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glass Winter Garden Ambassade is truly theme. The luxurious
breakfast room is nothing comfortable and, not bedding and mattresses
short of stunning. surprisingly, often full. make up for the smallness
Rambling through ten of most of the rooms.
The Toren handsome merchant’s Housed inside a former
MAP L2 • Keizers gracht houses, it blends attractive market arcade, the
164, 1015 CZ • 020 622 antiques with excellent communal areas also
6352 • www.thetoren.nl modern service. Popular have character. Kevin
• €€€ with writers, it has a Bacon, the hotel bar, is a
This graceful but comfort­ library with signed favourite with locals.
able 17th­century canal copies of their work.
house has all the modern Seven Bridges
technology you could wish Amsterdam MAP E5 • Reguliersgracht
for from a luxury hotel. Wiechmann 31, 1017 LK • 020 623
Deluxe rooms have a MAP K4 • Prinsengracht 1329 • www.seven
canal view and a Jacuzzi. 328–332, 1016 HX bridgeshotel.nl • €€
• 020 626 3321 • www. A keen bridge­spotter
Hotels with hotelwiechmann.nl • €€ can count seven from
Character Made from three well ­ this charming hotel.
kept canal houses, the Immaculately decorated,
Lloyd Hotel Wiechmann has been it has wooden floors,
Oostelijke Handelskade polishing its welcome Persian carpets and
34, 101Q BN • 020 561 for more than 50 years. furniture that would
3636 • www.lloydhotel. Wooden floors, beams grace any auction house
com • €–€€€ and panelling set off catalogue. There are no
The city’s leading design antique furniture and public rooms, so you can
hotel lies in the heart of Oriental rugs throughout have breakfast in bed
the gentrified Eastern the communal areas, without a twinge of guilt.
Docklands. Uniquely, and the bedrooms are
the 117 rooms rank from attractively simple. Canal House
one­ to five­star and have MAP L2 • Keizers gracht
all been individually Conscious Hotel 148, 1015 CX • 020 622
created by contemporary Vondelpark 5182 • www.canalhouse.
Dutch designers. MAP A6 • Overtoom 519 nl • €€€
• 020 820 3333 • www. This hotel brings Dutch
Volkshotel conscioushotels.com • €€ art and history into the
Amsterdam Centre In a simple modern 21st century. Original
MAP F6 • Wibautstraat block a short walk from timber beams and ornate
150, 1091 GR • 020 2612 the Vondelpark, the ceilings sit comfortably
100 • www.volkshotel.nl/ Conscious Hotel is bright in a contemporary setting
en • €–€€ and breezy with large, inspired by the light and
Located in the former comfortable and stylishly dark of traditional Dutch
offices of newspaper De function rooms. The café, paintings, and rich fabrics
Volkskrant on the edge of where they serve organic of Dutch traders. The
the trendy De Pijp district, foods, serves breakfast restaurant is good value,
the hipster Volkshotel is well into the afternoon. with excellent food and
fun and stylish. The bar on There are two Conscious a garden view.
the seventh floor turns into sister hotels nearby.
a club in the evening and Hôtel Droog
there is a rooftop mini­spa.. Hotel Not Hotel MAP P5 • Staalstraat 7B,
MAP A4 • Piri Reisplein 1011 JJ • 020 217 0100
Ambassade 34, 1057 KH • 020 820 • www.hoteldroog.com
MAP L4 • Heren gracht 4538 • www.hotelnot • €€€
341, 1016 AZ • 020 555 hotel.com • €€ The eponymous creation of
0222 • www.ambassade- The quirky rooms in this the Dutch design group,
hotel.nl • €€ fun hotel have been this hotel offers superb
Overlooking the mansion­ imaginatively designed, hospitality with the
lined Herengracht, the each with its individual ambience of an art gallery.

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