HOTELS > The Lloyd Hotel (**/*****)

The Lloyd Hotel is a new Dutch hotel centrally situated in the fashionable heart
of Amsterdam’s Eastern Docklands Area. 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. The service is the same for everybody: 24 hours room service, free WIFI and satlellite television on all rooms. There is a restaurant, a bar, a library and even a “corner” shop. [I have been here for one hour: the porn channel is free, ed.]

The Lloyd Hotel, situated in the heart of Amsterdam’s Oostelijk Havengebied (Eastern Harbour Area), is innovative in every way. The listed national monument, dating from 1921, has been converted into a hotel, and is now a true showcase for Dutch architecture and design. All 116 rooms - ranging in terms of luxury from a two-star to a five-star rating – are different in size and interior styling. The hotel has a restaurant – called Snel, (best translated as brisk) – a recording studio, a nomadic library and a kitchen for the use of those hotel guests who prefer to cook for their own visitors. The hotel’s Cultural Embassy offers various services in the communal spaces.

Rooms: 116 [Recommended rooms: 306, 410].