Copenhagen Downtown hostel

100% smile gaurantee? Yes please! Thankfully This place lives up to their promises and on both occasions I left smiling and happy with my stay.
On both stays there was a definite party down stairs vibe happening but 100% business of the sleeping variety happening upstairs. I was super impressed with how quiet the rooms are despite the concerts and party people.
The rooms are clean and come with basic linen. To help keep costs down your asked to remove linen and place in a communal laundry basket on departure.
The venue has an affordable bar, a kitchen and an amazing reading mass cuddle puddle couch! Winning! Not to mention the usual free wifi, one of the best hostel laundries I’ve ever used and a free communal dinner every night. Which I missed all nights!
Toilets and showers are regularly checked for cleanliness. The staff are a wealth of local knowledge and helpfulness.

Friendly staff, cute bar/​restaurant area, breakfast is not included but only 50 DK (as of ⁷⁄₂₀₁₅), clean and feels safe!

Almost too big to foster a welcoming social atmosphere, but very nice staff and cool décor.

Really good hostel, nice staff, good atmosphere! Catharina and Rosanne (staff) helped us very much! Close to the station, close to city center, overall a very good location.
It’s not the cheapest, but you’ll really enjoy your stay here. Happy traveling!

I am writing this review as I’m eating their breakfast at 7am.
Overall, I had a positive experience staying here. To provide background, I came to Copenhagen by myself en route to Hamburg and decided to stay here for three days/​two nights. I arrived on Christmas Day and was surprised at how lively and friendly the staff was. One of the staff members was very accommodating, offering to move my original bed assignment to ensure that I would have a locker available within the same room.
The crowd was primarily young twenty-​somethings who had just finished their study abroad programs in Europe, but there was also a few families staying too. I opted to stay in a 10-​person dorm, which is ideal if you’re a single traveler who wants to meet new people. I met two fellow Americans, two Australians, and a Chinese national — with whom I played cards, drank, and had a Christmas dinner. :)
In terms of the lodging, my bed was neatly made with clean sheets. As mentioned, there are small lockers in the room that are available for free upon request — definitely worth it if you’re weary of having your valuables stolen. People will be coming in and out throughout the day and less so at night, but people were respectful for the most part (using their phones as flashlights rather than turning on the bright bedroom lights and not speaking or whispering if others were sleeping). You could hear some noise from the reception room next door, but it’s completely tolerable if you’re used to living in a big city. Bathrooms were a bit questionable (toilets didn’t flush properly, floors were wet from the showers, hair sprawled on the floor), but the cleaning staff came every few hours to spruce it up.
I really want to point out their reception room, which had a modern bohemian feel with community-​style wooden tables and chairs and a large loft bed on the stage for people to lounge around. They also provide free dinner every night (potatoes, pork roast, gravy, pickled cabbage, and almond rice pudding). Breakfast costs 65 DKK, which is an all-​you-​can-​eat assortment of dried meats, cheese, eggs, bread, and OJ/​coffee. Totally worth it considering that a chicken salad sandwich from 7-​Eleven in Copenhagen is around 40 DKK.
I would recommend this place if:
— You are looking for affordable accommodation
— You want to meet new people easily
— You don’t mind sharing sleeping quarters and tolerating some noise at night
— You want to be within walking distance to the tourist spots like Tivoli Gardens, Nyhavn, and Stroget

Cheap place to stay in Copenhagen, which is a ridiculously expensive city. That being said, I’m not sure I’d be able to swing staying in a hostel again… but it really was fine for the situation.
Pros:
Excellent wifi throughout
Nice bar/​café full of young, friendly people open very late, with beanbags on the sidewalk for sipping your beer while smoking a cigarette
Great food, cheaper than most other places (breakfast is forgettable, though)
Luggage storage
Beds are comfortable
Good location — close to downtown, plenty of cafes & shopping, a lot of public transport nearby
Friendly, laid back, helpful staff
Free Earplugs! (because of the noise)
Cons:
Shared bathrooms were disgustingly dirty
Noise level. nonstop noise until 3am most nights and once again at 7/​8am most mornings. I mean, I live in Cairo… the city that never sleeps… and this was too noisy for me.
Breakfast wasn’t included– at 65 kroner it didn’t seem worthwhile. Runny scrambled eggs, bread, lunch meat, cheese, yogurt, fruit, granola, coffee & juice.
The hostel seemed to be overtaken primarily by male teenage boys (despite reviews that said the contrary, but it could have just been timing!)
Overall, it was fine, and best of all, it was cheap.

