17 of the best hotels in Copenhagen

It’s fairly apparent why so many guests fall in love with Copenhagen. This is the place big-impact design, artwork, meals and metropolis dwelling marry in an ideal union that’ll have you ever raving as you uncover its high-style harbour, cyclable canals and fairytale-touched streets. Most luxurious hotels right here ship a sensory overload of killer interiors, beautiful rooftop views and quiet courtyards to make the most of the lengthy midsummer nights, whereas snappy service and family-friendly hotels are a given at any time of yr. From historic chateau-like grandes dames to clean-lined masterpieces imbued with influential Danish design, right here’s the place to mattress down, in addition to eat out and drink up, in the capital of Scandinavian cool. 

Main picture: Coco Hotel

1. Hotel D’Angleterre

Best for luxurious
With balcony views over Kongens Nytorv metropolis sq., this historic Copenhagen constructing is a agency fixture on best-in-Europe grand lodge lists. There’s Michelin-starred restaurant Marchal, a glowing palm court docket and a terrific people-watching terrace out the entrance. Most covetable are the chateau-like rooms and suites, the place as soon as Hans Christian Andersen stayed whereas he labored at the National Theatre reverse. Legend additionally lingers that the fairytale creator wrote The Ugly Duckling whereas staying right here. 

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price £££

2. Nobis Hotel

Best for design lovers
A century in the past, this subtle lodge with its landmark façade was the house of the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Times change, however there may be nonetheless an depth to the place, its interiors composed with swooshes of magnificence and beauty notes courtesy of all the hallmarks of Danish design and furnishings. Each room and suite is as clean-lined and spacious as the final and there’s a decadent bar and bistro-y restaurant — however maybe the actual draw is the location; bang in the Copenhagen Cultural District, there’s a symphony of museums in the surrounding neighbourhood to find.

Spa Y
Pool N
Price £££

3. Nimb Hotel

Best for households
Fairytales are in the DNA of this pleasant lodge, a minute’s stroll from Central Station in the coronary heart of Tivoli Gardens theme park. Besides doorstep entry to the rides and rollercoasters of Copenhagen’s beloved pleasure backyard, it is a vacation spot for bedrooms and suites that’ll fit your needs like a glass slipper and serve five-star feasts worthy of Cinderella’s ball. The palatial Moorish design would possibly scream Andalusia, however the vibe may be very a lot Danish, with a terrific rooftop pool, and a brasserie and bar which might be amongst Scandinavia’s best.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price £££

4. Hotel Sanders

Best for tradition vultures
Unlike so many European capitals, Copenhagen is designed for biking, so it’s an enormous assist that bikes (and scooters) are an on-the-house perk at this boutique bolt gap near Nyhaven’s pastel-coloured waterfront promenade. The lodge’s backstory is all to do with the dream of the proprietor (a former Danish ballet star), however extra necessary for guests is the putting rooftop terrace, homey lounge, marquee cocktail bar, and delicate bygone model that eschews progressive Danish design. Happily, there’s additionally a terrific choice of cultural walks and behind-the-scenes excursions that may be booked with the concierge.

Spa N
Pool N
Price £££

5. Manon Les Suites

Best for escapism
Well, this won’t be what you count on. A Balinese-influenced tropical pool draped with foilage, a jungle fitness center with boxing ring, a rooftop lounge and sauna with solar umbrellas and chilly bucket showers — that is Denmark by way of Denpasar, with southeast Asian-inspired public areas which might be dressed to the nines. Despite all this tropical aptitude, uncluttered rooms are fuss-free whereas, location-wise, the lodge overlooks Copenhagen’s pleasant rectangle lakes. Note: solely over-12s are welcome.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price £££

6. Skt Petri

Best for actions
The title of this pad is brief for Sankt Petri Passage: the century-old hall that faces this former division retailer in the lesser-explored Latin Quarter of the metropolis. The lodge has grand proportions and room to roam, with a leafy backyard courtyard and lots of suites with balconies overlooking the rooftops. It’s damaged from the mould of most boutique hotels in the metropolis; count on a Middle Eastern-inspired restaurant, yoga classes, DJ nights and winter jazz swing-a-thons.

Spa N
Pool N
Price £££

7. Villa Copenhagen

Best for the pool scene
When centrally positioned Villa Copenhagen opened, heads rightly turned. The brag was that it might be a grande dame lodge for the twenty first century and its place in the 100-year-old premises of the Central Post and Telegraph Head Office made the prospect much more tempting. And it doesn’t disappoint. There’s an artwork to making a rooftop pool and this one is fabulous, as is the terrace bar, sauna and smorgasbord of espresso store, bakery and restaurant. It’s super-slick and rooms are like a stroll by way of a design journal, with all the curves in the proper locations. Here, they name it “aware luxurious”, however we desire “knocking your socks off”.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price £££

8. Radisson Collection Royal Hotel

Best for Danish modernism
This lodge has the fingerprints of legendary Danish designer and architect Arne Jacobsen throughout it. It’s no peculiar Radisson, however one which lays declare to being the world’s first design lodge, with its timeless model and performance courting again to the Nineteen Sixties heyday when swan, egg and pot chairs have been all the rage. You’re in for an excellent time at Café Royal Copenhagen and its adjoining cocktail bar, with tipples named after a who’s who of Danish designers. Have a “draft espresso” of vodka, Baileys and Galliano in Jacobsen’s honour.

