Luxury and environmental protection are not necessarily two terms that are often mentioned together. This does not necessarily mean that the two concepts fit together in any way. The Copenhagen Plaza Hotel Crown Towers has four and a half stars and can therefore confidently be described as a luxury hotel.Furthermore, it is considered one of the world's most environmentally friendly hotels. Apparent contradictions are not always hold true opposites. And now ran to the guests and make their contribution to energy supply. A publicity stunt? Maybe! He could still function.

The luxury

Was opened, the Crown Plaza Hotel Tower until 2009. A total of 366 rooms in Scandinavian style, guests here are available, and include four top floor suites and 39 club rooms. All rooms are equipped with flat screen TV, safe, minibar and high speed internet access. In addition, the hotel offers guests a 800-square-foot ballroom, twelve meeting rooms and banqueting, conference and exhibition space. Guests can use a wide range of facilities and services for their own convenience: Integrated with hotel about a laundry for guests, fitness facilities, a restaurant and a cocktail bar. Among the services, for example, a babysitter, a shoeshine boy, a porter and room service.

Environmental friendliness

What has been described

, offer many top hotels around the world. Particularly, the hotel through its ecological orientation, which makes the relationship with the best in the world. By the photovoltaic system caused a year of the hotels 170 000 kilowatt hours. With this amount of energy can provide over fifty single-family homes a year. The consumption per square meter located at the Crowne Plaza Towers at 45.1 kilowatt hours per year, told the general manager of the hotel, Allan Agerholm, the magazine “Stern” in an article dated December 2009. This significantly undercuts the force since 2008 for hotels in Denmark limit of ninety kilowatt hours per square meter per year. But that is not all that distinguishes the hotel. It has electric cars. The same ground is in the house for both cooling and heating system for the house. Toothbrushes for guests from potato starch. Leftover food from biogas is produced. Dishwashers and washing machines are particularly energy-saving devices. And in the kitchen be used instead of organic produce flown in from somewhere in particular products of the region. The Copenhagen Crowne Plaza Tower satisfies both EU standards and the Danish laws pertaining to energy consumption.

Struggling for power

As of April nineteenth

Realized the hotel is a new idea. Then installed in the hotel, there are two bicycles which guests can generate electricity. Are not entirely in vain do this: Who generates tens of watt-hour, get one free meal with a value of about 32 €. Might look funny when many a top manager in Copenhagen kicking suddenly in front of him.

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