To celebrate our 50th anniversary, my husband &amp; I are taking our four kids and four grandchildren (ages 8 to 15) to Copenhagen for a week in June. We'll need 6-7 rooms and would like to pay in the neighborhood of $100 per room per night. Of course I'll try to negotiate a group rate. We'd like to be in the center of town &amp; would prefer a small hotel. I'm looking into the Danmark (because of other posts on this site) and the Sct Thomas. Any other recommendations would be welcome! <BR>

The Danmark is good with a good location. I have stayed there many times, but have stayed at the Palace on our last three trips. The location is even better. Do a search for Palace+Copenhagen. Sometimes they have good sale prices. Boots

Shan, My wife and I stayed at the Hotel Danmark last year for 4 nights and loved it. It was a little quirky (small elevator - our small bathroom that turned into a shower, etc.) but the location is great - by Central Station,Tivoli, Stroget, Carlsberg, etc. They have a lovely breakfast buffet with good music. We loved a cafe close by called the Copenhagen Corner that always had a reasonable daily special that included a glass of wine. We loved Copenhagen and would go back in a flash. People are wonderful to a fault, english is widely spoken, the transportaion system is friendly. I could go on and on. Prices might be slightly higher than $100 in June, but they have a web special - I think.<BR>E-mail me if I can help out.

Your grandchildren may like the Cab Inn. It has small rooms with bunk beds. I think the top bunk folds down like a train. The hotel is modern, not shabby. For Copenhagen, it is cheap. Try the search engines to find their website. I think there is another nearby hotel run by the same management called Hotel Scandinavian or something like that. Both are located near the center of the city, just across the river.

Definitely check out the Cab-Inn. Both on the same street, a couple of blocks apart. Cab-Inn Copenhagen and Cab-inn Scandinavia. Both about a 10-minute walk from city center. My kids LOVED the Cab-Inn and you can't beat the price for a room for 4. You could get by with one room for the grandkids and they'll have a ball. En suite bathroom where the shower turns on from the sink, and cute little table and chairs that all fold up against the wall. Search &quot;Cab-Inn&quot; and you will find their website. The Danmark is a great hotel too. I stayed there with my mother the year after I took the kids there. If you want more info on Copenhagen with kids, e-mail me. I took three, ages 9, 11, and 14 there 4 years ago.

My family and I just returned from a visit to Copenhagen. We stayed 45 minutes outside town (by car)on a great little farm. For less than $85 per night we had a two story apartment with kitchen, 3 bedrooms (8 beds), dining area and TV area. There is another apartment that accomodates 4 more people. The proprietors were very nice yet left us on our own. <BR><BR> The farm is located west of Copenhagen and is a short drive to the Viking museum and Domkirche in Roskilde. There are huge fields to walk and a fjord behind the farmhouse. The next town is Frederikssund where you'll find lots of restaurants ranging from McDonald's to pizza joints to Kros (Danish inns) to fish houses to gourmet restaurants.<BR><BR>You might feel the 45 minute drive to Copenhagen is too much, but there is much to see outside town, not to mention the peace and quiet. We found it very relaxing to return back to our apartment after a vigorous day of sightseeing. There is also train service from Frederikssund to Copenhagen.<BR><BR>We chose this place because we were unable to find reasonably priced (under $100) per night accomodations in Copenhagen.

When in Copenhagen last - long time ago- the tourist board recommended going to &quot;useit&quot; - accommodation service more for young- after telling me that the &quot;cheap &quot; hotels in Copenhagen were all a rip off. We ended up with a room in an apartment and the people left for the weekend - so all to ourselves for literally 20% of the price of the cheapest (diabolical) hotel - recommended in Fodors book! GBP40 per night 15 years ago for dormitory style bathroom facilities, yuk!. I know this may not help in your circumstances- but they do have a web site (just checked) and they offer a variety of accommodation offers. So you never know if you explore the option, perhaps you get a cheaper house or two for everyone. Doug's suggestion also sounds very good alternative.

Shan, the Hotel Danmark might not be a great place for kids if they tend to be high strung (like my kids). They might find the hotel a little small and reserved.

