College Hotel
- Style
- Light, contemporary, buzzy
- Setting
- Lofty ex-schoolhouse
The stylish College Hotel in Amsterdam is appropriately staffed entirely by students, which gives it an infectious sense of fun and vivaciousness.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 40, including two suites.
- Rates
- €150–€280, excluding breakfast and 5 per cent city tax.
- Check-out
- Midday, but flexible during the week.
- Facilities
- Flatscreen TV with DVD player (rental library at reception), wireless Internet. In-room reflexology, Indian head massage, sports massage. 'Bath menu'.
- Children
- Cots provided at no extra charge. Roll-away bed, €60; babysitter, €20, both available on request.
- Also
- Parking, €45 a day. Bike rental, €15 a day.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Room 123 is a double with a cute bay window looking onto the interior courtyard, with the bedroom on another level. Room 116 is a very spacious double room. Our favourite suite is room 101, with a freestanding bath in the middle of the bathroom.
- Also
- It is important to note that the staff is comprised of hospitality-industry students, so you may have to find yourself 'bearing with them'; service is not always the slickest.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Located in the former school gymnasium, with food inspired by the golden age of Dutch cuisine and given a contemporary twist.
- Dress code
- Understated, easy.
- Top table
- Any near the big windows.
- Last orders
- Lunch: 14h. Dinner: 22h.
- Room service
- 24 hours: restaurant menu, with snack menu from 23h.
- Hotel bar
- The lounge bar specialises in Dutch cocktails with ingredients such as cinnamon and apple. It officially closes at 1h, but there’s always someone on hand.
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