Rox Resort

Style

Bathing belle

Setting

Hop from Copenhagen

Embracing Køge Bay’s western edge — and just half an hour from Copenhagen — Rox Resort makes an idyllic escape from the capital’s sprawl. Elegantly designed interiors eschew Danish minimalism in favour of damask fabrics and whimsical furnishings, with private balcony panoramas spritzed with sea air. Globetrotting flavours fill menus at the restaurants, but Nordic roots return up on the rooftop, where a remedial trio of heated pools and a view-endowed sauna keep soothing Scandi rituals afloat.

Please note Don’t let our enticing gallery deceive you, these images for Rox Resort are in fact computer generated. Apologies, real-life photographs will be with us soon…

Facilities

Rooms

156, including eight suites.

Checkout

11am; check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More Details

Rates don’t include breakfast, but it’s available daily for around DKK175 each.

Also

Eight of the Deluxe Vista Retreat rooms have been adapted with sufficient space to accommodate wheelchair users. All of the hotel’s restaurants and bars are also accessible, with lifts between floors; but unfortunately, the swimming pools and spa aren't equipped with dedicated facilities for guests with limited mobility.

Fitness Center

Free Internet Access

Golf

Pool

On-Site Restaurant

Room Service

Spa

At the Hotel

Beach within reach, concierge, indoor and outdoor padel court, golf simulators, five-a-side football field, games room and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, climate control, minibar, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and bespoke bath products.

Our Favourite Rooms

Scandinavia's distinctly minimalist style meets short shrift in rooms here, where patterned upholstery and statement lighting stand out against a canvas of quieter colour palettes. For cinematic Køge Bay scenes, it has to be the Deluxe Vista Retreat; and if you’re staying as a collective, the Paramount Junior Suite and top-floor Signature Suite both sleep up to four.

Poolside

You'll find three year-round pools at Rox (open 8am to midnight), all spread across the rooftop, fringed with sunloungers and backdropped by far-reaching outlooks of Køge Bay. The terrace and ocean view pools are both outdoors so better suited to summer; though they are heated to lessen the bite of the Danish winter. The Pool Club’s quarters is also heated and better protected from the elements under its domed-glass ceiling, should you prefer a cosier post-swim set-up. Access to the Pool Club is charged, prices depend on the time and day.

Spa

Up on the rooftop, you’ll find the Pool Club’s adjoining spa with its spacious sauna — set to host traditional Nordic rituals — and two treatment rooms for shoulder-dropping massages and refreshing facials. There’s an indoor and outdoor gym, too, for those who’d rather detach with a circuit or two.

Packing Tips

A well-worn pair of Tretorn boots, as well as more stylish second-hand threads that’ll have you looking straight from Copenhagen’s streets — there’s a time and place for both at Rox.

Also

Rox Resort is the sister stay to its Scandi Smith-stablemates Ellery Beach House and Maryhill Estate.

Children

Welcome; there aren’t any facilities dedicated to kids, but most rooms can accommodate an extra bed, and the suites sleep up to four with two on a sofa-bed.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

Window-side or fire-warmed are always your best bets.

Dress Code

The Dumpling Bar is a laidback, come-as-you-are kind of place; but for evenings at Smith, you’ll need to bring out your finer ’fits. And for the speakeasy-style Birdcage Bar, anything feathered or fringed will fly.

Hotel Restaurant

With a name much to our approval, Smith is the flagship of Rox Resort’s two restaurants. At first, menus feel firmly rooted in traditional French flavours, with flame-grilled and glazed cuts deftly prepared in the restaruant’s on-site steakhouse. But look a little closer, and there’s a spicy Sichuan spin to each dish: the daily-changing butcher's choice is marinated in a fermented chili rub, for example. We’ve also heard they’ll be a fresh sushi bar, featuring nori-wrapped king crab and wagyu tataki, for those seeking something with a little more umami. Speaking of the fifth flavour, you’ll also find it packed into the doughy delights at the Dumpling Bar — a devoted-to-the-dish eatery set just behind the Pool Club.

Hotel Bar

There’s a distinct yesteryear glamour to Birdcage Bar, where mixologists are deftly devoted to their craft, and cocktails — both creative and classic — send senses fluttering with punchy flavours and picture-pretty garnishes. A further four bars have you covered for all occasions, too: the Pool Club Bar peddles post-dip pick me ups, the Fire Room pours nightcaps that warm from within, and the Terrace and Rooftop bars pair summer sips with sultry coastal scenes.

Last Orders

Smith serves breakfast from 7am–11am; lunch from noon–4.30pm and dinner between 4.45pm and 9.30pm. The Dumpling Bar is open noon till 10pm, and the Birdcage Bar’s hours are 11am–1am. All other bars close at midnight.

Room Service

Dishes can be delivered to your door at any hour.

Planes

Copenhagen’s international airport is around 30 minutes away by car; staff can arrange private four-person transfers for DKK2,000 each way.

Trains

Køge Station is a five-minute drive from the hotel, and sits along the high-speed line that connects Copenhagen to Ringsted. Alongside direct routes into the city centre, there are also frequent links to Roskilde and Næstved.

Automobiles

Having a car will prove useful along this serene stretch of Danish coastline, and there’s free private parking at the hotel.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

You’re only half an hour from Copenhagen’s urban heart, but Rox Resort brings Denmark’s more pastoral pursuits within easy reach, too. An in-the-know concierge team means itineraries will be tailored to you: outdoorsy types can expect surfing and stand-up paddleboarding in Køge Bay’s cool blue waters, fishing in its abutting streams, or hiking and biking around its scenic shores. There’s a duo of padel courts back at base, as well as a five-a-side football field and golf simulators, should you fancy mastering your swing.

Every Wednesday and Saturday, Køge’s colourful streets fill with all-sorts-of vendors for artisanal markets that are well worth a wander. And on days where the locals’ bartering hum is absent, roam around its independently owned galleries, such as the Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Galleri Nørregade and Galleri Wenneberg.

Earn or Redeem Points with World of Hyatt

This Mr & Mrs Smith hotel participates in the World of Hyatt loyalty program. As a member, you can earn and redeem points and enjoy exclusive benefits for qualifying nights. .