Chase Sapphire Reserve

Chase Travel Copenhagen campaign by Kelly Wearstler

Overview

Location: Copenhagen
Type: Brand Campaign
Year: 2026

Nothing in Copenhagen announces itself. The best room in the city is an apartment, the museum worth the train ride feels like a private house, the historic amusement park is quieter than the street outside it. A city this well-mannered will never tell you what you are missing, which is the argument for arriving with someone who knows. Kelly Wearstler went for the first time with a friend's list and none of her own knowledge, and at the entrance to Tivoli Gardens, a guide was waiting. The Travel Designers service, included with Chase Sapphire Reserve, works through local connections to open up more of a destination than a visitor would find on their own: a travel expert in your corner from the first booking to the last day. By the end she had the park's history, the logic of its buildings, the stories behind the rides.

Kelly's Copenhagen

Kelly stayed at The Apartment: a hybrid guesthouse and gallery by the curator Tina Seidenfaden Busck, in an eighteenth-century building, up six flights of stairs. Brad was in Madrid, so she arrived first with Crosby, which changes a trip: a child gives you a version of a city you would otherwise miss entirely. They walked and biked, which is how Copenhagen is best experienced. They went out to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, where the galleries open onto the water with Sweden on the far shore, and the building feels less like an institution than somebody's house. And they spent half a day at Tivoli: the rollercoaster, the bumper cars, the carousel, darts at balloons for tokens to redeem for toys, no fast passes, everyone on the same level. Another of those perfect places that delivered as much for Crosby as it did for her.

Tivoli Park

Tivoli is a park before it’s an amusement park.It’s historic, intimate in scale, none of the noise and chaos you brace for. A guide met us at the entrance — a Chase Sapphire Reserve perk, through their Travel Designers service — who gave us everything the park doesn't tell you itself: the history, the buildings, the stories behind the rides.

Copenhagen wears its beauty with such crazy ease… where the design, the food, the people, and even the pace of a Tuesday morning all feel like they've been honed into utter perfection.

Kelly Wearstler