Malmö is hosting ESC 2013

[AdelAdel]

As a citizen of Malmö, it seems I need to contribute with some correct information, otherwise this thread is just getting worse and worse.

Firstly, crime is really not an issue here. As every city Malmö has some bad areas, but these are bad according to swedish standards and would probably look like paradise according to the standard of any other european city. As long as you avoid them you can be sure to be safe here.

Secondly, the commuter train lines in the Copenhagen area are totally integrated with the ones in Scania (english for "Skåne", the southermost province in Sweden where Malmö is located). All trains between Copenhagen and Malmö stop just outside the Malmö Arena and the next stop on the danish side is Copenhagen Airport - Kastrup. There is a train leaving every 20 minutes, in rush hours even every 10 minutes.

There are no boats or ships going between Copenhagen and Malmö. All commuting is done via the Öresund bridge, either by car, bus or train.

I can also recommend you looking for hotel rooms to look for vacancies in the other cities next to Malmö. The city of Lund is 22 minutes away by train directly from the arena without any transfer, the city of Helsingborg is 50 minutes away (60 km from Malmö). Copenhagen Central station will be 30 minutes away. Other options could be Landskrona and Eslöv.

The countryside around here is beautiful in May. It's mainly farming country but still with lots of adventures around here. And remember - you will have easy access to the whole Öresund region with both Scania in Sweden and Sealand in Denmark.

Welcome all to Malmö!

Wait, wait, wai.... you mean there's like... land connection between Sweden and Denmark? :shock:
I didn't know that!

 

[Sim]

I think it would be very easy to scale down the Friends Arena if they should want to. 35000 tickets is no problem any night IMO

Also said that to him, but that would be too difficult he answered, for what reason I don't know

 

[LalehForWD]

As a citizen of Malmö, it seems I need to contribute with some correct information, otherwise this thread is just getting worse and worse.

Firstly, crime is really not an issue here. As every city Malmö has some bad areas, but these are bad according to swedish standards and would probably look like paradise according to the standard of any other european city. As long as you avoid them you can be sure to be safe here.

Secondly, the commuter train lines in the Copenhagen area are totally integrated with the ones in Scania (english for "Skåne", the southermost province in Sweden where Malmö is located). All trains between Copenhagen and Malmö stop just outside the Malmö Arena and the next stop on the danish side is Copenhagen Airport - Kastrup. There is a train leaving every 20 minutes, in rush hours even every 10 minutes.

There are no boats or ships going between Copenhagen and Malmö. All commuting is done via the Öresund bridge, either by car, bus or train.

I can also recommend you looking for hotel rooms to look for vacancies in the other cities next to Malmö. The city of Lund is 22 minutes away by train directly from the arena without any transfer, the city of Helsingborg is 50 minutes away (60 km from Malmö). Copenhagen Central station will be 30 minutes away. Other options could be Landskrona and Eslöv.

The countryside around here is beautiful in May. It's mainly farming country but still with lots of adventures around here. And remember - you will have easy access to the whole Öresund region with both Scania in Sweden and Sealand in Denmark.

Welcome all to Malmö!

At last a voice of reason!!

 

[LalehForWD]

Also said that to him, but that would be too difficult he answered, for what reason I don't know

You think he was actually present at the negotiations?

 

[Sim]

You think he was actually present at the negotiations?

I don't know, but think he knows why Malmo is been chosen as he is one the important guys for esc

 

[Nike]

A reason why not Friends Arena was picked according to Sietse Bakker: getting so much people for the final is no problem, but for the semis it's much more harder...

The big question is that how a 15,000 arena will be enough?

 

[cactus99]

@AdelAdel,

yes, there has been a bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen for 12 years now ...

 

[Stargazer]

I'm not bothered by Malmö's crime rate, that's not my reason for not wanting Malmö. For me it's all about the fact that Denmark will get most of the money from tourists and we'll get next to nothing, when we're the ones who won! I don't think it's fair that another country will benefit more than the host country.

That and the small arena.

 

[Sim]

^^

I can understand that EBU doesn't want half empty arena during the semi.
But don't think it would be difficult to transform the friends arena to an arena with like 40000 seats.

 

[LalehForWD]

It seems to me even more obvious now that SVT is enforcing an EBU policy. Probably a policy they support strongly themselves. It would be good if they could explain in more detail though.

 

[Sim]

^^

what EBU policy do you mean?

 

[LalehForWD]

@AdelAdel,

yes, there has been a bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen for 12 years now ...

 

[cactus99]

Regarding the arenas, you are all forgetting some important things: The arena used for the final needs to be booked and made available for more than a month, and the Friends Arena will simply be too expensive, although they can take more people in for the shows.

For the swedish final they don't need the arena for more than a week or so.

 

[AdelAdel]

@AdelAdel,

yes, there has been a bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen for 12 years now ...

Good to know

 

[LalehForWD]

^^

what EBU policy do you mean?

I don't know. But it is highly controversial to sign to Malmö instead of Stockholm and they would need someting more than just economical reasons. They knew it would cause folkstorm.

 

[LalehForWD]

Regarding the arenas, you are all forgetting some important things: The arena used for the final needs to be booked and made available for more than a month, and the Friends Arena will simply be too expensive, although they can take more people in for the shows.

For the swedish final they don't need the arena for more than a week or so.

I saw something of a budget of 115 million SEK (somewhere). This wouldn't fit in Stockholm.

 

[cactus99]

I'm not bothered by Malmö's crime rate, that's not my reason for not wanting Malmö. For me it's all about the fact that Denmark will get most of the money from tourists and we'll get next to nothing, when we're the ones who won! I don't think it's fair that another country will benefit more than the host country.

That and the small arena.

It's quite obvious you live in Norrland and are not aware of the real conditions. There are lots of cooperation going on between Scania and danish capital region. More than 20.000 people commute over the bridge every day, living in one country and working in the other. It's not Sweden against Denmark. Both countries benefit from this cooperation as both countries will benefit from the ESC.

 

[Trece]

I wonder how many paid Denmark, that to have chosen Malmö?

 

[LalehForWD]

@ cactus99

Do you know anything about the tickets? I mean will they sell locally?

 

[Nike]

It's quite obvious you live in Norrland and are not aware of the real conditions. There are lots of cooperation going on between Scania and danish capital region. More than 20.000 people commute over the bridge every day, living in one country and working in the other. It's not Sweden against Denmark. Both countries benefit from this cooperation as both countries will benefit from the ESC.

This is so wrong!! Why should Denmark benifit from Sweden hosting ESC. It's Sweden who must pay for ESC. We need to do ESC activities, to build the stage... Copenhagen don't need to pay anything, they just benefit from Sweden's ESC. So sorry this is the worst decision ever from SVT. Copen will benefits most from ESC 2013.