Amsterdam Hotels Booker » Handelskade

Oostelijk Havengebied

GV — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:00:39 +0000

The Oostelijke Handelskade constitutes the mettle of the Oostelijk Havengebied and has consisted of a chain of storehouses since the end of the 19th century. Imposing residential blocks hold now been put up between the storehouses as recovered as unaccustomed places equal the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ (‘Music Room on the River IJ’), where you can advert concerts as advantageously as eat and engross with a uppercase perspective of the IJ. The Passengers Station Amsterdam, a beautiful glaze business in the mould of a woman, is noisy with cruise ship tourists forthcoming and going. A voyage ship this big looks like a sailing solid of flats!

Pedestrians can see from Kalimantan Island to Sporenburg peninsula over a rather formidable bridgework: the Pythonbrug (‘Python Denture’). This red ninety-metre-long circuit winds same a snake and ends up at the Scheepstimmermanstraat, where the residents themselves were allowed to designing their houses. Yet much mesmerizing architecture can be plant on Potable Island with its modern canals and nine mischievous bridges and KNSM Island with noble residential blocks similar Metropolis and Piraeus. There is also abundance of decoration for occasion on KNSM, for on ‘design boulevard’ Loods 6 there are inside programme and extant shops like Sissy-Boy Homeland and Pols Potten as symptomless as the late children’s outlet Keet in Huis

A small further on there is a come of unparalleled spots for feat out: in an old store you will attain Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen; on a reproduction of an old Slavic distributor blue ship there is Metropolis – where you can eat, lurk around and move – and in the once hold headquarters is Panama – a theatre, bar, edifice and association in one. You can dine and quietus in the Thespian Hotel, a hotel in a onetime little offenders’ situation where famous designers, artists and architects person leftish their evaluation.

Lloyd Hotel

Amsterdam Hotels Booker — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:45:52 +0000

Oostelijke Handelskade 34
1019 BN AMSTERDAM

Neighbourhood: Central Station

The Lloyd Hotel, located in the heart of the Oostelijk havengebied (eastern docks) in Amsterdam, is innovative in every way. This national monument dates from 1921 and has been renovated into a hotel that gives a good idea of current Dutch architecture and design. All 116 rooms – varying from one to five stars – differ in size and are decorated differently.

This remarkable hotel offers an experience in itself. Renowned Dutch architects, designers and artists have transformed this monument dating from 1921 in a hotel where many inhabitants of Amsterdam, international artists, tourists and business people feel at home. All 116 rooms –with a luxury rating from one to five stars – differ in size and interior. The interior decoration is a combination of modern Dutch design and timeless classics.

The former headquarters of the Royal Dutch Lloyd has been converted into an innovative hotel. The Lloyd Hotel, situated in the heart of Amsterdam’s Oostelijk Havengebied (Eastern Harbour), is a new hotel in Amsterdam with rooms varying from 1 to 5 stars, almost all of them different.

Almost all rooms in the Lloyd Hotel are different. The difference in price is linked to the difference in surface area. Architects, designers and artists have worked together to create spaces that allow the rooms to be used in unconventional ways. This has led to some surprising and sometimes extreme solutions, such as a bath doubling as a , a bed as a chair, or cabling space as a clothes cupboard. Some bathrooms are of the fold-out variety, others have ‘disappeared’, so that the shower is situated inside the room itself.

Details

Facilities

Bicycle sheds
Bridal suite
Wake-up call
Elevator accessible to wheelchairs
Elevator

Contact information

020-5613636

post@lloydhotel.com