Posted in Belgium, Hotels, Netherlands, News on August 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Hospitality veteran Johan Neppelenbroek had set up Historic Hotels of The Benelux as a split off from Erfgoedlogies in order to enable this group of hotels to join the international network of Historic Hotels.
As of August 1, 2008 Annemarieke van der Velden (see photo) has taken over Johan’s position. Johan’s investment in the [...]
Posted in Austria, Belgium, Blogs, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey on April 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Today I discovered the nicely written Shortcut, A European City Blog with a nice lay out. It writes about 17 European cities.
It used to write about upcoming events, but nowadays in true web 2.0 style it links through to Yahoo’s Upcoming.
A pity Shortcut don’t feature The Hague.
Go enjoy yourself!
Added July 1, 2007
I changed the [...]
Posted in Belgium, Luxury, Netherlands, News on February 19th, 2007 No Comments »
The association of Dutch Heritage hotels by the name of Erfgoed Hotels Benelux (erfgoed = Dutch for heritage) has changed its name into Historic Hotels of the Benelux. Its nice new brochure has already the new lay out. When everything goes all right, its old lay out of its website here above will change into [...]
Posted in Belgium, Netherlands, News, Trends, Websites on December 5th, 2006 No Comments »
The site Weekendhotel.nl was set up by Willem and Esme Vos: Willem has a background in travel and tourism and Esme in intellectual property law and Internet related matters.
We started Weekendhotel in April 2002 to help you find the best addresses for a weekend away. Like you, we became frustrated with typical “bookings” sites that [...]
Posted in Belgium, Coming Soon, Design, Hip Hotel, Netherlands, Pod Hotel, Trends on November 13th, 2006 2 Comments »
Begin November 2006 the launch of Qbic Hip Hotels was announced by Paul Rinkens, Rino Soeters en Marcel Voermans, the people behind Design hotel La Bergère and Hip Hotel St Martenslane, both in Maastricht, as the Dutch answer to cube alike hotel concepts as Easy Hotel, Yotel and Hotel Everland:
Qbic Hip Hotel Amsterdam [...]
Posted in Belgium, Coming Soon, The Making of on June 14th, 2006 No Comments »
Under the tag ‘The making of…’ we follow the progress of a B&B under reconstruction: New plants in the garden and a new front.
Click here for a »slideshow of the renovation.
See also our prior »item Back to school: La Classe near Namur, Belgium.
Posted in Belgium, Coming Soon, News, The Making of on May 10th, 2006 1 Comment »
In april 2005, Anne and Jean-Luc discovered the old school and city hall of Denée.
They are seduced by the exceptional caracter of this house of 1863 : black stones on the ground, high ceilings, old oak stairs leading to a magnificent attic. From this autumn, they invite you to discover »La Classe.
La Classe is [...]
Posted in Belgium, News on May 10th, 2006 No Comments »
The people behind Downtown BXL started something new in Brussels next door: La Casa BXL: a trendy Riad in Brussels?
