Kruisherenhotel Maastricht
This superb option is housed inside the former Crutched Friar monastery complex, dating from 1483. Where there are modern touches, such as moulded furniture and padded walls, they accent the historical surrounds...
Book well ahead for weekends and in summer. It’s worth paying a bit extra for something central so you can enjoy the nightlife without resorting to night buses or taxis. Many lodgings in the capital city, Amsterdam, cater specifically to party animals, with flowing booze, pot smoking and general mayhem around the clock. Others parts of the country exude old-world charm. Any hotel with more than 20 rooms is considered large, and many rooms are on the snug side. Note that wi-fi is nearly universal, but air-conditioning and lifts are not. Prepare to carry your luggage up steep stair- cases, or else request a lower-floor room.
This superb option is housed inside the former Crutched Friar monastery complex, dating from 1483. Where there are modern touches, such as moulded furniture and padded walls, they accent the historical surrounds...
Located in six 16th-century canalside houses, this central hotel has a mix of 40 regular (ie nothing special) and some very fun themed rooms, including a room with a bed in which King Lodewijk Bonaparte (aka Louis Bonaparte) slept...
Popular with shore-leave-seeking seamen and travellers who appreciate the fine value here. The modern facility offers attentive service, a big breakfast buffet, a cheap bar with pool table and oodles of models and posters featuring modern ships...
Straddling the border between hostel and hotel, this spotless inn in an elegant old building has an internal Ikea vibe...
If you're into the bed-and-bike thing, this is the place to go. Run by Marjolein and Clemens, who love pedal power, this casual, friendly, green-minded hotel has rooms that are comfy and familiar...
One of the sweetest places to stay in the Netherlands, and not just because it has a bakery museum and old candy store...
The Schimmelpenninck is Groningen's grande dame, and like a dowager of a certain age, it sprawls in several directions; in this case to three sides of its block...
An Edam gem, this place might have stood as a model for an old Dutch painting. Its 23 cute rooms have bathrooms best described as cosy...
Our favourite hotel in this price range, it has just eight rooms in a house dating back to 1652. Its rooms, named for Dutch painters, are furnished with simplicity, but all have canal views...
Private, sophisticated and intimate, the Seven Bridges is one of the city's most exquisite little hotels on one of its loveliest canals. It has eight tastefully decorated rooms (all incorporating lush oriental rugs and elegant antiques)...
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