Shan - I would seriously consider renting an apartment for the week. A listing of apartments and flats is available at &quot;visitcopenhagen.dk&quot; - click on &quot;travel planning&quot; then &quot;accomodations&quot; then apartments. An agency called Q-Management states it has over 300 properties for short term rentals - worth a try!

You might check into the Danish hostels - called Danhostels. They cater to families. The one in Helsingor (Elsinore) is a former baron's home, with small cabins for families. Prices are realistic; a good breakfast is usually included (or cheap), and there are games and playgrounds for kids - and other kids, which might be a plus. If there's one near Copenhagen, it might be worth a try.

The Danhostel in Copenhagen is out near the airport. Not very convenient to anything unless you have a car, and driving and parking in Copenhagen are a pain. There is a bus between the hostel and city center but it takes awhile to get there. Also, the hostel is not historic, quaint, or scenic. It is very basic and was crowded when we were there. Rooms were clean and bathrooms were about on a par with what you would find in an American KOA campground. we stayed one night there when we landed before we took off on our Danish roadtrip, which ended in Copenhagen, where we ditched the car and stayed at the Cab-Inn. i believe www.danhostel.dk is the website for the hostels, or do a search for danhostel.

Your best bet is the Admiral Hotel, but I don't think you will be able to do it for $100. Seriously consider spending more as Copenhagen is relatively expensive and your nice vacation may be compromised by a really bad room. The Admiral is near the harbor, has a lot of character and is very nice. Stay away from First Hotel Vesterbro -- noisy, overpriced and very mediocre.

I'm pretty snooty when it comes to hotels and I tried to find an acceptable (by my standards) hotel near the center of the city without luck. $100 per night in downtown Copenhagen doesn't get you very much and the web sites for Ibsens, City, Danmark, Absolon, and Esplanaden made the hotels look far more appealing than they turned out to be.<BR><BR>I would try the Kong Frederick -- which is actually closer to $160 / night -- and see if they will cut you a deal on 7 rooms. It's centrally located, well appointed, with a friendly staff and a dark wood, Old English feel.<BR><BR>Have fun.

Just curious Snoopy, in what way were you disappointed with the Danmark? The location can't be beat and our room was exactly as represented on the website. You really ARE snooty about hotel rooms, aren't you? (Hey, you said it, i didn't)

Fair question.<BR><BR>My company booked me in the Danmark on my first business trip to Copenhagen in Jan. 1994 (pre-website advertising). The bed in my room (see: http://www.hotel-danmark.dk/default.asp?lan=UK then navigate to Standard Room) looked identical to the one in this picture, complete with the trough in the mattress that made it more like a hammock. AND they wanted $115 plus 25% tax for the room. They wouldn't lower the rate even though I was planning on staying for 6 weeks.<BR><BR>The next day, a Saturday, I walked around the area and talked to the manager at the Kong Frederick where they offered me a nicer, larger room for $80 / night considering the length of my stay. I then checked the SAS Scandinavia, about a mile south of town, because I'd stayed there in the early 70's, and they offered me a room for $108/night including tax and breakfast which was about 1/3 of the going rate for a room there. Plus they gave me free admittance for the length of my stay at the casino . . . The European Ice Skating Championships were being held in Copenhagen that year and the SAS Scandinavia was full, so I couldn't check in until the 18th of Jan.<BR><BR>The Danmark, on the other hand, claimed that I had made my reservation beginning the 14th not the 15th of January, and tried to charge me for an extra day. The desk clerk said very condescendingly, &quot;that's a typical mistake that Americans make, they forget there's a time change . . . &quot;<BR><BR>Granted, that was almost 9 years ago, but it left a bad taste in my mouth for the Danmark. And, yes, I am snooty about hotel rooms.

Oh, and my crack about the websites is that you cannot see how small the rooms really are from the photos on the web site for any of the hotels I mentioned.<BR><BR>I suppose they are plenty roomy for a slightly built family . . . as long as they are standing up and holding their arms over their heads and don't have any luggage.<BR><BR>Sorry, I got carried away. I am 6'3&quot; and weigh close to 240 pounds and I like a larger room than is typically available in a mid-rate European hotel.