Does Hotel Sanders have a MICHELIN Key?

Yes. It received one Key in the 2025 Nordic selection, and the guide still lists it with one Key.

Who owns Hotel Sanders?

Alexander Kølpin, a Danish former ballet dancer, who also runs it.

Dogs up to 20 kg are accepted for a fee, except in single and double rooms. They must stay in the bedroom.

Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to Copenhagen?

Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to Copenhagen, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.

Four-star One MICHELIN Key Tordenskjoldsgade, Copenhagen

Hotel Sanders

Fifty-four rooms in two joined townhouses near Nyhavn, owned and run by a former ballet dancer, with a rooftop over the tiled roofs of the old town.

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MICHELIN: One Key
Rooms: 54
Opened: November 2017
From the airport: About 20 minutes by car, our estimate

The hotel

A dancer's hotel off Nyhavn.

Alexander Kølpin was a ballet dancer in Denmark before he went into hotels. In 2017 he took an 1869 building on Tordenskjoldsgade, two townhouses joined into one, and had the London studio Lind + Almond redesign it. In the 1970s and 1980s the site had been a meeting place for the city's cultural crowd.

Hotel Sanders opened in November 2017 with fifty-four rooms. The design mixes Parisian polish, English eccentricity and Danish restraint, with details taken from Kølpin's years on stage and on tour. Nyhavn and Amalienborg Palace are a short walk away, and the street itself is a calm side road in the old centre.

Sanders Rooftop A conservatory and terrace above the tiled roofs of the old town, used most in summer.
TATA A small cocktail bar with a vintage feel.
Coupé rooms Single rooms laid out like compartments on an old sleeper train, for one guest travelling alone.

Rooms & suites

From sleeper compartments to apartments.

Each of the fifty-four rooms is designed individually.

For one Coupé rooms Single rooms modelled on vintage sleeper trains.
Largest Sanders apartments Larger rooms with a fireplace.

Dining

Kitchen, bar, courtyard and roof.

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Sanders Kitchen Breakfast and dining Downstairs
TATA Cocktail Bar Cocktails A small bar with a vintage feel
Sanders Courtyard Drinks In the courtyard
Sanders Rooftop Drinks The conservatory on the roof

Recognition

In the guide.

One MICHELIN Key Nordic selection, 2025, still shown in the guide
Small Luxury Hotels of the World Member

Good to know

Before you go.

Arrival Check-in from 3 pm, check-out by noon.
Children Cots and extra beds on request; babysitting can be arranged.
Pets Dogs up to 20 kg, for a fee. They stay in the bedroom and are not allowed in single or double rooms.

Getting there

Flying to Copenhagen.

Copenhagen Airport is about 8 kilometres from the centre, roughly twenty minutes to the hotel by car by our estimate; the M2 metro from Terminal 3 reaches the centre in about fifteen minutes. Private jets use Roskilde, about thirty minutes from the centre by car.

Business & First Class Airline flights The M2 metro leaves every four to six minutes and reaches Nørreport in about fifteen; the train takes about the same to the Central Station. A taxi costs around 250 to 400 kroner. Request a fare Private Jet General aviation Private flights use Roskilde, about thirty minutes from the centre, which is open around the clock with no slots, no curfew and no night restrictions. Its handling was voted the best business airport in Europe, the Middle East and Africa by the readers of European Business Air News, and the FBO has a VIP lounge, a crew lounge and rest cabins. Request a jet

Approximate flying time by midsize jet to Copenhagen

Stockholm 1 h 05
London 1 h 35
Paris 1 h 40
Nice 2 h 10
Dubai 6 h 45 long-range jet

Questions

What guests ask first.

Does Hotel Sanders have a MICHELIN Key?: Yes. It received one Key in the 2025 Nordic selection, and the guide still lists it with one Key.
Who owns Hotel Sanders?: Alexander Kølpin, a Danish former ballet dancer, who also runs it.
Can we bring a dog?: Dogs up to 20 kg are accepted for a fee, except in single and double rooms. They must stay in the bedroom.
Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to Copenhagen?: Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to Copenhagen, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.

Also in Copenhagen

Other hotels worth the trip.

Five-star · Kongens Nytorv Hotel d'Angleterre On the square since the eighteenth century, the only hotel in Denmark with two MICHELIN Keys, with the starred Marchal, the Balthazar champagne bar and a pool in the spa.
Five-star · Tivoli Nimb Thirty-eight rooms and suites in a Moorish building with its own door into Tivoli, a brasserie on the ground floor and a pool on the roof.
Five-star · Centrum Nobis Hotel Copenhagen In the centre of the city, holding one Key since the first Nordic selection.
Four-star · Latin Quarter 1 Hotel Copenhagen Reclaimed wood and brick on Krystalgade, heated from the city's district network, with the PÆRE dining room and a Key two years running.
Five-star · Hellerup Park Lane Copenhagen North of the centre in Hellerup, one of the seven Key hotels of the capital.
Four-star · Christiansholm 25hours Hotel Paper Island A hundred and twenty-eight rooms on the island of Christiansholm, surrounded by harbour water, with Tiger Lily for Asian cooking.

Staying at Hotel Sanders?

Book the room, then the flight.

Rates and availability come from the hotel itself. For the journey to Copenhagen, a Business or First Class seat or an aircraft of your own: tell us the date and we come back with one final price, our margin included.

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