The Best Hotels in Copenhagen – Manon Les Suites

At first sight, there’s little on the outside of this suites-only property on a main road north of the city center that reveals it’s one of the city’s stand-out hotels.

But step inside and the story is very different.

The former factory has been reconfigured in funky riad style with a central courtyard garden surrounded by six floors of balconied apartments.

At its epicenter is the indoor hotel pool, lined with day beds and surrounded by greenery like some wonderfully steamy tropical wonderland.

The owner, Guldsmeden, is behind some of Copenhagen’s more characterful small hotels, including the most recently opened Bryggen.

This was the group’s first venture into something bigger.

The 87 suites are simply done out with raw concrete ceilings, small kitchen areas, and compact bathrooms, all with cheerful Balinese touches such as bamboo towel rails and bright, handwoven cushion covers.

Down in the basement, there’s a hip gym, which feels a bit like a nightclub with its pumping music and industrial aesthetics.

The sixth floor houses the hotel’s restaurant, Chapung, pairing an Asian fusion menu with great views across the city’s lakes and a roof terrace for summer evenings.

The signature breakfast uses all organic ingredients and for true eco-enthusiasts, there is muesli made from leftover breadcrumbs.

This sustainable philosophy extends throughout the hotel, from the use of organic paint to providing compostable toothbrushes.

Address: Manon Les Suites, Gyldenløvesgade 19, 1600 Copenhagen, Denmark
Price: Doubles from about $292

Coco Hotel

Copenhagen Food Collection (better known as Cofoco) is the creative force behind this 2019-opened Parisian-style hotel—a first for the prolific restaurant group—curated with Danish sensibilities in the hip Vesterbro neighborhood.

Set across from Cofoco’s trendy Mediterranean-inspired restaurant, Delphine, the boutique property takes over a centuries-old building on the main Vesterbrogade shopping street with blue-and-white awnings marking its modern Parisian entrance and inviting cafe front.

Inside, the welcoming reception curves around to the buzzy street-level Café Coco, which serves everything from breakfast bites and organic coffee to natural wines and accompanying plates, such as burrata with zucchini, arugula, and pistachio, in a space designed to emanate modern Mediterranean lifestyle.

This cafe spilling out into the hotel’s verdant green inner courtyard is also home to the Coco Bar à Vin, opened in 2022 and offering an extensive list of natural and organic wines, with more than 30 available by the glass, alongside snacks like oysters and charcuterie.

Upstairs, the hotel’s 89 rooms, ranging from singles to suites and family units, are all individually decorated in a fusion of modern and classic Scandinavian style with bold use of color and touches of art.

This accommodation is joined on the upper floors by a ping pong and games room, ideal for families.

Sustainability is a major focus here—the Green-Key-certified building harnesses solar power and operates plastic free.

Address: Coco Hotel, Vesterbrogade 41, 1620 Copenhagen, Denmark
Price: Doubles from around $112

The Best Hotels in Copenhagen – Hotel Denmark

The younger sister to Hotel SP34, Hotel Danmark reopened in 2017 with the architect Morten Hedegaard’s makeover transforming its ‘60s façade with mossy emerald-colored tiles and some clever tree planting.

The bedrooms are styled in a hipster-spartan style, painted deep, inky forest green with contemporary Danish designs such as wishbone chairs, leather headboards, and herringbone blankets.

The effect is handsome, although some of the smaller rooms are only as wide as the bed is long.

Those on the sixth floor, however, can’t be beaten for views of the Tivoli fireworks on a summer’s evening, and above that is a sunny rooftop terrace.

The downstairs bar, with its slatted wooden walls and brass lighting, is busy day and night, staff in pretty star-strewn uniforms pouring glasses of Albariño (between 5 to 6 p.m., it’s on the house) while making dinner reservations for guests at nearby restaurants.

Breakfasts are organic smorgasbords: compote stirred through with cream, sticky Danish pastries, and the classic brod piled high with cheese and salami.

Neighboring Vesterbro and the cobbled streets of Christianshavn are easily explored on one of the hotel’s shiny black bicycles.

Address: Hotel Danmark, Vester Voldgade 89, 1552 Copenhagen, Denmark
Price: Doubles from about $205

Hotel Sanders

When it opened in 2017, this property found almost opposite the stage door of the Royal Danish Theatre became the third hotel from Alexander Kolpin, a former ballet dancer and the son of a theater designer and producer.

Here, Kolpin and the British design firm Lind + Almond created an urban retreat in which theatrical inspiration can be seen through spaces such as the Tata cocktail bar (named after the red curtain in the neighboring theatre) designed with gold lights and plump velvet or damask cushions.

