the parking ramp P4 at CPH. We brought our luggage over to the storage area. Our 3 large bags and 2 backpacks fit into one large locker. We paid for 24 hours-although you can pick a shorter time allotment (4 hours) but I didn't want to risk going over our time limit. The 24-hour locker was 100DKK ($15.00).
We got our tickets to Malmo which also includes the train into Copenhagen's central station. To be honest I don't know exactly how far the ticket covers in Copenhagen. I asked the person helping with tickets to make sure we didn't need to buy a separate ticket to go to the central station in Copenhagen. I was told that ticket would cover us back and forth to Malmo (from CPH) and to central station. The price for 2 adults, 15 year old and 11 year old was 268 DKK about $40.
The train took about 20 minutes and we got off at the Triangeln station in Malmo. Our goal was to visit Malmo Brewing Company. We had a refreshing pint and then got back on the train and headed to central station in downtown Malmo. There are quite a few bike sharing/rental programs and we had decided to use Donkey Republic. Donkey Republic was great. You use your smartphone to unlock the bikes. The bikes were located in an underground garage. We were able to unlock all 4 with just one phone. The bikes fit all of us-even my 11 year old. They are great because you can lock and unlock them with the app on your phone-but no worries you don't need cell service. The cost is around 100 SEK ($11.50) for 24 hours. Malmo is a great city for bike riding. We went to see the Turning Torso up close and visited a few playgrounds. We rode all around before we stopped at Max Burger for a quick bite to eat. We brought the bikes back to central station-with Donkey Republic you have to bring the bikes back to the place where you rented it.
We got on the train and headed back to CPH to pick up our luggage. After picking up the luggage we got back on the train and headed to central station (Kobenhavns). Our hotel was Hotel Danmark less than a mile from the central station (just around Tivoli). We were able to walk to the hotel although it wasn't the smoothest walk since in was nearly 11pm and we were all pretty tired and the sidewalks were pretty crowded with Saturday night party goers. The hotel was very nice. Although the junior suite we had booked was no longer available we were given another room that was big enough for all of us and we all fell fast asleep. Breakfast was included and it was a simple but good breakfast.
On tap for the day was a canal tour and then a stop at the Round Tower. We were able to store our luggage at the hotel and set out to rent bikes again. This time we tried Go bikes (30DKK per hour). There are banks of Go bikes all over. Each bike has a screen attached to the bike. The screen allows you to rent the bike and it allows you to lock and unlock the bike with a special password that you pick. Go bikes are heavier than regular bikes because they are power assisted. The bikes worked great for most of us but were too heavy for my 11 year old to control. Fortunately, there was a bank of Donkey Republic bikes right there so we rented one of those for my youngest.
We rode over to the canal tours at Nyhavn. It was a wonderful tour although it had started raining. So I would bounce back and forth from inside to outside to take pictures. We learned quite a bit about Copenhagen and it's history. The tour lasted for about an hour. After the tour we headed over to the Round Tower. It was still raining so the views from the top were pretty drizzly and therefore we didn't spend much time on the observation deck. The Tower itself is really neat and we enjoyed our time checking it out.
It was about 1 pm and we decided it was time to head to the ship. We headed back to Hotel Danmark to collect our luggage and get a cab to the port. The front desk called us a cab and it was there within 5 minutes. The trip to the port was about 20-25 minutes. There were no lines at the terminal and we made it onto the ship within 20 minutes. Since it was about 2 pm our stateroom was ready so we were able to drop our backpacks and check out our little oasis for the week.
After lunch at Cabana's we headed back to the room and much to our happiness our lost bag was there! I was pleasantly surprised that it had indeed worked out and our lost bag had made the long journey from Iceland to the Magic by itself!
Next up day at sea....ATTACH=full]245283[/ATTACH] [GALLERY=][/GALLERY]
We are me, my husband, and our 15 year old and 11 year old sons. We live in Florida so we were looking forward to a change in weather and scenery.
