Meant to post this last year as soon as I got back from sleeping on a bench in Copenhagen airport but the anger abated! Just a warning that if you plan on spending a night at an airport hotel on the "other side" of security checks and have only an e-ticket for a flight the following morning do not assume they will let you through. I had a reservation at the transit hotel in Copenhagen airport hoping to catch a few hours sleep before an early departure. Security were (reasonably I suppose, after all anyone can print something which loks like an e-ticket) suspicious of my e-ticket and said I should have arrived several hours earlier (this was at around 8pm) to get a special boarding pass from the airline desk. A "real" ticket would have been OK apparently.
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Hi scotcan, my understanding is that everyone has to have a boarding pass at any airport to get through security. I think this is true whether a passenger has an eticket or a paper ticket. But sure sorry that you had this problem. It was a long night for you I am sure.
Thanks! It was a very long night. Perhaps I should have anticicpated the problem but I'd never been to Copenhagen airport before and the hotel info simply said I needed a ticket. In truth I didn't know it was even possible to check in for a flight the night before which would have given me the boarding pass. I still think the problem was exacerabted by the eticket as the security people did say that a "real" ticket would have been OK. I will ask a LOT more questions next time!
scotcan, we all learn something new everytime we travel. Well at least I sure do. The hotel should have given you better instructions. Do we get a trip report