Ripley's Believe It or Not! Copenhagen

A broad book selection near the square, with plenty of picture books.

Family rooms sleep up to five, and the youngest find a soft green crocodile toy waiting for them when they arrive.

Compact rooms built around one wall-to-wall king bed, with lights and blinds run from a tablet.

Fourteen thousand years of the city's history from the Ice Age on, with Danish contemporary art made for the building, and free entry under 18.

The buffet is useful with kids because they can take tiny amounts of pasta, salads and vegetables until something works.

Rides and gardens dating from 1843, a Chinese-style theater whose peacock-tail curtain folds down when the show starts, and a marching band of kids in bearskin hats.