A 1909 Moorish-revival fairytale palace inside Tivoli Gardens — thirty-eight rooms, every one but a single suite facing the gardens, a heated rooftop pool, and the only hotel front door in Europe that opens directly onto an amusement park.
"The most consistently magical small luxury hotel in Northern Europe. The Tivoli context — Tycho Brahe's Planetarium across the lake, Pantomime Theatre in the evening, the lights from October to January — is genuinely incomparable. If you propose here, you have already pre-empted any other answer."
The Nimb building was completed in 1909 — a deliberately exotic Moorish-revival commission designed by Knud Arne Petersen for the brewer Louis Nimb, set inside Tivoli Gardens at a moment when the gardens were the largest single piece of urban entertainment infrastructure in Northern Europe. The white-and-cream façade, the onion domes, the crenellated rooflines, and the central courtyard arches were a piece of theatrical architecture from the start. The building functioned for nearly a century as a Tivoli landmark housing restaurants and event spaces; in 2008 the Nimb was reopened as a small luxury hotel under the ownership of the Tivoli A/S group itself, and underwent a substantial restoration in 2014–2015 that took it from twenty-four to thirty-eight rooms while preserving the building's distinctive period detail throughout.
The 38 rooms and suites are individually decorated — no two are the same — and run from 23 square metres in the smallest categories to 240 square metres in the named Andersen Suite at the building's south-western corner. Every room except one looks out onto Tivoli Gardens; most have views directly over the central lake or the Pantomime Theatre. Antiques (sourced individually for each room), Bang & Olufsen AV equipment, Apple TV, and large bathrooms with Amouage products are standard across the inventory. The Andersen Suite, the Lumbye Suite, the Tycho Brahe Suite, and the Hans Christian Andersen Suite are the named flagships; the suite category includes private terraces overlooking the gardens.
The food and beverage programme runs across multiple separate venues inside and adjacent to the hotel. The Nimb Brasserie is the all-day French-Nordic kitchen and the city's most consistent hotel brasserie. The Nimb Bar — the small marble-clad room beside the lobby — runs one of Copenhagen's better cocktail programmes. The Nimb Roof Top in the warmer months operates as the city's most photographed bar address, looking down across Tivoli's lake to the Concert Hall and Pantomime Theatre. The Tivoli Food Hall, attached to the property, is the city's largest serious gastronomic market. Dinner reservations at any of these venues are routinely available to in-house guests when the lobby waiting lists run thirty minutes deep.
The Nimb Wellness Centre includes treatment rooms with the Amouage product line, sauna and steam, and the rooftop heated outdoor pool — the only outdoor pool inside Tivoli Gardens, and the most cinematic single feature of any small Copenhagen hotel. Guests have private after-hours access to Tivoli during the gardens' open season (one of the rare guest-only privileges of staying inside a working amusement park). The hotel's seasonal programming runs from the Tivoli reopening in mid-April through to the Christmas season closing in early January; during the Halloween weeks (mid-October) and Christmas season (mid-November to early January), the Nimb is the most distinctively Danish hotel address on offer anywhere. By any honest measure, the Nimb is the most magical small luxury hotel in Scandinavia, and the romantic-occasion answer for couples who want a single decisive Northern European booking.
For Copenhagen honeymoons that want the romantic and the unmistakably Danish, Nimb is the answer. A garden-facing suite, a Brasserie booking, the rooftop pool in the evening, the after-hours access to the gardens once Tivoli closes for the public — these combine into the most considered honeymoon programming we have seen in any Northern European hotel. The Tivoli Christmas season (late November to early January) is the year's strongest single Danish honeymoon window. Mention what is being celebrated at booking.
For Copenhagen proposals, the Nimb is the most decisive single setting in the city. The rooftop terrace at sunset (May to September), the lake-side wooden bridge at the centre of Tivoli (after dark, year-round), the Pantomime Theatre during a Friday evening performance, and the rooftop pool itself with a private dinner setup — the concierge has staged each of these many times and can run any of them with twenty-four hours' notice. The combined Tivoli atmosphere makes the city's other proposal addresses harder to take seriously.
For an anniversary the Nimb runs at high intensity. The Andersen Suite for a milestone year, the Brasserie for a private long lunch, an evening at the Pantomime Theatre, and the kind of staffing-to-room-count ratio that a 38-key property can manage. The hotel's small scale means service recognition compounds — a third night here is meaningfully different from a first night.
Bernstorffsgade 5
1577 Copenhagen V
Denmark
København H (Central Station) two minutes' walk; CPH airport 13 minutes by metro M2
38 rooms & suites
Garden Rooms from €540/night
Suites from €1,200/night
Andersen Suite from €4,500/night
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Building 1909; opened as hotel 2008; restored 2015
Heated rooftop outdoor pool
Nimb Brasserie, Bar, Roof Top
Wellness centre & sauna
Inside Tivoli Gardens
Small Luxury Hotels of the World member
After-hours Tivoli access
From €540/night. Only 38 rooms — book six months ahead for the Christmas season (mid-November to early January) and four months ahead for any spring or autumn weekend.
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