OleNeitzel / CC BY 4.0Where to stay in Indre By
The old city inside the lakes and the harbour: the medieval streets around Strøget, Kongens Nytorv and Nyhavn, the royal quarter at Frederiksstaden with Amalienborg in it, Rosenborg and the King's Garden, and the station end with Tivoli and the town hall square. Everything a first visit came for is inside it or one bridge from it, the airport metro runs from under it, and it is small enough to cross on foot in twenty minutes. What you give up is a neighbourhood: this is the most expensive ground in an expensive city, and after the shops shut it belongs to people who are visiting.
Price level · Luxury
Area scorecard
Scored 0–10 by Where Stay Guide. No overall total: every traveller weights these differently.
- Sightseeing
- 9.2
- Walkability
- 9.4
- Transport
- 9.3
- Food
- 8.0
- Nightlife
- 7.5
- Quietness
- 4.5
- Families
- 8.0
- Value
- 4.5
- Airport / station
- 9.3
- First trip
- 9.3
Best for
- A first trip, where walking out into the sights is worth paying for
- Short stays, and stopovers built around the thirteen-minute airport metro
- Travellers who would rather not think about transport at all
Choose elsewhere if
- You are watching what you spend, in a city where that is already hard
- You want dinner on your own street rather than on a listed one
- You want quiet: this is the one part of town that never empties
Our picks in Indre By
Best in the old city
Hotel Sanders
Our pick for the centre because it is on Tordenskjoldsgade, behind the Royal Danish Theatre and two minutes from both Nyhavn and Kongens Nytorv — inside the old city rather than on the ring road around it.
Best on the square
Hotel d'Angleterre
Our grandest pick for the centre because it stands on Kongens Nytorv itself, where the metro crosses and Nyhavn begins, in a building its own site says has been on that square for over 270 years.
Best on the water in the centre
71 Nyhavn Hotel
Our pick for the harbour end of the old city: a warehouse at the seaward end of Nyhavn, where the canal meets the harbour rather than where the tour boats queue.
Best for the harbour front
Copenhagen Admiral Hotel
Our pick for the quiet end of the centre: a 1787 warehouse on Toldbodgade, on the harbour front in Frederiksstaden, with the royal palace behind it and the opera house across the water.