Hotel Sanders houses a total of 54 bedrooms, across three handsome 19th-century townhouses, decked out with mid-century modern furnishings and a whole range of textures from hessian walls to marble panelling and Liberty wallpapers.

Bespoke velvet chairs and vintage Danish lamps provide a glamorous touch to the otherwise homely lobby.

The tiny kitchen restaurant with its low-key bistro menu is a laid-back, plant-filled space perfectly in tune with its young, cool diners.

Of all the relaxed public spaces, of special note is the roof terrace, beautifully lit with Moroccan lanterns and stuffed with rattan furniture and woven rugs.

The brilliant staff are multitasking masters in uniforms straight out of a Wes Anderson film and are happy to sort out anything from superb in-room cocktails to arranging a personal trainer.

Address: Hotel Sanders, Tordenskjoldsgade 15, 1055 Copenhagen, Denmark
Price: Doubles from about $653

The Best Hotels in Copenhagen – Nobis Hotel

This is the Swedish brand’s first property in Denmark, just a few minutes’ walk from the Tivoli Gardens, and the smooth serenity of its sister hotel in Stockholm is very much in evidence.

The stripped-back approach to interior design works well in this hefty building, once home to the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music, with its high ceilings, central marble staircase, and beautiful, ornate coving.

For its latest incarnation, the 77 bedrooms are pleasingly weighty, with dusky-blue walls and herringbone-pattern wood floors, graphic dark-wood four-poster beds and plenty of Danish design details (even the black clothes hangers are from local interiors store Hay).

Of course, in this city of fanatical Nordic foodies, restaurants matter and Nobis’s taupe-toned dining room is a formal affair with ambitions to match.

Local ingredients are celebrated in dishes taking inspiration from across Europe at Restaurant NOI and seasonal cocktails with Scandinavian influence are shaken and stirred at the Marble Bar.

More subdued is the little wine cellar, a cozy but unadorned room which operates as a drinking den for those in the know.

There is also an ultra-secluded (guests only) hammam with a sauna and cold plunge pool.

Hewn out of white marble, it is, like much of the rest of the hotel, a lesson in peaceful, modern minimalism.

Address: Nobis Hotel Copenhagen, Niels Brocks Gade 1, 1574 Copenhagen, Denmark
Price: Doubles from about $342

The Audo

Design-led Audo fits perfectly into the Nordhavn neighbourhood on the northern edge of Copenhagen – developed from its origins as a port to become a design-centric residential, work and lifestyle enclave in which design studios and cafés are transforming its heritage buildings to retain the warmth and soul of the area.

Bjarne Hansen, who is also behind Menu design company, created The Audo in collaboration with Norm Architects and the co-founder of Kinfolk magazine, Nathan Williams.

Behind the original dark-orange façade of a former trade house, this impeccably designed and styled space now encompasses a 10-room hotel, café, fine dining restaurant and concept store – all centred around an amphitheatrical staircase, in which all items of décor can be bought through the hybrid design concept.

Generously sized, residential-style accommodation including suites, studio suites and a penthouse continue the design concept of the rest of the property and come with a careful curation of complimentary minibar items, breakfast in The Audo Salon and use of bicycles for exploration of Copenhagen using The Audo’s own City Guide. Read our full review of The Audo.

Address: The Audo, Arhusgade 130, 2150 Copenhagen, Denmark
Price: Doubles from around $407

The Best Hotels in Copenhagen – The Nimb

This family favorite has long been known for its please-all service (from bike hire to kids’ butlers) and 17 hi-spec but traditional-looking rooms in a 19th century building overlooking the Tivoli Gardens.

These were joined in 2017 by 21 bedrooms occupying a swoopy glass-and-wood extension.

Although the outside of this more recent addition is in complete contrast to the famous, lightbulb-studded original.

The bedrooms are similar in style, overlooking the park and decorated in muted jewel tones with artworks from around the world, ornate fabrics with skeins of rich blue and gold, and heavy wooden Asian antiques placed alongside beautiful Danish furniture.

The star of the show here is the rooftop swimming pool, which is a real boon for families in summer.

There are no fewer than six places to eat at this palatial property, including vegetable-based Gemyse in a glass-walled building inside Tivoli Gardens and Cakenhagen serving a vast array of pastries and tarts, as well as a changing line-up of year-round culinary pop-ups by star chefs.

Address: The Nimb, Bernstorffsgade 5, 1577 Copenhagen, Denmark
Price: Doubles from about $659