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# Posted: 8 Aug 2007 14:02:40
Live in Copenhagen – stay at hotel in Malmö? Silly some might call it. 35 minutes by car from your house. Why not just sleep at home and visit over the day. Sure you can, but its something special with waking up in a strange city. Breath the morning air, spend the day in the city and fall asleep in it when darkness falls.
We stayed 2 nights and missed nothing. Yes, one thing. The car. Next time we will travel by train, only 35 minutes from Central Station in Copenhagen and the hotel is 200 m from the Malmö Central Station. It can’t be easier than that. Now we have to put lots of Swedish coins in the parking meters. All together for 1 day: 165 kr. So don’t bring the car.
The hotel is located in the heart of the city – close to everything you need, restaurants, museums and sights, just around the corner.
The thing that made us bring our car was an offer we found on the internet - Mayfair Hotel, a double room for 2 nights: 1560 Danish Kronors, including breakfast and round trip over the bridge!
The bridge fee itself is 470 kr. If you subtract that from the hotel cost you can stay at the hotel for 1090 kr, 2 people for 2 nights. At a most well design and nice hotel. Add to that that it’s filled with beautiful history and some time was spent wandering around the hotel; pictures in hallways and stairs, outside and inside, up and down.
Ulfeldt – the traitor
A pearl for people with history interest. You eat breakfast in the vaults that is from the 1300´s. It was called “The Tunnel” at that time and one time also the name of the hotel. The tunnel was in the renaissance era a used for storage area for the market place that was located on Adelgatan in front of the hotel.
The hotel has had Danish owners for the last 5 years. That is not the first time the house is in Danish hands. Maybe nothing to brag about, the previous Danish owner was a traitor. Corfitz Ulfeldt was his name, a Danish noble man, Christian IV right hand and married to his daughter Leonora Christina, she who wrote the famous “Jammersminde” when she was kept prison for 22 years in Blåtårn in Copenhagen. Ulfeltd was ambitious and an opportunist, rich, charming and very unreliable. It was him that sat on the Swedish side of the table in “The peace in Roskilde” in 1658 and voted for that Denmark should give up the Skåne, Halland and Blekinge region. As reward from the Swedish king Karl Gustav he received land and estates in Skåne. In Malmö, for example, the house that is now the hotel, is the place where he and Leonora arranged dinner and parties during the 3 years, until he once again got him self in trouble. But that is another, much sad, story that you can read about in a book that you as a Danish guest will receive upon check in.
Also documented in pictures in hallways and stairs, accompanied by a picture of Paul McCartney and George Harrison in the hotel bar in 1967 on their way from Copenhagen to an Indian guru that Harrison had located outside the city of Malmö.
Style and Service
The elegant hotel has received the price of the best hotel in Malmö 2003 and 2004. You will not faint when you see the hotel from the outside. An old building with a nice exterior.. Small streets outside so the view from the rooms are nothing special either.
It is the interior layout and style that gives it potential. Marble floors and nice wood. An elevator with brass bars and mirrors, like taken from an 1800´s century movie. A large bar decorated in Artdeco style in black, red and steals. The rooms you can choose from high ceiling room or the ones with wooden beams. One of the rooms has a large wooden wheel saved that was used when that part of the hotel was a storage area. Some rooms has a B&O TV and 2 telephones, one by the bed and one at the desk.
Some of the beds are adjustable and some of the bathrooms are renovated in 2003 in black and white, marble and steel. Swedes know how to do bathroom fixtures. Nothing bad about the hotel? The only thing would be that the kitchen does not make the best cup of coffee to another wise so very nice breakfast buffet. The restaurant is closed during the summer, but you can live with that. As mentioned before, there are plenty of restaurants just around the corner at the little square and the big square. The little square fills up just like Nyhavn just by mentioning the sun!
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