Category: News

Erfgoed Logies and Erfgoed Hotels

ERFGOED LOGIES

Erfgoed Logies is a Dutch association of small scale accomodations and B&B’s that share as a common denominator that they are located in historic heritage properties including historic ships. It was incorporated in 1996, initially as a vehicle to obtain EG subsidies to convert historic properties into guest accomodation.

Autumn 2004 Johan Neppelenbroek en Brigitte Bormans took over management of Erfgoedlogies.

ERFGOED HOTELS

In 2005 Erfgoed Hotels was split off as a separate association.

New websites of both associations were launched this week and will be translated into the English language in a short time.

New alliances are in the process of being concluded for both associations.

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2005 Dutch B&B Laureates

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  • And the winner is ….Lytshuis Zilver, located in Peasens en Moddergat in the Friesland Province which may call itself “Bed and Breakfast of the year”,
  • Number 2 is Oerterper Gastenkeamers from Ureterp, and
  • Number 3 Het Boshuys from Lelystad.

This title “Bed and Breakfast of the year” is issued by Pronkkamer, one of the Dutch B&B associations.

Source: Leeuwarder courant.

Hotel Reviews – Travel Intelligence

More and more people tend to book via Internet and more and more word of mouth will help the lonely traveler behind the computer screen to get an idea of where he might go.

Therefor sites with more or less independent hotel reviews will attract more and more attention.

The site Weekend Hotel takes care of this with respect to smaller independent hotels in The etherlands and Belgium.

Hoteldesign (UK) was created by Patrick Goff, who had a lot of experience with hotel design. The site is financed by ads from hotel suppliers and provides a lot of useful content by extensive reporting of various hotels and their design.

Travel Intelligence

Update August 2016:

Patrick Goff has sold his site. It is more or less the same, but many reviews have disappeared from the site since.

Travel intelligence used to be a site with a heap of professionally written hotel reviews. It was very reliable and it is a pity that it has lost this in the internet dungeons when it was sold to (I don’t know, but you end up in a site of travel zoo, which seems to be what its name indicates: A Zoo.

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Two ladies, Constance and Marlies, publish a Dutch lanquage Weblog each at Blogo.nl, a Dutch language Blog community.

Regularly both have surprising tips about accomodations in The Nederlands or abroad.

Constance is a Dutch stewardess and travels a lot. Her Blog is Luxereizen.blogo.nl (Luxury Travel). In addition she maintains the Dutch language site Shoppen (Shopping).

Marlies operates »Vakantiehuis.blogo.nl (Vacation rentals). After a busy and varied working life she retired (?!) with renting out Vacation houses in Sunny Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles).

New: First European B&B Fair in Brussels

March 18 and 19 maart, 2006, will bring the first edition of a European B&B Fair in Brussels in the Brussels Expo, Hall 2 (Heizel).
More info at bbexpo.be