Danish Luxury

Hotels By the sea

Helenekilde Badehotel

A seaside hotel of 27 rooms on the Kattegat coast at Tisvildeleje, north of Copenhagen, built as a summer house in 1896 and a hotel since 1904.

Opened
1904
Address
Tisvildeleje

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A room with a view of the garden
A room with a view of the garden

Pictures © Helenekilde Badehotel, from helenekilde.com.

Why it is renowned

Helenekilde Badehotel is a member of the international hotel association SLH.12 Condé Nast Traveller has reviewed it,3 and it has also been covered by Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Observer Magazine and The Sydney Morning Herald, among others.4

The story

The Supreme Court barrister Grüner built the house as a summer home and gave it to his wife in 1896.5 In 1904 it became a summer and bathing boarding house under the name Helenekilde Badehotel, and a side wing followed in 1968.5 The Kølpin family bought it in 2001, and Alexander Kølpin renovated it in 2008, keeping its style and architecture.5 Its rooms look over the Kattegat, and it has a restaurant, Kilden, a sun deck on the cliff and a sauna by the beach.2

What to know it by

  • The main house51896Summer house built for the Grüner family
  • Restaurant Kilden2Seafood and Danish classics
  • Sea-view rooms2Rooms and suites facing the Kattegat
  • Hotel Sanders, also run by the Kølpin family, in Copenhagen
  • Ruths Hotel, another seaside hotel that opened in 1904, in Skagen
Sources
  1. Hotels in Denmark, SLH. slh.com, read 28 September 2026.
  2. Helenekilde Badehotel, SLH. slh.com, read 28 September 2026.
  3. Helenekilde Badehotel, Tisvilde, Denmark - Hotel Review, Conde Nast Traveller. cntraveller.com, read 1 October 2026.
  4. Press Coverage, Helenekilde Badehotel. helenekilde.com, read 28 September 2026.
  5. Om hotellet, Helenekilde Badehotel. helenekilde.com, read 28 September 2026.

Checked 1 October 2026, against the maker's own pages.