Inflight Magazine of Brussels Airlines

In Bed

We seek out where to sleep in style on the Brussels Airlines network. This month: Berlin and Copenhagen

The Nimb

COPENHAGEN
5 Bernstorffsgade, tel. , www.nimb.dk

After a few hours spent walking around the Danish capital – now home to the ‘World’s Best Restaurant’, Noma – you may find yourself in as much slack-jawed wonder at the beauty of the strapping, Viking-like men and fashionable women as the place itself. This is also a city packed with interesting architecture and design, so when The Nimb hotel opened, it had a lot to live up to on the looks front. Two years on, it’s still the most beautiful place to stay in Copenhagen.

This charming hotel inside the world-famous Tivoli Gardens has 13 home-away-from-home rooms, all individually decorated with antique furniture, four-poster beds and cosy fireplaces – which means it can accurately define itself as ‘boutique’. The breakfasts feature dairy products from Nimb’s own dairy, while downstairs there’s a Michelin-starred restaurant, Herman, and a more affordable brasserie with a lovely terrace. The bar, meanwhile, attracts a well-heeled crowd of local talent, with chandeliers dating back to the hotel’s original opening in the 19th century.

The Nimb also makes a good base for soaking up some of that famous Danish design culture: drop into the Danish Design Centre’s 10+ Design Forecast exhibition (until 31 October), which offers a vision of design to come in the years ahead. The hotel sits just across the road from Copenhagen’s Central Station, too, so we strongly advise you jump aboard a train and shoot across the Öresund Bridge to Malmö in Sweden (25 minutes), where blonde beauties make the most of the white sandy beaches on those long summer evenings. Rooms from €335/DKK 2,500. Richard Bence

Soho House

BERLIN
1 Torstrasse, tel. , www.sohohouseberlin.com

Berlin’s Mitte district has long lacked a hotel to give visitors somewhere truly stylish to lay their heads after exploring the area’s many galleries, shops and restaurants. This changed in May, however, with the opening of the first European sibling of the Soho Houses in London and New York.

Occupying the former premises of the Communist Party archives, the straight-laced façade hides 40 rooms, two bars, a restaurant, rooftop pool, spa/gym and a private screening room. You can even play ping-pong in the lobby. Most importantly, this hotel strikes just the right balance between comfort and glamour, and with a remarkably affordable price-tag.

Rooms come in six sizes, from tiny to extra-large, but in fact all are quite generous and feature individual touches like record players, retro salvaged furniture and free-standing claw-foot baths. The huge beds are perfect for dozing in after a night of excess, while the rainfall showers come with an unprecedented selection of revitalising Cowshed products.

Like the others in the group, the house functions as a private club to local and international Soho House members, but all the facilities are available to guests for the duration of their stay. In just a few weeks, the Club Bar on the seventh floor has become ground zero for Mitte’s coolest, where latter-day Sally Bowleses and Helmut Newtons party with the stamina and style that Berlin’s famous for. Rooms from €95. Graham Addinall

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