The Happier the Hotelier, The Happier the Guest
The “How To Spend It” magazine of the Financial Times covered Haagsche Suites in The Hague (see pictures), Park Tower Suite in Haarlem en Brugsche Suites and Maison le Dragon, both in Brugge, Belgium.
The New York Times addressed designers Analik of Miauw Suites in Antwerp and Marcel Wanders of Lute Suites near Amsterdam.
Hotel Beaumont in Maastricht has been restyled and reopened recently. It won the “Dutch Hotel Award” for its renovation.
Hobb publishes various Dutch language paper Hotel Guides: Hotels in France, Italy, Morocco and Germany to name a few.
Recently Hobb launched a new hotelguide for Belgium and The Netherlands. Another guide? one would ask, but I believe it will find its place, because it has a handy size. In addition there is the Hobb website.
There used to be a unified Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg hotel classification system under the name Benelux Hotelclassification.
As of January 1, 2003 The Dutch started with their own Dutch Hotel classification system.
According to the Telegraaf of April 6, 2005 Lloyd Hotel Amsterdam gets a month from the Dutch Hotel Classification Authority to provide all rooms with warm and hot water taps. If it does not comply, it will get no star rating at all. Worse even, it will not be allowed to advertise itself as a hotel (!?), as the Dutch Hotel Cassification Authority has usurpated the word “Hotel” as being only available for those complying with their basic classification. In 13 of its total of 116 rooms there are no water taps at all. Lloyd Hotels has a rather refreshing and new approach to the classification system under its motto: Sleep and dine from one to five stars! Only a couple of years ago everybody deemed it normal to wash ones hand outside the room……
Another quirky hotel is the Propeller Island City Lodge:
It has 45 rooms, all by different artists.
The comment to the photo here is:
A room with a slanted floor which makes grandma’s bed seem to fly. The wardrobe comes out of the wall, but the table has got to stay put! In the rustic bathroom of natural stone you will find eggplant-colored slate.