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At Red Apple Apartments we pride ourselves on our service and we do everything we can to make your stay in our apartment and your entire visit to Copenhagen as comfortable and relaxing as possible. While we want you to feel at home in our accommodation, we also recognize that you might want to get out and do some sightseeing during your stay. So if you decide to leave the comfort of your apartment, we have created a city guide to help you plan your excursions.
The guide has information on city history, local cultural attractions, recreational activities, day trips around the area, and general dining, shopping and transportation information. Everything is on our website so you can plan ahead or decide on something to do once you get to your apartment (all of our properties include internet access).
Check out our city guide to Copenhagen or learn about any of our other destinations and pack your bags!
You may have noticed that our home page is getting crowded with flags. That’s because Red Apple Apartments is now represented in all of the Nordic countries with new apartments recently listed in Stockholm, Helsinki and Oslo. We are excited to be serving these important capitals. Each Scandinavian capital offers history, art and nature in abundance and our apartments are always located either right in the heart of the city center or with easy access to city attractions and amenities.
Our lists are also growing longer in Copenhagen and Reykjavik with several new apartments added to these established cities.
We’re excited to continue to find affordable luxurious apartments in these five dynamic cities. Check the website often for new arrivals as many of our apartments are being booked as soon as they are listed. And if you are an apartment owner in one of these cities, please contact us at info@redappleapartments.com if you want to see your property listed on our website.
Sunday’s edition of the U.K.’s Observer featured an article about an “Instant Weekend” to Reykjavik, and as proof that Red Apple Apartments is becoming a household name in Reykjavik accommodation, the article recommends us for finding an affordable and comfortable place to stay in Iceland’s capital. Of course this is no surprise to anyone who has already stayed in one of our apartments in Reykjavik or Copenhagen, but now you don’t have to take our word for it…a trusted name in travel journalism has spoken!
If you want to take the Observer’s advice and make a spontaneous visit to Reykjavik, please check out our list of apartments in Reykjavik at www.redappleapartments.com or contact us at info@redappleapartments.com and we’ll help you find a place to call home for the weekend…or longer if you fall in love with Iceland.
It is always a nice feeling to finish first. According to the English lifestyle magazine Monocle, Copenhagen ranks top for two categories in society and living:
The magazine has established its top 25-list to indentify the cities in the world that give priority to the joy and well-being of their inhabitants. The list of cities is made out on the basis of factors ranging from cultural life, incentives for entrepreneurs, international transport possibilities, communications, crime rates and architecture to public welfare systems.
Top 10 best cities for quality of life
Besides the main title as the best city for quality of life Monocle has special awards to towns doing well and being interesting within trade, culture, design, retail and globalisation. Copenhagen was awarded a special award as ”best design city”.
Copenhagen is world known for its art and crafts, we at Red Apple Apartments often get questions about where to go and what to look for in that category. One of the places we always recommend is Royal Copenhagen because it is as Danish as Denmark itself. We decided to post information here so you would have some basic information about the company and its history and heritage.
When people think of art from Denmark they often think of Royal Copenhagen or the Royal Porcelain Factory. This special kind of porcelain is as much a part of Denmark’s history as the Vikings.
The Royal Porcelain Factory was founded in 1775. The whole purpose of the factory was to create dining services for the royal family. This continued for many years until it gained notoriety by participating in the Worlds Fair. By the late 1800s people around the world were falling in love with Royal Copenhagen, and the rest is history.
Royal Copenhagen
Today, Royal Copenhagen is privately run and has merged or been bought by a variety of different companies. Regardless of its ownership, fans of this lovely porcelain still know it’s real by the mark: three wavy lines one above the other. These three lines represent the Oresund Straight, the Great Belt Straight, and the Little Belt Straight in Denmark. Although many try to replicate the Royal Copenhagen, none of them can come close.
On the company’s Web site it says that each piece of porcelain is touched by thirty different sets of hands before it is sold. Since everything is done by hand, from the molding to the firing, each piece of Royal Copenhagen is a one of a kind.
Where to buy Royal Copenhagen
Royal Copenhagen can be purchased online, at official Royal Copenhagen retail stories in Denmark, Japan, Korea and Singapore, or through special dealers around the world. More information can be found on Royal Copenhagen’s Web site.
While in Copenhagen a visit to the Royal Copenhagen Museum should be on your list of things to do. Admission is free and you will see, up close, how a piece of porcelain is made. The museum is on the second floor of the Royal Copenhagen Flagship Store so once you’ve learned all the history you can handle, head downstairs where you can purchase some of this fine porcelain.
Purchasing Royal Copenhagen for the first time
There are hundreds of pieces, both new and antique, that you may fall in love with. However, if you want to start your collection gradually, many fans of Royal Copenhagen adore the series of annual pieces like the Annual Mug and the Christmas Plate, just to name a couple.
Other Royal Copenhagen collectors opt for the Blue Fluted style of dinnerware. This style was adopted from the original Chinese craftsmen who created it centuries ago. Since porcelain’s arrival in Europe in the 1700s, many porcelain makers have modified the craft to make it their own. Royal Copenhagen has hundreds of pieces in the spirit of Blue Fluted porcelain. The pieces have a gilded edge and Danish flora motifs.
We’ve mentioned the Royal Copenhagen Web site a couple of times in this post. We suggest you check it out for more information on the history of Royal Copenhagen and to see their current catalogue of porcelain.
