Copenhagen - a hotel boom town

During 2006 Copenhagen expanded its hotel capacity with 450 new hotel rooms, and that expansion will continue in 2007 with three new hotels. At the same time a number of existing hotels have completed or will complete renovations. As a result, the city now offers a wide selection of contemporary hotels.

Currently, the Danish capital can offer a choice of more than 13,000 hotel rooms spanning a wide range of overnight accommodation from top-class, five-star hotels, to low-price accommodation in contemporary designed rooms at Europe's largest city hostel.

In 2006 two hotels opened in Copenhagen: the Copenhagen Island, located on an artificial island in the middle of Copenhagen harbour, and the four-star Adina Apartment Hotel Copenhagen, near the Little Mermaid.

In 2007 three new hotels will welcome guests. In April a budget hotel will open in the outskirts of Copenhagen, next to Ballerup Arena, offering 130 rooms. Meanwhile, later next year two new exclusive hotels, each with 12 rooms, will open at unique locations in the city centre. The first will be Denmark's first floating hotel, located in Copenhagen harbour and boasting three-star facilities. By the end of the year the city's first all-suite hotel will open in Tivoli Garden.

The Copenhagen hotel boom

Copenhagen has been one of Europe's growth centres since the late 1990s. The Copenhagen hotel boom began in 1999 with the opening of the First Hotel Vesterbro****. In 2001 both the 382-room Hilton Copenhagen Airport***** and the 395-room Copenhagen Marriott Hotel***** opened their doors at the same time as a number of existing hotels commenced renovation and/or expansion. These projects signalled the start of a major expansion in the number of hotels in the city, an expansion that continues to this day.

As well as these significant increases in capacity, the fixed link between Sweden and Denmark - which opened in July 2000 - has meant that more than 28,000 hotel rooms are now available in the Øresund Region as a whole, encompassing Copenhagen and Malmø.

New hotels in 2007

The new Danish hotel chain Zleep will open its third hotel in April 2007. The hotel will be situated close to Ballerup Super Arena, 15km outside Copenhagen. The concept behind the hotel chain is to offer travellers accommodation in pleasant surroundings, but without extra luxury services. The hotel will have 130 rooms.

Denmark's first floating hotel, Copenhagen Living, will open its gangway for guests in the summer of 2007. The hotel will be located in the inner harbour just ten minutes walk from central Copenhagen and is operated by the company Waterliving. The ship offers 12 exclusively decorated rooms.

By the end of 2007 or, at the latest, by the beginning of 2008, visitors to the famous Tivoli Gardens will be able to stay at a hotel in the gardens themselves. The hotel will be Copenhagen's first 'all-suite' hotel only offering 12 exclusive suites - there will be no single or double rooms - all overlooking Tivoli Gardens.

Pending hotel projects

The already impressive facilities of the congress and convention venue Bella Center will be augmented with a four-star hotel with a wellness-center, a restaurant, a café and a skybar. Whit its 800 rooms the hotel will be the biggest hotel in the Nordic countries. Bella Center will itself construct the two 75 metres high buildings, while the issue of who will run the hotel it is currently under discussion with potential partners. The project will be completed in the beginning of 2009.

In 2008 on of Denmark's largest hotels will open in the city quarter Ørestad, close to the congress and convention venue Bella Center and next door to the largest shopping centre in Denmark, Fields. The two-star hotel will offer 700 rooms and be operated by the Danish budget hotel chain Cab Inn, which already operates three other hotels in Copenhagen.

The real estate company KLP Ejendomme is preparing to build a new, four-star business hotel in the new city quarter Ørestad on land currently used for parking. The plan is to build a 60,000 sq m building which will house both offices and the new hotel. The hotel is expected to have 240 rooms and commence construction in 2008.

Finally, looking a few years ahead Tivoli Gardens will offer yet another, more spacious hotel with 150 rooms and five-star services and facilities. Foster + Partners have designed a slim tower as a contemporary interpretation of the Copenhagen spires vis-à-vis the town hall tower and a cluster of buildings consisting of a series of cylinders with green roof gardens elegantly terraced down to the scale of Tivoli. The garden element and the circular forms have clear references to Tivoli's existing buildings and landmarks, thus emphasising the relationship to the Gardens.

Source: Wonderful Copenhagen

Last updated on: 02-01-2007	<< Back   Top