This site publishes no prices and no star classes, so luxury cannot mean the dearest or the five-starred. Here it means what could be verified on the hotels' own sites: a restaurant of their own and a spa, wellness area or pool of their own, in a building of their own. Three of the thirteen properties we have reviewed in Copenhagen meet both halves. Hotel Sanders is the omission worth naming — it is the city's best-known small luxury hotel, and its own site names a kitchen, a cocktail bar and a courtyard but no spa, so the criterion leaves it out and the reputation does not put it back.
How we chose
Indre By
Its own site names a wellness area, the Michelin-starred Marchal, a champagne bar and a pastry shop, in a building it says has stood on Kongens Nytorv for over 270 years.
Vesterbro
The only rooftop pool among the reviewed set, with a wellness area beside it and its own bakery and courtyard bar, in a large building of its own beside the central station.
Indre By
366 rooms inside a warehouse from 1787, with a pool and relax area and its own restaurant. It clears the criterion on facilities and beats both of the others on the room it puts you in.