Copenhagen Train Station
Lasting Impressions....
"the guard wouldn't allow me to sleep cause he confused me with a drug addict." (Marius sk)
"I was waken up at around midnight as somebody poured beer onto my sleeping bag. I was too scared to yell at them and just wipe that off and continue to sleep." (Iwmimi)
"Lots of drunken people were vomiting at the entrance." (Iwmimi)
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- limited benches
- cold
- criminals and drug addicts
- closed at night for 3 hours
by lwmimi, 6/16/2008
My friend was to meet me in Copenhagen in the middle of my trip in the Nordic and I was supposed to pick her up at the bus stop outside the railway station in the early morning. Having limited budget, I decided to stay a short night in the station since I arrived at 11pm and will leave at 6am.
There is less than 10 benches there and not other seats. It's impossible to sleep in the platform as it's freezing cold. But the main lobby isn't any better also. I was frozen even though I wear all clothes I have (including a down coat) and stayed in my sleeping bag.
There're loads of drug addicts or drunken people around. I was waken up at around midnight as somebody poured beer onto my sleeping bag. I was too scared to yell at them and just wipe that off and continue to sleep.
Then somebody woke me up at 1am and ask me where did I put my luggage. I lied that I locked them in the lockers. And he told me that the station is gonna close and suggested me to go to his place. I declined with a trembling voice and he left with a few swear words.
At 2am I was waken up again, this time by the security. The station was closing and I was thrown out to the freezing street in Copenhagen. Lots of drunken people were vomiting at the entrance.
Shivering and scared to death, I wandered around and found a Burger King which opens till 6am. I got in, bought a Burger and started writing on my travel diary. I pretended to be a travel writer getting ideas in the middle of the night so as to prevent being kicked out.
Then I got my friend's message that she'll be arriving at 9 instead of 6...
I went back to the station at 6 and tried to continue sleeping. This time the station looks more safe and clean but I was waken again at 8am that sleeping is not allowed in the station. So I got up and walked around until my friend finally arrived.
(My friend couldn't recognize me, she said I looked terrible.)
Buddies, for the sake of you life, better go directly for the overnight fast food shops to chat with people there if you really need to stay over night there.
by Marius sk
"We came to copenhagen centralstation at 19:00 after a error made by the counter-lady in Oslo that booked us on a train that was weekend-only on a Tuesday??! so we got delayed 2 hours from our interrail-travelplan, which resultet in us (me & my girlfriend) lost our connecting train to hamburg by 30 min. and we had to stay in copenhagen. so we had to stay the night in "wonderful, wonderful copenhagen." (not if you ask me..) we tried to get a room at a hotel or hostel, put everything was totally overbooked, so we went to the nearest 7/11 and got a 6 of carlsberg (About the only positive thing in C.) to last the night out. It was cold, lots of criminals and drugaddicts, and the station was cloesd in the middle of the night for 3 hours, and when they opened at 4.30, the guard wouldnt allow me to sleep cause he confused me with a drugaddict.."
