That's what it costs if you do not have the correct train/bus/metro ticket during your trip. It's literally daylight robbery, especially if you had genuinely forgotten to buy a ticket for an extra zone.
Ivy and I went to shopping mall Fields on Friday after work. To get to Fields via the metro, you would need to have tickets for Zones 1 and 3 if you leave from downtown Copenhagen. It had been a long time since I went to Fields, which is a quite outside of Copenhagen centre, so it slipped my mind that we would need to buy a 1-zone supplement ticket for Zone 3 on top of the Zone 1 ticket which Ivy and I already had.
Zone map for S-train and metro (red part is where we started from, circled part is where we got off - in Zone 3)As bad luck would have it, the metro ticket controller came onboard to check our tickets while we were sitting and chatting away, and it was only then that we realised that we were already in Zone 3 and without a valid ticket!
Damn, that was a very pricey mistake. 2 x 600 DKK fines came our way, and we hadn't even started shopping in Fields yet! We didn't bother to "argue" / "beg" the ticket controller to let us off even though it really was an honest mistake. These "arguments" and "beggings" never go anywhere anyway. So yeah...that was a costly "gift" from us to the metro company. Buying an extra zone ticket would have costed us a mere 9.50 DKK (S$2.70), but nooo.....we just had our pay day so we wanted to give away our money as soon as possible to companies who don't deserve it.
Anyway, despite that unfortunate and unnecessarily expensive incident, Ivy and I had a good time shopping and then going to a Japanese restaurant (Restaurant Sushi) close to Nørreport Station afterwards for dinner. We made darn sure to get an extra zone ticket on the way to the restaurant, but of course, there was no ticket controller coming onboard to check tickets then in order for us to proudly show that we have valid tickets.
It is said that the punishment should always fit the crime. I really think that a "punishment" of 600 DKK for not having a valid ticket onboard Danish public transportation is way too much for a crime that does not even hurt anyone... . Oh well, no use crying over split milk... .
