Super Cool Copenhagen
We stayed at the 4* Copenhagen Admiral Hotel which is a historic building with super-swish interiors by the quayside. The building has loads of character, friendly staff, gorgeous funs with fun tech like Bluetooth speakers built into the bathroom walls and a beautiful fine-dining restaurant called SALT where breakfast is served. We LOVED the breakfast here and a particular highlight was lots of individually bottled juices and smoothies.
We had a fab time in our 3 nights in Copenhagen, it’s a super cool city with great food, shopping and architecture. There’s also lots of re-purposed industrial buildings being converted into galleries and bars, it’s super easy to get about on foot and using the brilliant water-bus system. Is it pricey? Well yes… like lots of places in Scandinavia eating out isn’t cheap but as long as you know that in advance it won’t come as a surprise and whilst food isn’t cheap, it is really, really good quality so you feel like you got what you paid for.
All-in-all we all really liked Copenhagen, it’s bigger than you think and more of a ‘city’ then you expect from seeing photos of quaint cobbled streets and colourful houses but it feels like a vibrant, energetic and youthful city with a great energy about it.
Here are some of our tips!
1. Two or three nights is enough to see the city with a bit of planning, public transport is really good here so you can get from A to B very quickly. We loved the water-buses and it was really easy to buy tickets on an app.
2. Visit the brilliant street food markets, Reffen was our favourite where we had gorgeous African stew from Baobab, HUGE chicken gyros from The Real Greek and scrumptious fish tacos from Tacos Pastor… all washed down with tasty, tasty pints of delicious Danish beer!
3. Do visit the hippy enclave ‘Christiania’ in the day-time which is worth seeing to experience this unique counter culture community but be respectful and keep your camera in your bag unless the signs say you can take pics.
4. We didn’t go to Tivoli Gardens which is the famous theme park in the centre of the city as we felt like it was too much money… go if you want to but make sure that its worth it for you and types of rides that you like.
5. Do visit ‘Nyhavn’ which is the famous street near the quay with coloured houses but don’t plan to eat there as it’s a bit of tourist trap and the staff in our hotel warned us to stay away!
6. Plan where to go for dinner and book ahead if you can as we found lots of restaurants were fully booked… we had gorgeous pizza at Frankies, a delicious veggie meal at Bistro Verde and pizza take-out from super-cool ‘Another Pizza’.
7. 7-Eleven stores are quick up-scale in Copenhagen with very good fresh food options, well-priced snacks and drinks.
8. Hot dogs are a thing in Copenhagen! Make sure you don’t miss out on this cheap and delicious snack… being a foodie city you’ll find them readily available all over the city with all sorts of exciting toppings.. Vegetarians don’t have to miss out either with the most popular carts like DØP selling veggie versions too.