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Leaving Your Trip in NYBORG
This page offers help (concrete or informational) on leaving your trip. Topics include...
- Where you leave your trip (see immediately below)
- The closest airports
- Our “Access Packages,” designed to help you get to them.
- Suggestions on how to time your ongoing travel, whether you are having us arrange it, or doing it yourself.
- Service information regarding train travel from your trip end location.
- Suggested post-trip visits, especially when these are not geographically obvious, but are rendered economical and convenient by direct rail connections.
- Hopefully helpful hints for those setting up their own travel from the trip.
If you wish to arrange some or all of your travel through us, please tell us what by means of this response questionnaire, designed to collect all the information we need to be able to book your travel.
1. WHERE and WHEN Do You Leave Your Trip?
Your trip disbands in Nyborg on Saturday afternoon, at the end of a full riding day. Nyborg is a small city on the east coast of Fyn (the big island that sits roughly in the middle of the country).
If you wish to arrange your own ongoing travel (in other words, you do not want to set up any ongoing travel arrangements through us), a couple of hints regarding ongoing travel are offered at the bottom of this page. Otherwise...
2. The CLOSEST AIRPORTS
For intercontinental service, Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport is the obvious choice (flights to everywhere).
If it doesn’t suit for some reason, a Sunday flight from any of Stockholm, Oslo, Frankfurt or Munich will work (you can get to these points via overnight sleeper train: confirm train-plane connections, especially in Oslo or Munich, before booking your flight).
Discount European flights serve Arhus, which can be reached by direct train in a couple of hours. See “Service Information,” below, for details.
3. Our ACCESS PACKAGES
as of January 20, 2008
Our Access Package includes a train to Copenhagen, and a hotel night there on Saturday night. Alternate packages are available to London.
Base (Starting) Access Package Price: 94€.
If you are a North American traveller, the $ price (US or Canadian) on your price chart applies until 35 days prior to trip departure. Otherwise euro prices are transcribed to your invoice in its currency, converted at the exchange rate of the day on which the package is requested (rounded to the nearest whole dollar or pound). Current “mid-market” rates can be consulted from the site we use for conversion. We use the mid-market rate on the day of conversion, and add 2% to cover currency broker exchange commissions (our conversion rates are thus as good as, or better than, any you could obtain, including via your credit card, unless you are a professional currency trader).
Availability is normally guaranteed until 35 days prior to trip start (payment received by us). Within 35 days, availability must be confirmed, and costs may be slightly higher. Some extra-cost options also have higher prices if ordered w/in 35 days.
Included:
- A Saturday train to Copenhagen Central Station
- A seat reservation on any train which requires one
- A hotel in Copenhagen, based on shared occupancy
Our usual Copenhagen hotels are clean, well-located... and simple. The shoe box-sized rooms do have private bath, but there is a bit of a youth hostal feel to these places. This is a choice on our part: spending money on Scandinavian hotels is really easy, and you won’t need our help to do it. Conversely, finding affordable lodging without some major defect is tough. Our view: your time in Copenhagen is not best spent in your hotel room, and so spending a pile on it is a misallocation of resources. But, if you aren’t too close to 200€, get on your favorite search engine, and book the Palace! We do offer an upgraded “superior” room at our usual place, at an extra cost. Same utilitarian design, but less coffin-like....
Options Offered at an Extra Cost (subject to availability)
Prices are in addition to the “Base” Access Package Price. For a general discussion of train upgrades, see here. Topics include the relative comfort of 1st versus 2nd class, and different types of accommodation available on overnight trains.
- Single Room in Copenhagen: +20€
- “Superior” Room in Copenhagen. +28€ per room, single or double.
Same utilitarian design, but less coffin-like....
- Tickets on to Oslo or Stockholm from Copenhagen.
- By Sunday daylight train: + 79€ 2nd class, +129€ 1st class (only available to Stockholm).
These are discount rates that are usually, but not always, available.
- By Sunday overnight train: + 119€ in a double cabin. +169€ in a private cabin.
