Hotel Kong Arthur

Why it is renowned

The MICHELIN Guide lists Hotel Kong Arthur among its Copenhagen hotels: a building of 1882 in lakeside Nansensgade, between the city centre and Nørrebro, with 214 rooms, a spa and a fitness centre.¹ Ray Charles, Oscar Peterson, Joe Zawinul and Herbie Hancock have stayed here, and Oscar Peterson came back again and again.²

The story

The building at Nørre Søgade 11 went up in 1882 as a home for apprentices, and from the street it still looks much as it did, apart from the hotel sign over the door.² In 1982 it was sold to Einer Honoré, who handed it to his daughter and son-in-law, Bergliot and Hans Brøchner-Mortensen, who gave up plans as a nurse and a carpenter to run the hotel.³ The hotel grew from 50 to 107 rooms in 1989, and in 1997 the family bought Ibsens Hotel on the corner of Vendersgade and Nansensgade.³ When Jazzhus Montmartre needed beds for touring musicians, the founders fitted out a whole floor for them, and the hotel still invites the musicians of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival to jam sessions every year.² In 2013 the next generation divided the business, and Kirsten Brøchner-Mortensen took Hotel Kong Arthur and Ibsens Hotel under the new name Arthur Hotels.³ Arthur Hotels today also holds three restaurants, a run of courtyard gardens, a spa and meeting rooms by Nørreport, and Kirsten Brøchner runs it as owner and director.⁴

What to know it by

• Ni'mat Spa⁵The hotel's spa, with a water temple and massage
• LOFT suites⁵Suites on two floors, a lounge below and the bed on a mezzanine
• Jazz nights²Jam sessions for the musicians of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival