Built in 1933. Architect: Vilhelm Lauritzen. Now listed and protected. The former Daells department store building has become a hotel. Quite modern, quite nice but at the same time quite… ordinary. Room 512 was like the rest of the hotel; functional but not overly cosy. The single most photographed detail of the Skt Petri hotel [...]
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Nimb, Copenhagen, Denmark *****
Posted in Denmark, Europe, Hotel, Top rated, Top rated accommodation on Dec 5th, 2008
It doesn’t look like your ordinary boutique hotel. It doesn’t even look like a hotel. Room 12 is located at the very end of the Eastern Wing at the Nimb. And it has a fireplace! Personal hygiene, room 12 style. Not visible in this picture: The bathtub. The Nimb, Bernstorffsgade 5. On the other side [...]
They called it the punch card tower. It was the first skyscraper in Denmark and the sign of things to come. The exterior, as well as everything inside, was designed by Arne Jacobsen. I honestly don’t think that Jacobsen would have approved the funky light installation above the bed. The lobby will give you a [...]
You will still use a door to enter the place that refers to iself as ”the world’s most exciting and creative lifestyle hotel”. It they didn’t try so gosh darn hard to be special, it would sound like a rathe nice idea. The idea is pretty interesting: In April 2005 this hotel opened as a [...]
The front entrance at the Front. Or Scandic Front Hotel as it’s nowadays called. An apple a day… The folks at the Front cares about your well-being. The location should be pretty OK during the warmer months of the year, (this was January). Prepare to get conceptualized. Arriving at the Front Hotel means that you [...]