- 1st class train tickets to Copenhagen (in lieu of 2nd class): + 11 €.
Alternate Arrangements, in lieu of our usual packages (subject to availability)
Prices are complete (in other words, they are not in addition to the “Base” Access Package Price).
- Tickets to London via Saturday overnight train, including a couchette on board (sleeping car upgrades available). 169 € if you are also purchasing tickets from London at the start of your trip, 209 € if not, or if you prefer a changeable ticket (if you prefer 1st class on the Eurostar channel tunnel TGV from Brussels to London, 209 or 259 €; 1st class tickets include meal service).
- Overnight trains run to a great variety of destinations in Continental Europe (Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Munich, etc.). A flat fare of 129 € applies, including a couchette, provided you are on a trip of 2 or more weeks, or arrived in Denmark by train (159 - 179 € otherwise).
- Saturday evening train to Copenhagen, no hotel: 29 € 2nd class, 44 € 1st class.
If a seat reservation is required on the next departing train, it can be purchased locally, and will cost circa 50 DKr (8 €).
4. TIMING Your Trip
Saturday is a full and enjoyable riding day, and should not be rushed. We suggest that you not pre-book any train, but rather enjoy a relaxing day, and get to Nyborg “when you get there.” Trains to Copenhagen run constantly, and the trip is quick. The night train to the south departs circa 8p, and so if that is your vehicle, you still have plenty of time to catch it.
5. Service Information
Schedules are approximate – exact timetables can be consulted at http://www.raileurope.com/us/rail/fares_schedules/index.htm.
Best trains are mentioned. Others are slower or have multiple connections.
- To Copenhagen, downtown or airport. Half-hourly trains.... Journey time is a shade over an hour.
- To Oslo. It is possible to reach Oslo via an all-day Sunday trip, with a morning departure from Copenhagen and an evening arrival in Oslo. But we suggest the sleeper train, instead. Saves a hotel night, and gives you a day in Copenhagen.
- To Stockholm. Fairly frequent service, about 6 hours for the trip. Or, spend Sunday in Copenhagen and use the overnight sleeper train to Stockholm. Wastes less time than flying, and saves a hotel night.
- To London. Daily departure from Nyborg at 8p, arrival in London at 12:30p the next day, with connections in Köln at 7a, and Brussels at 10a. From Copenhagen, alternate (Sunday) departure at 5p, with a 10p connection in Hamburg, and earlier arrivals at destinations.
- To Paris, Brussels, Munich... daily departures from Nyborg at 8p, mid-morning to late morning arrivals at destination. From Copenhagen, alternate (Sunday) departure at 5p, with a 10p connection in Hamburg, and earlier arrivals at destinations.
6. Suggested POST-TRIP VISITS
Copenhagen, Oslo, the Norwegian fjords....
7. Hints on TRAVELLING INDEPENDENTLY After the Trip
Guests subscribing to an “Access Package” need not read this section.
See also “Timing Your Trip” and “Service Information,” above, as either of these may additionally help.
We gladly provide travel consulting (schedule or routing information) concerning post-trip individual travel. In particular, we have invested a great deal to become railway experts. Our service fees are reasonable: a 20 € charge for all but the most complex projects – or the most simple (for instance, only a 10 € charge applies if the service is limited to the preparation of a routine rail ticket). You will generally find them well-justified by the time they will save you in research, standing on line, overpaying for your tickets, or all three.
But, for some, this type of research is fun. So, here are some hints, intended to start off hardened “do-it-yourselfers.”
Trains. Schedules for all routes can be consulted on this web site:
http://www.raileurope.com/us/rail/fares_schedules/index.htm
Nyborg is linked to Copenhagen via half-hourly train, to Hamburg (Germany) every two hours (via a connection in Kolding). Trains to the rest of the continent depart from Hamburg. Travellers to Oslo will go north, via Malmo in Sweden.
Planes. Ryanair flys from Arhus (about 2 hours from Nyborg) to London.
If you wish to arrange some or all of your travel through us, please tell us what by means of this response questionnaire, designed to collect all the information we need to be able to book your travel.
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