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Archive for July, 2004

Lloyd Hotel launched its website. Curious what will happen. A hotel with rooms rating from 1 star to 5 stars under the Dutch Hotel Classification System. It is located in a former passengers terminal, has two restaurants and will serve as a “Cultural Embassy”. The initiators have a cultural, rather than a hotel […]

Great Small Hotels

If you are looking for a small and special Hotel anywhere in the world Great Small Hotels from Barcelona has a few.

Special Bite is a Dutch site in Dutch as well as in English with many tips about hot restaurants in The Netherlands. It offers also some guest reviews. Tips are organized by Dutch city/province.

The people from Designhotel La Bergere in Maastricht are developping St Martens Lane, probably the first Dutch non smoking hotel.

Hotel Arena in Amsterdam has reopened after a renovation. It changed from a Stay Okay into a designhotel. It added 6 designer suites and modern design furniture from Dutch designers as Piet Hein Eek, Marcel Wanders, Ineke Hans and Marleen Kaptein.

Today’ trend seems: the madder the location of your hotelbed, the better!
Some examples:

Dockside Krane: Havenkraan (NL)
Haystack: Het Lingeveld (NL)
Ice Hotel: Ice Hotel (S)
Life Boat: Lifeboat (NL)
Prison: Amts Richter (D)
Tipi Honeymoon Suite: Bruidssuite in een Tipi (NL)
Wine Barrel: Vrouwe van Stavoren (NL)
Look for more Unusual Hotels here

Globetrotter Herbert Ypma chose Aparthotel Bommelje in Domburg, Province Zeeland, for his newest HIP (Highly Individual Places) Hotels series: HIP Hotels Beach.