The biggest budget hotel in Scandinavia opens July 1st

Press release
March 2009

July 1st will see the partial opening of the CABINN Metro, the largest hotel in Denmark. The hotel's striking design is by world renowned architect Daniel Libeskind and is set to make it a Copen-hagen landmark.

The dramatic new CABINN Metro will open on July 1st in the north-west corner of Copenhagen's fast-growing city quarter, Ørestad. The hotel is designed by the studio of Da-niel Libeskind, one of the world's most famous and respected architects, also responsible for the design of the new World Trade Centre site in New York. The hotel is destined to become one of the city's architectural landmarks in its own right, with its striking red gable and a blue and grey facade. It will initially open with 350 rooms with the rest of its 710 rooms coming on stream by 1st September 2009, making it the largest hotel in Den­mark. The hotel is extremely well located, roughly 4-5 km from Copenhagen Interna­tional Airport and the city centre in Ørestad, one of Europe's fastest growing urban developments. It is within walking distance of

Scandinavia's largest conference and exhibition venue, Bella Center, beside Scandinavia's largest shopping mall, Fields, and boasts excellent transport links, including an adjacent Metro station, mainline railway station and motorway to Sweden nearby.The hotel will be the seventh in the CABINN chain, offering a similar style of superb value, high quality but relatively no frillsservice as its other hotels across Den­mark. As well as the record breaking number of rooms, CABINN Metro will have a conference centre for up to 200 people, a breakfast restaurant for 150, free wireless Internet connection in all rooms and lobby, 24 hour reception, a lobby bar, business centre, and cafe. Meanwhile, a new golf course, the Royal Golf Centre's Open Course, will open on the other side of the road from CABINN Metro for the new season in 2009. CABINN is showing the way forward for future hotel development in Copenhagen as the first hotel with a strong international profile to open in Ørestad. There is no doubt about, what CABINN is of­fering in terms of its low overnight cost combined with this bold architecture will be a definite hit for tourists, business travellers and conference delegates, comments Lars Bernhard Jørgensen, Manag­ing Director of Wonderful Copen­hagen CVB.

Further information:
Director Niels Fennet, phone +45 40282539, Cab Inn Hotels

Press Coordinator, Carsten Arlund, phone +45 20751745, Ørestad Company I/S

Facts about Ørestad:
Just a kilometre from Copenhagen Town Hall Square, a new, 310-hectare city area-- Ørest - is taking shape. This previously undeveloped area of Copenhagen, which on one side lies close to the city centre and at its other side is just minutes from Copenhagen Airport, is currently the site of major building projects. But Ørestad is already the location for a number of companies, organisations and educational institutions such as: Scandinavia's biggest convention centre, the Bella Center, the shopping centre Field's Copenhagen, with retail outlets and leisure facilities, the pharmaceutical company Ferring, Copenhagen IT College, the Norwegian insurance company KLP and NCC Denmark's 5,000 sq m business park. Ørestad is also offering new residential houses, social service etc.

Facts about the architect, Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind is an international figure in architectural practice and urban design. He is well known for introducing a new critical discourse into architecture and for his multidisciplinary approach. Daniel Libeskind has designed the interior in the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen located in the Royal Library, but his practice extends from building major cultural and commercial institutions - including museums and concert halls - to convention centers, universities, housing, hotels, shopping centers and residential work. Daniel Liebeskind was born in post war Poland in 1946, and became an American citizen in 1965.