Arriving at Copenhagen airport is always a pleasure, luggage arrived quickly and it’s only a short walk to the train station. The ticket machines don’t seem to work with Amex but it’s a simple matter of queuing at the ticket desk, the train to Copenhagen Central station is fast and frequent.
The hotel was the Radisson SAS Royal, the first five star hotel in the city. (more…)
I mentioned a while ago about Air France by CityJet launching new services from London City. Most of these services are now fully operational. However, for reasons I’ve not yet been able to get an answer to the services to Edinburgh, Dundee and Milan Linate are still listed as ‘coming soon’.
UPDATE: Milan Linate has been quietly removed from the list of destinations.
Book a flight between London and one of the major Virgin Trains destinations on the west coast and Virgin will give you free first class rail travel in return for your used boarding pass.
The aim is to get anyone who regularly flies to see how rail travel can be more convenient. (more…)
KLM are holding a weekend sale between 27 and 30 April offering 20% off most economy class fares from most major UK airports. Their lowest prices will be from Heathrow but there will also be a limited number of discounts from London City too.
Here’s an example of the fares on offer:
- London Heathrow to Amsterdam - was £81 now £66
- London Heathrow to Zurich - was £146 now £118
- London Heathrow to Bucharest - was £189 now £153
Due to strike action from Danish SAS cabin crew there’s a higher than usual demand for KLM’s Amsterdam to Copenhagen services. The first leg of the journey was from London City to Amsterdam Schiphol on flight KL1564 which is, as usual, a KLM Cityhopper Fokker 50. The flight was almost full, 42 of the 50 seats were occupied and the flight was delayed slightly waiting for the final passenger to clear security.
We decided a to spend a weekend in Antwerp, however, the Accor website listed our hotel as being situated in Antwerp, it was actually situated in Mechelen. After a brief disappointment at not being able to visit Antwerp, we decided to take a walk around this small and charming town. The centre of Mechelen is very nice with small picturesque churches and houses to small cobbled roads. The weather was very good when we were there and made walking around the town very relaxing. It feels a very laid back town. We passed cafes with people sitting outside sipping coffee, or bars with people inside drinking beer and wasting away the afternoon. After walking around a bit, taking in the atmosphere and working up an appetite, we went around searching for a pub which we could relax in and get something to eat. We passed a pub called ‘The Lord Nelson’ which surprised my friend as this establishment has the same name as a pub he fondly remembers in his home town. We went through the low doors, and into this very traditional style public house. Inside were wood rafter on the ceiling, a wood fire burning at the far end of the bar and various locals talking, laughing, drinking their beers and generally having a good time. We actually spent the rest of day and the night in the pub as it was so relaxing. The food was top class, as was the beer. I started off by sampling the De Konink beer and after a few of these, I moved onto Carlsberg Elephant (ok, not from Belgium, but Denmark, but still a nice beer). The food was superb, I believe I ordered the rabbit with veg.
Mechelen is a lovely town with friendly people and a relaxing place to spend a romantic weekend with your loved one.  I would recommend it to anyone.