Generator Copenhagen

I’ve stayed in other generator hostels and had mixed experiences, but the location in Copenhagen changed my opinion on the hostel chain. The common area is vast and the bar has fantastic drink specials (in terms of Scandinavian pricing). In fact, I met several groups of locals at the bar who come solely for the happy hour. Great place for solo travellers or groups.
The breakfast wasn’t worth the price though. Instead, go to the Aldi right around the corner and treat yourself to an unknown Danish treat or two.

Une auberge qui fait un peu usine et qui manqué finalement de charme.
C’est vrai que c’était pas cher, 25 € par personne et par nuit en s’y prenant à l’avance dans une chambre partagée de 6 ou 8 personnes. Les chambres sont totalement asceptisées à l’inverse de la grande salle à l’entrée où trôné le restaurant, une partie ordinateur, une partie hamac, billard et lounge. C’est sympa mais l’ambiance aurait pu être plus conviviale.
Seul le personnel était très cool !
Sinon, l’auberge est bien placée (juste à côté de la boîte Culture Box et du Coffee Shop Atelier September) et les lits étaient très confortables !
A mon avis, vous pouvez quand même trouver mieux.

Un Hostel casi perfecto.
Las habitaciones son más que aceptables, aunque los colchones no son del todo buenos al igual que las almohadas. Las zonas comunes son amplias, además poseen un campo de petanca !! Todo un lujo al igual que el bar y la zona chillout con hamacas y unos ventanales donde entra bastante luz.
Salvando por pequeños detalles, es un hostel muy aceptable y merece la pena dormir allí.

C’est possible de mettre un 6 sur 5? ;-)
Incroyable cette auberge de jeunesse! Et franchement, j’en ai vu beaucoup… mais c’est clairement une des meilleures si ce n’est la meilleure.
Je né sais pas si c’est un niveau commun à toutes les auberges «Generator Hostel» mais en tout cas celle-​ci est au top!
Sur plusieurs niveaux se répartissent les chambres. J’ai pris la chambre la plus basique (partagée, mixte, etc.) et c’est déjà très bien… Propreté, aussi bien des lits que des espaces communs (WC, douche, etc.) Super grands casiers roulants sous les lits avec possibilité de fermer à cléf (n’oubliez pas votre cadenas, sinon il faudra en acheter un à 30 couronnes. Pas cher à part ça pour le niveau du cadenas… Ultra-​strong. For a lifetime ;-)
Si vous voulez garder votre intimité, vous pourrez prendre une chambre seul ou à deux. Comme un hôtel en fait. D’habitude quand je vais dans une auberge, je prend rarement ces chambres seul ou à deux car c’est le prix d’une chambre d’hôtel donc autant avoir le confort d’un hôtel… Mais ici, bien que ce soit le prix d’une chambre d’hôtel aussi, je viendrai! Pourquoi? Pour tout ce qu’il y a EN DEHORS des chambre…
Le bar générator pour commencer… Il a une partie «coffee-​working-​table» (avec super wifi) mais aussi une partie «cocktails-​pre-​party-​time»… SUPER vaste et spacieux. L’espace est juste incroyable pour une auberge. Et quand on regarde au travers des grandes baies vitrées… La terrasse! Comme un rooftop! (sauf qu’on est pas très haut) Ils ont installés des petits sofa-​lounge par-​ci par-​là pour y siroter un cocktail, discuter… en été bien sûr!
Etant de passage maintenant (mi-​octobre) ce n’est plus trop possible mais en tout cas les fumeurs ont un bel espace à disposition lol…
Je veux revenir en été rien que pour les night terrace talks!
Pour finir, niveau service, c’est très sympathique aussi… On voit que c’est une chaîné et qu’on né manqué pas de clients; ça brasse. Mais c’est normal, le concept fonctionne, c’est mérité, et très bien géré!
Voilà le genre d’endroit que je vous recommande vivement vous l’aurez compris. Super bien centré qui plus est!

If I could give this place zero stars, I would. The people that work here are very rude and unaccommodating. They see guests as dollar signs only. They are also barely willing to help. It is also next to a very loud street (the loudest street in he city), so good luck getting any sleep. The rooms and facilities are also very dirty and I had bed bugs in my bed. I would NEVER recommend staying here. Ever

Nice terrace and good happy hour.
Good location and nice hostel filled with young and smiley people.
The not so great thing is that they barely play music in the bar (neither inside nor outside) …

Fantastic hostel in a great location in central Copenhagen. Very safe (key cards to get into your room/​take the elevator, under-​bed lockers as well as lockers on the main floor if you have too much luggage, although the lockers are really spacious). Clean, very helpful staff. I will definitely stay here if I come back to Copenhagen.

