View from the Room: Anderson Hotel, Copenhagen
The Anderson hotel is conveniently located in Vesterbro just a few minutes walk from the train station. Clearly, the neighbourhood is on the up. Who cares about passing a couple of strip joints when we can jump on a train in Hamburg, and land in our Denmark hotel so easily.
Very much a boutique hotel, the Anderson’s designer had lots of fun with hot pink and dark green. Best of all are the huge teddy bears in the lobby. Although they did come with a sad story of the sadly demised third bear thanks to some high spirited Swedes.
The room itself is tightly packed with a good bed - well two singles stuck together with individual duvets.
There’s a compact desk and chair plus two accent chairs and a coffee table by the window, which opens. The room affords one bedside table, the other side had the power socket and the TV is attached to the opposite wall.
I love the pull switch on the bedside lights and the additional hotel-standard reading lights. The fold-out luggage rack is attached to the wall but only accessible by moving a chair. Still, it’s good for airing clothes.
Storage
The double wardrobe has plenty of shelving but this is another hotel with no drawers. I always wonder:
a. where people put their smalls and
b. why is it so hard to add a couple of drawers where the shelves are?
It’s OK for 2 or 3 nights, not so good for a week.
I do love the perfectly placed large and small coat hooks on the wall behind the front door.
Bathroom
How lovely to see full-sized Molton Brown toiletries in the bathroom - a brand I haven’t used in ages. It was all the rage in the 90s. I’m grateful for the handheld shower over the bath.
Amenities
Hairdryer attached to bathroom wall
Tissues
Sockets
Fridge and safe in a cupboard
Full-length mirror
Spare pillow
Food & drink
Great buffet breakfast served in the lush green and pink lobby
And water dispenser and coffee machine in the lobby are accessible anytime
Pod coffee machine in room so just the small espresso cups, no mugs. Although I realised I can sneak some up from the coffee machine in the lobby.
Gorgeous heavy crystal tumblers. Plus 2 wine glasses.
A packet of welcoming chocolates in the room
There’s even a happy hour when you have a choice of a glass of wine. I partook in this once, a big (for me) glass of red wine at 5pm just put me to sleep! A wonderful gesture though which bought the residents of the hotel together.
Each landing had a jar of complimentary sweet treats which seemed to be an encouragement for using the stairs. It worked, there’s only one tiny old school lift, one where you have to open the door to go in.
For some reason, this hotel is curiously full of British accents, not something I look for when travelling around the world.
The service at the Anderson was a delight throughout, even though we felt we got a ticking off for wearing masks when we walked in. We had come from Germany where mask-wearing had been heightened, to Denmark where there were barely any to be seen. Everyone was friendly though, from the housekeeping staff we bumped into on the landing to the British bar attendant getting some international work experience.
I’d stay here again.
March 2022