Spa Y
Pool N
Price £££

9. Avenue Hotel

Best for trend-spotting
Before Norrebro turned the pop-culture hipster suburb that it’s as we speak, the neighbourhood was a bit down-at-heel and maybe too edgy for guests. Several late-night bars, espresso retailers and trend-setting eating places later, this culturally vibrant space is a magnet for travellers, with the Avenue Hotel at its nerve centre. Complimentary bikes are for exploring the surrounding streets (a pedal by way of close by Assistens Cemetery is a should), and there’s a non-public courtyard and wine hour that will help you heat up for Denmark’s best nightlife.

Spa N
Pool N
Price £

10. Coco Hotel

Best for sustainability
The eco-savvy homeowners of this Vesterbro lodge, who run 16 of the best eating places in the metropolis, be sure that the natural meals served right here isn’t any half-hearted affair. There’s Café Coco for friend-making and filter-coffee ingesting; Delphine, a Greek restaurant positioned proper throughout the street; plus a summer time terrace and ping-pong room. Most importantly, the guilt-free purpose to remain is that the lodge is powered by photo voltaic power from its personal photo voltaic park and there’s an iron-clad dedication to being plastic-free and power environment friendly. When you guide direct, the lodge donates a tree to CO2-neutralise your keep.

Spa N
Pool N
Price ££

11. Babette Guldsmeden

Best for one thing completely different
Sister lodge to Manon Les Suites, Babette Guldsmeden is one other quirky cracker for these searching for one thing completely different to the tried-and-tested Danish design blueprint. For starters, there are cosy rooms with textile-draped beds, a Mediterranean restaurant, outside rooftop spa, Balinese-tuned lounge and bric-a-brac courtyard hangout — all hardly classical Copenhagen. Location-wise, you’re proper subsequent to the authentic Little Mermaid bronze and inside putting distance of waterfront bike rides into the centre.

Spa Y
Pool N
Price ££

12. Andersen Hotel

Best for HC Andersen followers
Like its namesake Hans Christian Andersen, the rooms of this Vesterbro lodge every inform a unique story, with a fortunate dip assortment of bespoke wallpapers, curtains and cushions. There’s no fairytale theme, however vivid, punchy rooms are colour-coded with a hat tip to the works of Copenhagen’s story teller (cue “Princess” (purple), “Mermaid” (turquoise), or “Emperor” (mild blue). In maintaining with Andersen, who beloved a free social gathering, there’s additionally a each day glad hour with free wine.

Spa N
Pool N
Price £

13. CPH Living

Best for views
Oh, we do wish to be beside the waterside — particularly in Copenhagen the place small boutique hotels outlined by particular person model might be discovered nearly wherever. For some time now, the quirkiest has been CPH Living, a 12-room floating barge anchored on Copenhagen Harbour and with superlative entry to its cycle paths and pure lidos. Rooms are clear and easy, with none maritime kitsch, and there’s a prime deck rooftop lounge for sunbathing beside the seagulls. The lapping waves function free pure sleep aids.

Spa N
Pool N
Price £

14. 25hours Hotel Copenhagen Indre By

Best for younger {couples}
Once a Nineteenth-century porcelain manufacturing facility, then a college constructing for arts and science, now the house of the newest property from on-the-go German lodge chain 25hours. The model has gone to city with the design — no color is spared — and there are function wallpapers, mural wall artwork, slashes of crimson, pink, library inexperienced and a less-than-subtle swirling guide sculpture. Expect a Neni avenue meals bistro, from Tel Aviv-born, serial German restaurateur Haya Molcho and her 4 sons, in addition to a terrific speakeasy-style bar, an outside sauna with loungers, and concrete bikes that will help you discover the metropolis at no cost. 

Spa Y
Pool N
Price £

15. Scandic Norreport

Best for minimalist model
Scandic is to hotels what Ikea is to furnishings: it’s a please-all blockbuster Swedish chain, with simply the correct quantity of model and substance (right here there’s a rooftop sky bar, sixth-floor terrace overlooking Norreport station, imply Danish gin menu and lots of natural meals). The rooms have cool, if minimalist, fixtures and fittings, and there are nightly free drink socials with snacks, or a fitness center for more healthy deeds. Otherwise, go for a people-watching jog round close by Kongens Have park beside Rosenborg Castle.

Spa N
Pool N
Price ££

16. Hotel Ottilia

Best for beer lovers
Copenhagen has lengthy been identified for beer as a result of of world-conqueror Carlsberg, and this luxurious outpost inside what was as soon as half of the former brewery has loads of heritage lingering in its DNA. So in addition to industrial-looking rooms with uncooked concrete, iron beams, and turret home windows, there’s a cool gray and leather-based temper board, plus fiercely trendy Danish lamps and sofas. For beer followers, there’s additionally no purpose to really feel nostalgic. The panoramic terrace dovetailing the aesthetically ace rooftop Italian restaurant Tramonto has a backyard that grows hops. Cleverly, that’s used for the lodge’s personal signature lager.

Spa N
Pool N
Price ££

17. Central Hotel

Best for telling your folks about
Stretching the idea of a crash pad to its excessive, the Central Hotel is little multiple room positioned above a dinky café in Vesterbro. While it’s featherlight on frills (a double mattress, bathe room and mini bar solely), it greater than makes up for it with its speaking level as the world’s smallest lodge, and is the variety of keep you’ll be bragging about for years. Downstairs, the café is simply as teensy, with 5 poky seats — however discovering this degree of cool is the very definition of a contemporary Copenhagen getaway.

Spa N
Pool N
Price £

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