2 nights at Comfort Hotel Vesterbro Copenhagen for 20,000 points per night

Comfort Hotel Vesterbro Copenhagen was not my first choice for a hotel in the city. My preference in Copenhagen is to stay at Skt. Petri Hotel, Ascend Collection for 20,000 points per night. The location has direct access to Copenhagen Airport by Metro to Norreport Station, then about 300 meters walk to the hotel. For the first time since 2015 I was unable to book Skt. Petri using points when I checked 100 days out. The hotel showed ‘Sold Out’. The hotel never became available in my frequent rechecks.

Originally I planned to stay in Malmo, Sweden our first night at Clarion Collection Hotel Temperance for 8,000 points since last year Kelley had me go out and buy food as soon as we reached Skt. Petri hotel. We ate in the room and then she passed out and slept in bed all day on our first day in Copenhagen. That was a waste of our CityPass unlimited rides ticket for the first day.

I saw no reason to spend 20,000 points for Comfort Hotel Vesterbro Copenhagen since the extra cost to take the train to Malmo would be compensated with a free dinner at Clarion Collection Hotel Temperance.

I planned our second night to be Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers to fulfill my IHG Rewards Club Accelerate summer 2019 Points & Cash task for 30,000 points + $42 to buy 5,000 points. I was surprised to receive 4,500 bonus points within days of booking my one night stay for the Crowne Plaza. Especially since I ended up canceling the booking and got the 5,000 points back, along with the 4,500 points.

Anyway, when I told Kelley about staying the night in Malmo back in May, she was not thrilled about Malmo, Sweden, a place she has never been. I assured her she would like the Hotel Temperance dinner buffet and breakfast too.

“Malmo has a cute old town square with loads of cafes right around the corner from the Clarion. We can go out and drink a couple pints of beer on the square.

Then I tossed out the follow-up comment, “And hopefully we won’t get blown up!”

“What are you talking about? Why would you think we might get blown up?” Kelley asked.

“Malmo has gang problems with a lot of immigrants and apparently a lot of hand grenades left over from the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. They seem to have a lot of hand grenade bombings in the city.”

Now that I had put my foot in mouth, I decided to check the news to reassure Kelley that those were issues primarily affecting the outlying suburban communities of Malmo, not the city center and probably not too recently.

Police were alerted to the blast at the restaurant in the popular square Lilla torg just before 2am.” Lilla torg is the cute Old Town square around the corner from Clarion Collection Hotel Temperance. Kelley quipped, “No way you would ever be up at 2am, so I guess we will be safe. In all fairness to Malmo, I have walked miles around the city on several occasions with no issues or concern for safety. I find the city a pretty place to visit. Regardless, I decided to change our Copenhagen plans to two nights at Comfort Hotel Vesterbro Copenhagen for 20,000 points per night. Copenhagen Metro operates 24/7 and buying a CityPass transportation card has been my preferred way to get around the city the past couple of years. The CityPass card is valid for all Metro, bus and trains for airport and all Central Copenhagen Zones 1-4. Ticket kiosks at the airport just prior to entering the Metro sell CityPass tickets. The daily rate drops when you buy a CityPass for more consecutive days on longer stays. Scandinavia is a family friendly place and there are often family discount rates for tickets. An adult CityPass allows two children under 12 to accompany the adult free. I purchased two 48 hour CityPass tickets for 150 DKK/$22.60 each. The single ticket price to travel from Copenhagen Kastrup Airport to city center (3 zones) is 38 DKK. Single tickets within the city center (Zones 1-2) cost 24 DKK. As long as you take 3 or more rides on top of airport travel, then a CityPass is a good deal. We reached Comfort Hotel Vesterbro Copenhagen by riding the Metro from the airport to Norreport Station, then changing to an S-train to Vesterport Station one stop away. There was a few minutes of panic when the receptionist could not find my reservation. I knew the hotel was sold out. I had to find my reservation number on my laptop for the receptionist to locate my reservation. All turned out well. Comfort Vesterbro is a large hotel with 400 rooms and five floors. The hotel handled several bus tour groups during our stay. Last year I joked about having to walk through six hallway corridors after exiting the elevator to reach our interior courtyard facing  room. This time we were in room 491, one of the closest rooms to the elevator facing the street front of the hotel. One aspect of being in Copenhagen a few days after summer solstice is early morning daylight. I was not a fan of the wall decor. I liked the wall imagery better in last year’s room. The bathroom was a standard bathroom with a tub. Aside from being in the room to watch some Women’s World Cup soccer matches and sleep at night, we did not hang around the room much. Worthy of mention is there is no room refrigerator so we drank cans of beer, which were the only cold beers I found in neighborhood stores. A Lidl supermarket is next to the hotel. There are several grocery stores within 200 meters of the hotel including Netto. Copenhagen is expensive for dining. I tend to focus on grocery stores when visiting the city. I don’t recall eating any restaurant food during our two days in Copenhagen. We had a few beers in pubs at 30 or 40 DKK each. Breakfast buffet is included at the hotel. There was the usual selection of eggs, bacon and beans. There is no special order option for eggs that I saw. Plenty of fruits and breads and deli items for making sandwiches. All in all Comfort Hotel Vesterbro Copenhagen is one of the best deals for the city with hotel loyalty points when Skt. Petri Hotel is not available. The room is basic, but the location of the hotel in city center and the breakfast buffet make this a suitable hotel for a visit to Copenhagen. By all means grab Skt. Petri Hotel for 20,000 Choice Privileges points when you can for a more upscale hotel. Copenhagen is one of the most expensive hotel cities in the world. Choice Privileges points are the best deal I have found for Copenhagen over the past four years. I consider 20,000 points to be a $100 room night for me. Through Choice Privileges Points and Cash bookings this hotel can be booked for 6,000 points + $105. Skt. Petri Hotel, Ascend Collection Monday August 12- Wednesday August 14 = no reward nights and lowest rate for a Deluxe room is 3,480 DKK or $523. Last year the room rate was over $600 per night when I stayed in June 2018 at Skt. Petri for 20,000 points.

Source: Boardingarea.com

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