Green hotels

Many hotels in Copenhagen meet climate-friendly requirements in the areas of water, washing and cleaning, waste, energy, food, smoking and indoor climate, administration, associated park and parking areas. Here is a selection. 

Hotel Alexandra  

Hotel Alexandra close to the City Hall Square also has a friendly attitude towards the environment. The hotel is known for its use of second hand furniture, mainly classics designed by Arne Jacobsen, Nanna Dietzel and Hans J. Wegner. The hotel has been awarded The Green Key as well.

There are three non smoking floors and one floor, which is 100 percent allergy proof. The hotel breakfast buffet gives you a choice between purely organic and traditional.

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Arp-Hansen Hotels

Arp-Hansen Hotel Group's nine hotels are all certified Green Key hotels. Their environmental policy is to maintain and develop reduction of the hotels' waste and pollution as well as reduction of their energy and water consumption.

In addition, they use products which has a low impact on the environment. The hotels are individual and diverse, but all located on the best corners of Copenhagen.

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Brøchner Hotels

Brøchner Hotels in Copenhagen became a CO2 neutral hotel chain in April 2008. The hotel chain, which includes Hotel Kong Arthur, Hotel Fox, Ibsens Hotel and Hotel Danmark, has commited to buying carbon credits equivalent to their collective emissions every year from this point forward.

As another innovation, Brøchner Hotels now offers guests special CO2 accommodations, whereby the room's traditional bottle of champagne is exchanged with a carbon credit of one tonne of CO2, which is subsequently delisted.

In 2009 the hotel chain took a step further and launched the Buddy car. The cars use electricity instead of gas and can be used by both staff and rented out to hotel guests. They have a top speed of 75 kilometers per hour and can travel up to 60 kilometers on one charge.

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Choice Hotels

Choice Hotels is another environmentally friendly hotel chain. All hotels are operated by 100 percent hydroelectric energy, and First Hotels is ISO 14 001 certified. Choice Hotels' environmental concept is called WeCare and is described in all rooms. Besides energy, Choice also serves an organic breakfast. The hotel chain has 11 hotels in Copenhagen, better known as Comfort, Clarion and Quality Hotels. 

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Hotel Copenhagen  

Hotel Copenhagen is a Green Key Hotel as well. The hotel has a central location and offers simple accommodation at affordable prices.

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Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers  

The four star Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers is built to be one of the World's greenest hotels. It has Denmark's only CO2 neutral hotel building and meets EU requirements for green construction and all of the hotel's energy consumption comes from renewable energy sources.

All sunny surfaces are coated with high-tech solar panels, and the whole building will be cooled and heated by Denmark's first ground-based cooling and heating system. Even the usual bathroom amenities in plastic have been replaced with products made of bio-degradable starch.

The Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers is certified under the international Green Key. The hotel's CO2 neutral technologies include an advanced climate system, which uses groundwater for cooling during Summer and stores the heated water and recycles it to heat in Winter.

The result is a reduction of energy consumption for cooling and heating by nearly 90 percent. Crowne Plaza is 85 metres high, has 366 rooms and is located in Copenhagen's new district Ørestad.

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Hotel Guldsmeden

The three Guldsmeden hotels: AXEL Hotel Guldsmeden, Betrams Hotel Guldsmeden and Carlton Hotel Guldsmeden are all situated in the trendy district of Vesterbro and this small chain of hotels sets a high standard when it comes to sustainablity and eccology.

The breakfast buffet is 100 percent organic with homemade yogurt, French cheeses and rustic bread and pastry from Emmery's. Apart from Emmery's, Solhjulet, Hanegal and Urtegaarden (all of them known for their organic products) cater to the hotel with fresh supplies.

The hotels furthermore have organic beauty products such as shampoo, body lotion and soap especially made for their rooms.

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Radisson SAS Hotels

Three of Radisson SAS' four hotels in Copenhagen have the Scandinavian ecolabel The Swan - a counterpart to the European ecolabel The Flower. The hotels have committed to reduce the negative impact their operations have on the environment by controlling energy and water consumption, as well as waste generation.

As a guest you also have the possibility of donating your loyalty points to buying carbon credits and thus making your hotel stay CO2 neutral. The three hotels are Radisson SAS Royal, Scandinavia and Falconer Hotel. 

Scandic Hotels

Scandinavia's largest chain of hotels can boast a thoroughly radical environmental policy, which, among other things, means that all the 19 Danish hotels are certified with the Scandinavian ecolabel The Swan.

The chain has furthermore recently commited itself to reduce its CO2 emission from its hotels by 100 percent, which means that the emission in 2025 will be completely obliterated. Guests are offered organic coffee and breakfast in all the hotels in Denmark. The rooms are also sustainable because the materials used all have been chosen for their respect for the environment.

In November 2009 Scandic launched a climate menu as another step towards becoming completely CO2 neutral in 2025. Approximately 30 percent of the world's CO2 emission comes from food and beverage. So far the climate menu is served á la carte in the restaurants at Scandic Palace Hotel, Scandic Copenhagen, Scandic Front, Scandic Sydhavnen and Scandic Glostrup.

The menu primarilly consists of vegetarian dishes with ingredients like cabbage, beetroot, carrots, potatoes and tomatoes, making delicious salads and soups. But you can also order chicken and salmon as well as fruit for dessert.

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Skodsborg Kurhotel and Spa

Skodsborg Kurhotel and Spa is a modern hotel, restaurant, health and conference centre situated in beautiful scenic surroundings on the coast, just a 20-minute drive north from Copenhagen. The hotel is a certified Green Key Hotel as well as a member of the International Spa Association.

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Nordic ecolabel The Swan

Ecolabel Denmark

EU ecolabel The Flower

The Green Key

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