You get a towel and a lemonade when checking in. Cute. They try. Acqua di Parma products, a Sjöstrand espresso machine in your room, a few nice touches here and there.
Park Lane is a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World. But already from the first few minutes, it starts to feel like something is off. This feels like an old hotel, despite it being branded as a new hotel.
All the things are there, everything looks right, but the feeling is off.
Let us start with the worst part. The bathroom. It is an open bathroom to the room. A shower on one side, the toilet on the other—both behind see-through glass. The toilet has a door, sort of, but it does not go all the way up, so it feels more like a ferry loo than something you would expect in a luxury hotel. No privacy. No sound barrier. The toilet “door” is literally two steps from the bed.
Fine if you are travelling solo. Less fine as a pair. It is 2025, this should not still be a thing.
Then there is the bed. New hotel sometimes means hard mattresses. The bed was hard. Like you are floating on top of it. Maybe that works for some people. My back disagreed.
And the noise. It was a minibar, and luckily reception could turn it off. The fridge sounded like a tax-free shop at sea. The ventilation was not especially quiet either. Not terrible, just enough to remind you that you are not sleeping at home.
For once, a hotel website is honest. It says “air cooling system,” not AC. They are not pretending, like so many others in Sweden and Denmark do. But let us be honest: it is basically a fan in the wall. Moves some air. Does not cool much.
One night. Executive Studio. Listed at 54.5 m².
Felt smaller.
There was one bin in the whole room—next to the toilet.
I emailed them before our stay about the parking situation. Their website said there were options in the surrounding area and that tickets were available at reception. No reply.
Turns out there was free parking just behind the hotel. A quick reply would have done the trick.
The name Park Lane commits. Most people have heard the address in New York. It signals luxury.
Here, it is on Strandvejen in Hellerup. Think of it as one of Copenhagen’s poshest suburbs. Big flashy villas. One with a bright pink door just opposite the hotel. Some Ferraris driving by.
So yes, it wants to be a luxury hotel just outside Copenhagen.
But no matter how much you dress it up, you cannot turn it into something it is not. You can put lipstick on it—but it still feels like an old hotel underneath.
Not for us. The bathroom alone is enough to keep us from coming back.
And the price? Do not get us started. It is simply too expensive for what you get.
Right now, there are two luxury hotels in Copenhagen: Nimb and d’Angleterre.
The field is wide open for Rosewood, Four Seasons, and the other dragons to take over.
Park Lane is not that.
It is 8–9 km into town by taxi. Go there. It is worth the ride.
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