Meeting Your Trip in ODENSE

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We suggest that you print these pages out, and bring a copy with you to your trip.


When and Where:
We meet at the Odense railway station complex, between 9a and 11a on the trip’s start date, or later by prior arrangement (to accommodate those arriving in Copenhagen the same day via inter-continental flights).

Odense is a mid-sized town on the island of Fyn, a 90-minute train ride from Copenhagen.

The station complex contains a mini-mall, with shops, restaurants, cinema, internet café and public library (!). On the main concourse there is a railway ticket office (with glass walls) opposite the multiplex cinema entrance. Your trip’s coordinator will walk through the area between the cinema and the ticket office on the hour and half-hour (e.g. 10a and 10:30a). He will undoubtedly do something silly like ask “Blue Marble?” to any North-American-looking tourists ostensibly hanging about.

Or, you can look outside for a place not far away which could be transformed into an impromptu bike workstand. If you see a guy with several bikes labeled Blue Marble, you’re on to something.

You will depart Odense by bicycle.
You thus have the issue of changing into your cycle clothes. If you have spent the previous night in Odense, we suggest that you come up to the station dressed for cycling. If you are arriving by train on the trip departure morning, here is a hint: the bathroom on the train is probably cleaner than the one in the station :-(

If you are having us move your luggage , please have it ready for shipment when you arrive at the station meeting. It generally departs Odense by train, a few minutes after noon (though you will see it again tonight in Svendborg if you have one of our luggage transfer services). In other words, the station forecourt at 12:30p is not the place to start unpacking and repacking!



Included in Your Access Package, if you subscribed to it:
A train ticket to Odense, a seat reservation on any train which requires it, and a detailed timetable of the train for which you are reserved, if applicable.

Travel Documents will have been sent to you at home, prior to your departure, unless you are arriving via Paris. In that case, they will be supplied by our Paris office (opening hours). You will receive either a train ticket, or a railpass with accompanying explanation regarding its use, and a schedule for the train that you have reserved.



Getting to the Trip
The following routings are described. You may follow the link to jump directly to yours, or just scroll down.


From Copenhagen, or Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport
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From Arhus
Express trains run hourly, no reservations are necessary.



From Esbjerg
Most travellers .


From the Rest of Continental Europe
If you are coming from the south, you will almost certainly be on the overnight train with your coordinator. Branches of this train come from Switzerland, from Bavaria (Munich), and from Köln (connections from Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam). Your coordinator will typically be on the Köln section, as will the bikes. This train has a pleasant bistro car for a light evening meal, or a breakfast beer. Why not? Everyone else is having one.



Practical Information

About Odense
A very pretty place. The town center has lots of charm. If your Saturday night hotel is here, exploration is easy: anything you would want to see is within walking distance.

If you arrive only on Sunday morning, don’t be frustrated: we return here later in the trip.

Finding Your Hotel, if You are Spending Saturday Night in Odense
The hotel we most commonly use, the “Dormir,” is a short walk from the station: turn right on the street in front of the station and follow it for two long blocks (three blocks if you count the pedestrian crossing as a “block”). Turn left onto HANS TAUSENS GADE. The hotel is just ahead, on the right.


About Shipping Your Luggage

If you are having us transfer luggage for you, either through the trip, or just one-way to the end, please have it ready to go when you meet your coodinator. Though it probably does not need to be said, “ready to go” does not mean “I just have to get my bike clothes out, and change, and put my other clothes in, and do I really need this? and if not can I put it in my transfer bag, and....” Your luggage generally departs Odense promptly at noon (though you will see it again tonight in Svendborg if you have the “Half” or “Daily” Baggage Transfer Service, and can revisit all of these issues).