REJSEKORT - TRAVEL FOR FREE IN COPENHAGEN

Copenhagen has very interesting transportation system. You can choose if you want to travel by bus, S-train, regional train or metro. The price of a journey depends of the number of zones you travel. The ticket for each zone cost 12 DKK, but you can choose minumum 2 zones. If you need more than 8 zones, you are free to travel around the whole capital region with your ticket. Tickets are expensive, but when you choose a clip card the price for a zone goes down to 9.5 DKK. If you buy a card for 7 days, the discounts go on and the 30 days card(they write both dates on the card and it's exactly 30 days and not one month, no matter if the month is February or 30- or 31 days) is only 2 times more expensive than the weekly pass. It's highly recommended to buy a monthly card with picture, because it's 80 DKK cheaper. The transport is still very expensive - compare 605 DKK for 4 zones in Copenhagen and 81 DKK for the whole greater Sofia per month. No discounts if you are over 15. You have already bought your ticket for 4 zones, we are at Nørreport station, so let's go to Lyngby. We can choose between the normal bus 184 (in direction Holte) and the fast 150S (in direction Kokkedal). In 150S there is a screen, where you can watch news and some funny videos and check where the next stop is. There is a red screen in all buses, where you see what's the time and in which zone you are. With small exceptions in all buses there are messages after each bus stop which one comes next. We go in bus 184, we are in zone 1. Næste stop: Statens Museum for Kunst..Sølvtorvet and so until Vibenshus Runddel. Then the zone changes. "Næste stop: Haraldsgade, zone to(2)".... Tuborgvej, zone tredive (30)... Brogårdsvej, zone enogfyrre(41)...Lyngby station, zone enoghalvtreds (51). If you don't speak Danish, you can start learning numbers by travelling even when you don't find the logic. We got off at Lyngby station, but we have still 45 minutes left, before the ticket expires, so let's go back to the city center by train. We can choose between the slow line B and the fast line E. The E line is coming first. We get in and we hear different messages on each station. "Lyngby. Toget er linie E, og standser ikke ved Jægersborg, Gentofte og Bernstorffsvej. Toget fortsætter til Køge."(It is line E and train does not stop at Jægersborg, Gentofte and Bernstorffsvej. The train continues to Køge.) Hellerup..Svanemøllen. Til tiden(on time). At some of the station there is also explanation how to use the new smart ticket called REJSEKORT:
"Sådan bruger du rejsekort. Husk at checke ind hver gang når din rejse starter, og når du skifter transportmiddel undervejs på rejsen. Husk at checke ud, når din rejse er slut og tjek din saldo på skræm."
"This is how you use rejsekort. Remember to check in, when you start your journey and when you change transports. Check out at the end of the trip and check your balance." There are some benefits in using this type of ticket - of course you pay, but you can travel without thinking how much zones you pass and just check out at the end.If you sign up for electronic recharging of the balance, you'll have always money enough to travel on your rejsekort. If you don't check out within 2 hours, they take automatic 50 DKK from your balance. People say that after DSB realized that a lot of people forget to check in and out they gave up developing the system for now, which means that if a man comes to check tickets in the train, he can't see if you have checked in. This means that you might travel for free in the trains. The next step is to order a rejsekort. This will happen... online again. You go to www.rejsekort.dk , then order and you get the rejsekort by normal post. This people love sending letters, you could wait for ages for..Order your rejsekort and enjoy the S-trains!