Last Friday Anna and Maciek were speaking about “ Consumer’s tips in Stockholm”.
And now we can divide with you again this information and provide some useful links, which would help you to arrange your life in Sweden spending less money.
Transport.
Air.
The closest aiport to Stockholm is Arlanda. There are two more airports which usually are called Stockholm’s airports also. They are Skavsta and Vasteras. They are far away from city and it takes you minimum 2,5 hours to come to centre after you flight. The ticket for this bus cost more than 200 sek to come from airport to T-Centralen station.
Ground.
Public transport is good developed and of a good quality, but not cheap.
There are different kinds of tickets which you can buy for using them in Metro, busses and suburb trains. Of course, if you are not going to use public transport every day you don’t need month’s card but it is actually the cheapest one you can buy. But them you can buy only in Central offices of SL. Look up more information on their official site www.sl.se. Here you will also find the schedule of all transport systems in capital and suburbs, and the shortest way to get from place A to place B.
The most expensive is single ticket by sms.
The cheapest is month’s card which costs about 700 sek. per month. But ! if you will show your Student Card ( which you will get by mail soon from your university) you will have a discount.
Place to live.
You are very lucky if you managed to get room in campus. It will save you time to get to Uni every day and money in payment. Average room in Campus costs about 15 000 per term. At the same time if you decide to rent out an apartment you should be prepared to pay from 5000 till 1000 sek per month. ( depends from the place where you gonna live and it’s area). You can also rent out a room or cooperate together with you classmate, as a lot of people do. Here is site which can help you to find a room or a flat: http://www.blocket.se/stockholm?q=&cg=3020&w=1&st=u&mre=&ros=&roe=&ss=0&se=8&ca=11&md=th
Also you can stay in line for a flat from government or a room from Campus. More info you can find here: http://www.bostad.stockholm.se/ ( information is provided on 9 languages)
Shopping.
Food.
There are a lot of different nets of food stores in Sweden.
Hemkop , ICA and Coop are Swedish one and the most expensive.
Lidl is German and one of the cheapest stores. But, of course, there are products from different producers and maybe not the same high quality like in Swedish nets.
Willy:s could be a good place for ‘smart’ shopping.
Clothes.
There are seasons of discounts in Sweden. You just need to be attentive and catch the moment. Discounts can go down till 70%.
But there is the place Outlet Stockholm, where discounts are all year round))) 55 different brands in one place for low prices – what could be better?
http://www.qualityoutlet.com/
Entertainment.
FILM.
To go to the cinema will cost you about 150 sek. Not bad, isn’t it? To buy dvd with a movie is also not so cheap if it is a new and popular one. There is an option to rent movies. Then you can get 4-5 movies for 100-120 sek for a week. It sounds better, or?
Clubs.
Want to go out and feel comfortable, not standing in line on the entrance? Then go to the Internet first and find on facebook community of you club and just put your on list.
But be ready that drinks will cost you a lot in the club. Alcohol is very expensive in Sweden. That is way cruises on boats are so popular here. When you go by boat to Finland, Poland or somewhere else you are in a tax-free zone.
Did you get the point?
If you have more questions just write a comment in blog.
We will be happy to answer.
Cheers, Anna N. Kazakova and the Crew.