Perfect location and good value for Copenhagen. The city is super expensive and if you are a budget traveler or just don’t want to spend a ton then this is the place to stay. Staff is helpful, nice and always available. There is a cheap, for the city, bar in the hostel and there are always people to talk to in the common room. One of the best parts of my stay here was the free dinners I got. Every night there are ¾ tables where the hostel serves a free dinner, first come first serve. It’s nothing amazing, but good enough and it’s free so you can’t complain. There is free wifi, washer/​dryer available, ipod rentals, bike rentals and a free tour. There isn’t too much to complain about here. The only reason I put it one star down is because it was a little expensive for a dorm room shared with 7 other people, but that might just be the city.

Great value for the money. The rooms were clean and cozy. There were storage bins for your things and a few hooks for hanging coats.
Bike rentals right at the counter! They have a little food/​drink snack bar which is nice. WiFi was excellent. Late check out of 1pm will cost you 100Kr.
I slept comfortably and there we no disruptive partying.
The staff was somewhat knowledgable. I felt they should have known more specifics about their services but over all friendly. The guests range from young Euro/​American travelers, to families, to older travelers. A good mix. You won’t feel out of place. I would definitely stay there again.

A typical hopping hostel in terms of comfort and facilities. I arrived super late with some difficulties because I didn’t want to withdraw any kroner and the stupid metro machines only take chip and pin credit cards. It was okay that I showed up at 10:00pm though!
I stepped in to find a pretty hopping lounge, with many young people chilling out at tables and drinking, or in the back lounge on their computers (there’s free wifi in the lounge). I threw my stuff in my room, got dressed, and was ready to party. But first, I hung out with a couple of other fellow travelers at the bar and had a couple of drinks. Most people were very friendly. I made friends with some Englishmen, and then ask for some recommendations on bars and EDM clubs downtown from the hostel employee. She pointed me towards Culture Box and off I went!
Warning: Using a credit card to pay your hostel bill will incur an extra 3% fee or so. It might have been 5%
I came back after Culture Box expecting to get some sleep, but instead there were 3 Moroccans hanging out with a pretty cute Estonian girl, err. not drinking. Seeing that I am young, adventurous, a drunkard, and maybe crazy, instead of going to sleep I stayed up with them. err. not drinking. Right.
Bed was fine. When you check out, you bring your linens down and dump em in a giant bin.
Pros: Clean, hopping social scene, free wifi in the lounge. Each room has security key cards, although there are no lockers. Not too far from the metro stop, only like 6 – 7 blocks or so.
Minus: Only two bathrooms per floor. During the rush hours it can take a while to get one to shower. They turn off wifi upstairs to encourage socializing, but when it’s late and the lounge is closed and you need to do work… well, you take your laptop and sit in the stairway by the lounge. Bathrooms are. not super clean but not super dirty either. Slippers recommended.
Also, it’s against their liquor license to allow outside alcohol to be consumed. I had a bottle of champagne that really wanted to be imbibed but nope!
(it may or may not have happened anyways, along with other fruit pop drinks with my roommates. I deny everything)

I had just flown on hellish flight from Dusseldorf, Germany, and was ecstatic about visiting Copenhagen. My decision to visit the city was completely random, but seemed like the most logical step forward in my journey.
Out of all the reviews I read on the Dan Hostel chain, I found this location to be the most suitable to my needs:
1) Social scene
2) Free Wi-​Fi
3) Price
4) Laundry
5) Security
At the time, I wasn’t big on booking reservations in advance, and was fortunate to find a bed in an 8 bedroom dorm. The dorms are standard — moderately comfortable beds with a matching set of lockers. Security didn’t seem much of an issue.
That weekend was particularly fun though. The Norway and Denmark futbol leagues were playing each other that weekend, so the city was mad with activity. The Dan has pool tables, a kitchen AND café, plus it was walking distance from just about anything anyone could need including the subway. I was particularly interested in attempting a visit to Russia on this trip, and the staff were extremely helpful in sorting out my way to the American and Russian embassies. (Coincidently, they are next door to each other and are both equally rude to civilians.)
There was a very diverse crowd of people staying at the Dan that weekend, and I remember making sooooo many great friends and connections to other countries along my travel route. I’m still in contact with a few of them surprisingly!
Yes, if I’m ever back in Copenhagen, I’ll come right back to the Dan Downtown. And I really hope that chance does return because that city was awesome!