We had a 7 pm flight from Orlando on June 2nd on Icelandair. We had a short layover in Iceland and then arrived in Copenhagen around 1:30 pm on Saturday, June 3rd. Unfortunately, not all of our bags made it back onto the plane during the layover. After a long wait at CPH, the woman at baggage assistance told us that indeed our bag was still in Iceland. 3 out of the 4 bags we had did make it. The nice lady had assured me that Icelandair would deliver our bag to the Magic the next day. I felt very uneasy with that! There really was no other option for us than just to trust the system and have faith that it would all work out. The airport is a good distance to the port so that only added to my worries. The nice lady assured us that "this happens all the time...." -definitely not helping.
So we went on with our plans for the day. Our plan was to take the train to Malmo, Sweden. I had researched and learned that there is luggage storage in the parking ramp P4 at CPH. We brought our luggage over to the storage area. Our 3 large bags and 2 backpacks fit into one large locker. We paid for 24 hours-although you can pick a shorter time allotment (4 hours) but I didn't want to risk going over our time limit. The 24-hour locker was 100DKK ($15.00).
We got our tickets to Malmo which also includes the train into Copenhagen's central station. To be honest I don't know exactly how far the ticket covers in Copenhagen. I asked the person helping with tickets to make sure we didn't need to buy a separate ticket to go to the central station in Copenhagen. I was told that ticket would cover us back and forth to Malmo (from CPH) and to central station. The price for 2 adults, 15 year old and 11 year old was 268 DKK about $40.
The train took about 20 minutes and we got off at the Triangeln station in Malmo. Our goal was to visit Malmo Brewing Company. We had a refreshing pint and then got back on the train and headed to central station in downtown Malmo. There are quite a few bike sharing/rental programs and we had decided to use Donkey Republic. Donkey Republic was great. You use your smartphone to unlock the bikes. The bikes were located in an underground garage. We were able to unlock all 4 with just one phone. The bikes fit all of us-even my 11 year old. They are great because you can lock and unlock them with the app on your phone-but no worries you don't need cell service. The cost is around 100 SEK ($11.50) for 24 hours. Malmo is a great city for bike riding. We went to see the Turning Torso up close and visited a few playgrounds. We rode all around before we stopped at Max Burger for a quick bite to eat. We brought the bikes back to central station-with Donkey Republic you have to bring the bikes back to the place where you rented it.
We got on the train and headed back to CPH to pick up our luggage. After picking up the luggage we got back on the train and headed to central station (Kobenhavns). Our hotel was Hotel Danmark less than a mile from the central station (just around Tivoli). We were able to walk to the hotel although it wasn't the smoothest walk since in was nearly 11pm and we were all pretty tired and the sidewalks were pretty crowded with Saturday night party goers. The hotel was very nice. Although the junior suite we had booked was no longer available we were given another room that was big enough for all of us and we all fell fast asleep. Breakfast was included and it was a simple but good breakfast.
On tap for the day was a canal tour and then a stop at the Round Tower. We were able to store our luggage at the hotel and set out to rent bikes again. This time we tried Go bikes (30DKK per hour). There are banks of Go bikes all over. Each bike has a screen attached to the bike. The screen allows you to rent the bike and it allows you to lock and unlock the bike with a special password that you pick. Go bikes are heavier than regular bikes because they are power assisted. The bikes worked great for most of us but were too heavy for my 11 year old to control. Fortunately, there was a bank of Donkey Republic bikes right there so we rented one of those for my youngest.
We rode over to the canal tours at Nyhavn. It was a wonderful tour although it had started raining. So I would bounce back and forth from inside to outside to take pictures. We learned quite a bit about Copenhagen and it's history. The tour lasted for about an hour. After the tour we headed over to the Round Tower. It was still raining so the views from the top were pretty drizzly and therefore we didn't spend much time on the observation deck. The Tower itself is really neat and we enjoyed our time checking it out.
It was about 1 pm and we decided it was time to head to the ship. We headed back to Hotel Danmark to collect our luggage and get a cab to the port. The front desk called us a cab and it was there within 5 minutes. The trip to the port was about 20-25 minutes. There were no lines at the terminal and we made it onto the ship within 20 minutes. Since it was about 2 pm our stateroom was ready so we were able to drop our backpacks and check out our little oasis for the week.
After lunch at Cabana's we headed back to the room and much to our happiness our lost bag was there! I was pleasantly surprised that it had indeed worked out and our lost bag had made the long journey from Iceland to the Magic by itself!
Next up day at sea....ATTACH=full]245283[/ATTACH] [GALLERY=][/GALLERY]
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