It was very difficult to find a reasonable priced place to stay so I’m glad my friend and Google pointed us to Generator.
The rooms are clean and the staff very friendly. The common spaces like the bar, eating area and living rooms are all very nice.
The location is also very good.
Great swing night too!
Only down side is the hire bikes, they are ok but they don’t seem to have a system to check if they work, so we had to change a few times until we got decent ones. Most had flat tyres, broken breaks, no lights, etc.
I’ll definitively come back here.

When it comes to traveling, I like to keep it low key. That’s why a hostel’s not really the number one option for me. I like my space and I like freedom to do whatever I fancy but let me tell you, this place is A OK.
The rooms were clean and warm which is quite important when traveling to Kobenhavn in the middle of January. The staff was great, especially joe — great dude!
My favorite thing was definitely the photo booth in the back by the bar.
The place was cheap enough (about 30 bucks a night) and it was a perfect location in the middle of the city.
I wish I had gotten the chance to eat at the hostel restaurant but I did have a drink or two at the bar.
Overall, good experience in this modern, warm, and welcoming space.

Loved this place! Warm, friendly, fun and so much help. Easiest way to connect right into the city. They have bikes for rent, wifi throughout, a fantastic café (one of the few places I could get a mocha) and great lounge areas. Don’t forget the pentaque (bocci ball) bar! So fun!!!
Seriously, it’s near everything, so cozy and the staff was ridiculously helpful. I really loved being there.

My rating is about visiting for drinks rather than staying the night. (Sadly I stayed in a different, rubbish hotel)
I have been to loads of hostels in various counties over the years and this one is certainly up there as a one of the best in terms of the bar area. For a start it’s bloody massive with loads of different areas to sit in and also hideaway in if you want.
When we were the there was lots of groups sitting around drinking beers and generally chilling out in the cool modern looking space. Beer wise I got a lovely bottle of Jackhammer IPA.
My only complaint was they seemed to have Usher on repeat on the sound system! Arrrrgggghhhh — I’m sure that does not last for ever though.
Cool place for a beer in a smart, hype and modern atmosphere.

The Generator Copenhagen is in a great location right in the center of town. The place is huge and is very clean and well equipped. The bar area is pretty cool and had a relaxed vibe. The food was reasonably priced but the quality wasn’t great. However, the dorm room I was in was absolutely roasting, it was like sleeping in a sauna. It was also incredibly noisy at night, it felt like the nightclub down the road was in my room.

This is a hostel, so I will rate it as a hostel. Some are afraid of hostels and they should not be. A modern hostel is like a hotel without all the comforts. They can be the sleeping barrack that you share with others, while I prefer the single or double room that are like a hotel room without excess of space or television or phone or anything else but a bathroom and a bed — this forces you out of your temporary lair and IS a good thing. because who want to spend precious vacation days in a room?
Generator is a good example of a modern hostel and has a big common area with a bar. The bartenders doesn’t know anything — but this is not a high end bar, more like a fraternity living room with strangers. Everyone is a stranger, and that is pretty cool too. At night the whole place turns into some kind of ad hoc lounge. Where vagabonds and strangers congregate and share life stories and body fluids.
My transaction with Generator was a breeze. I will stay here again if the occasion calls for it.

I traveled with a bunch of guys for a bachelor party and we didn’t stay in our rooms that much; GC is clean and relatively cheap (compared with other arrangements in Copenhagen). As far as hostels go, this one might be the best I’ve stayed at

This review is solely based on my experience with the bar and the food, not the rooms. I use the bare area for workspace, as I appreciate the ambience and having easy access to a fully equipped bar/​cafeteria, a great wifi and bathrooms within reach.
Generator Hostel Copenhagen is among my favorite «offices». As a freelancer, I enjoy working from home, but I most certainly enjoy working OUT of my home — at libraries and cafes, for instance. Generator provides me with the necessary facilities, like power outlets, coffee at a reasonable price, and a fast network. When hunger sets in, there is always the sandwiches and/​or the spring rolls with sweet and hot chili sauce to keep me happy and rollin’

I stayed at a 4-​person bunk bed for a weekend and loved it. There was a shower and separate WC in the room, plenty of space for myself and three guys.
The hostel was well managed, staff was friendly and very helpful, bike rental was affordable and easy, great place. It seemed like there was a lot of effort put into activities and the bar, even though i didn’t get a chance to check them out.
The ONLY thing I would mention is that our room smelled a little funny when we’d first get in after being away. I couldn’t quite place what it was… But Copenhagen is one of the most expensive cities in the world, so it was well worth saving with a hostel and spending your holiday €€ in the city.

The Generator hostel is definitely one of the best hostels I’ve stayed in. It’s clean, it’s modern, the staff is friendly, it’s in a great location, and its a decent price. I highly recommend doing the free walking tour that is offered — I learned about and saw a lot of the city that way. The only reason they loose a star is that I wish some sort of breakfast were included in the room rate. Luckily with their location you can find plenty of alternatives nearby, or just buy one item of their breakfast menu (I liked the parfait). Would definitely recommend.

