Continuing our series on the world's hippest hotels and the stars who frequent them, Sarah Turner checks in to the Nimb, Copenhagen.
STAR QUALITY: Actress Scarlett Johansson.
VITAL STATISTICS: An architectural concoction in the heart of Copenhagen, the Nimb - with its kitsch Arabic arches - has a fairytale quality. All 13 bedrooms are filled with a mixture of Danish antiques and design statements such as Bang & Olufsen televisions. The result is seriously stylish but lightened by log fires and luxurious bathrooms.
Arabian night: The hotel, a favourite of Scarlett Johansson, is lit up after dusk
In the basement there's the Vinotek, a wine bar set in vaulted cellars, while on the ground floor the Restaurant Nimb is a relaxed - if pricey - place to eat where chefs come to cook around the guests.
Just to be a little different, the Nimb is one of the few hotels in the world - especially in a city - to have its own dairy. Cheese and yogurt are made daily in a glass-walled room.
Danish connection: Scarlett Johansson uses the hotel when she visits family
Each night, as dusk descends, the gardens are lit by 100,000 light bulbs and Tivoli becomes an otherworldly experience: it is soon clear why Michael Jackson is rumoured to have wanted to buy it in the Nineties.
The Nimb is the only hotel to be part of Tivoli; all but one of the rooms overlook the gardens. Guests gaze on to a pagoda and trees hung with thousands of lights.
When Tivoli is open in the summer (from April to October), there are concerts in the Chinese-style Peacock Theatre. The gardens reopen every winter for a Christmas market with traditional Danish food and mulled wine.
KEY ATTRACTION: Some hotels work best as theatre and the Nimb is pure Judy Garland: a small hotel that is larger than life.
The vast bar on the first floor is decorated with oversized sofas and a baronial-style fireplace in proportions that would make John Cleese feel like a Borrower.
From the outside, the Nimb glows with thousands of tiny lights. This is a hotel that knows it's a star.
IN THE NEWS: Scarlett Johansson, whose father is Danish, uses the hotel as a base when she visits her family.
GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE REST OF US? Rates fall when Tivoli is closed, but to come here when the gardens are shut is to miss part of the magic. A room with a view is going to cost a minimum of 3,900 Danish kroner (£470), 4,900 kroner (£590) when the gardens are open.