I’ve been at Generator Hostel during the Unilocal elite event. Since it is an Hostel, I thought it was a sad and poor version of an big hotel. It is absolutely not: Outside the building could remind you a gray and sad place where to stay for a short time, but inside the rooms are enough big and enough small to meet new friends and meet nice people from Copenhagen.
They have 3 different kind of room: the normal one, shared with other 5 people, the «private one», similar to a BnB, and the «Premium one» that comes with some «hipster» or cool forniture and several services.
But the best side of the Generator is the main area, where you can listen to music, connect to internet, have a beer with friends, play pool, watch sport matches: there is an entire floor for activities.
If I will ever have some guests, I will ask them to stay at Generator, the place is cozy, in the city center and well connected to Nørreport and other stations.

I’m not a hostel connoisseur having only stayed in two in my life, both in private rooms with private baths, and one 12 years ago another in June. But I can recognize this is the leader in the class for hostels.
Stylist mag did a luxury trip on a budget cost and highlighted the same brand in Venice. The name stuck with me and I didn’t even look at any other hotels or hostels when we decided to take a few day jaunt to Copenhagen.
The location is superb — right by Nyhavn. Walkable to nearly everything and right by the metro to catch local and regional trains and buses. The private twin room was very clean. Wood floors, white linens on the bed, and a towel provided as we had a private bath. The only thing is, while there were hangers, there we no drawers. But we had such a small bag (easy jet!) that it didn’t matter.
Copenhagen is an extremely expensive city so the price we paid was awesome for us. We did take advantage of the happy hour at he bar (5 – 6, 9 – 10 nightly) one night and ended up meeting a large group visiting for a stag do. That night ended out with the bartenders as well as the stag do. Had fun and made some memories.
While at the bar, we noticed people of all ages at the food tables, in the bar, and at the multiple couches to lunge in or using the various computers open for all. I felt this was a place you could choose to enjoy the atmosphere, or not.
Water pressure and temp was good. bed was comfortable. Our room was on the street overlooking the entrance. While the windows blocked a lot of noise, if you are a light sleeper, bring ear plugs.
Check in and out was very easy. They have a room to store all people’s bags too.
I would definitely recommend and stay again — not even consider anything else — on my next Copenhagen trip.

I am a frequent business traveller to this hotel.
In general:
Extremely friendly staff, very clean rooms,
Some of the hotel amenities:
Bar, lounge, pool billard, roof terrace, large TV, daily theme parties
Hints:
On the second floor there is a disco zone. Make sure you stay far away with your room. Sometimes it was a bit loud. :-D I usually take the 4^th or 5^th? floor. Enough distance.

Very clean, very well-​located, very well-​run hostel in Copenhagen. This is an expensive city generally and this hostel is also pricey, but I enjoyed my stay here and would definitely go back. My six-​bed dorm was clean and there was a bathroom in the room, which made things super convenient.

clean and safe hostel in the middle of the city
friendly reception and large open spaces for people to hang out
the dorms have a large storage locker as well
very very affordable rates as well

Since I was mostly couchsurfing, I only had one night here. It was extremely clean, the staff were very friendly, and it was conveniently located. If I return to Copenhagen, I’ll definitely be stopping in here (and hopefully remembering to bring my own towel).

The ideal hostel. The location is super central and excellent. It’s clean, cheap, full of young people, and has stuff going on (movie night, a bar).

Service: nett, schnell und hilfsbereit, perfektes Englisch.
Relativ zentral gelegenes Hostel (5 min zu Fuß zur S-​Bahn-​Station Norreport), neuer Zustand, Zimmer (Twin-​Room) auch in sehr gutem Zustand und besser als für ein Hostel erwartet, vom Flur war trotz Lärm erstaunlicherweise nichts zu hören.
Kostenloses W-​Lan (nur in der großen Lounge), zwei kostenlose Internet-​Terminals an der Rezeption, Billard-​Tisch, TV-​Leinwand, große schöné Dachterrasse.
Frühstück ausreichend für meinen Start in den Tag: Salami, Schinken, Käse, Honig, Marmelade, Butter, Brötchen, Vollkornbrötchen, 4 Ceraliensorten, Milch, Kaffeeautomat, Tee.
Publikum aus aller Welt: junge Backpacker, junge Paare, Familien, sogar Senioren-​Reisegruppen. In der Bar ließen sich schnell Kontakte knüpfen.
Kritik: Zimmer wird während des Aufenthalts nicht gereinigt, auf Bad– und Zimmer-​Boden deutliche Spuren der vorherigen Gäste. Laute Baustelle vor der Tür (7h bis 22h).