Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jan Luyken Amsterdam

Price per night from$296.09

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR255.79), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Poet’s corner

Setting

A potter from Museumplein

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Down a quaint avenue in the Museum Quarter, boutique hotel Jan Luyken Amsterdam is well-versed in home comforts. Named for the storied Dutch artist, it’s set across a trio of 19th-century townhouses, carved with creative influence and colour schemes that nod to the etcher's illustrations. A library lounge, self-serve kitchen and dining room add to its intimate appeal; and who knows, maybe your culture-steeped surroundings might just inspire an artistic epiphany of your own.  

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

61.

Check–Out

Noon, but you’ll get guaranteed late check-out until 2pm included with your stay. Check-in, 3pm.

More details

Rates include breakfast, as well as an all-day selection of drinks (including cocktails) and snacks.

Also

There are lifts to all floors and all Jan Luyken’s common areas are on the ground floor. However, none of the rooms have been specially adapted and due to the historic nature of the building, there are certain quirks (including narrow corridors and shallow steps between rooms).

At the hotel

Free-to-borrow bikes, self-serve kitchen, library, living room, garden, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, air-conditioning, mini fridge, tea- and coffee-making kit, free bottled water and Codage bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Smaller categories offer good value if it’s just a basecamp you’re after, but move into the Medium and Studio options and you’ll have plenty of room to play. Both are designed with the same custom, contemporary decor as their cosier counterparts; but their bathrooms feature freestanding tubs and living spaces come bolstered with cushy sofa-beds for little Smiths in tow.

Packing tips

Make space for flea-market finds by leaving books behind: there’ll be plenty of reading material to borrow from Jan Luyken's tome-laden library.

Also

If cycling along the canals doesn’t fulfil your daily exercise quota, the hotel also has a small gym kitted out with Nohrd equipment.

Pet‐friendly

Dogs are welcome on request for €35 a night. See more pet-friendly hotels in Amsterdam.

Children

Children are welcome; the Medium and Studio both have sofa-beds that can be made up on request. There aren’t dedicated facilities for kids at the hotel, but staff can recommend local family-friendly activities.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Take your breakfasts alfresco come summer, when the hotel’s idyllic terrace is bathed in dappled sunlight.

Dress Code

This home-from-home hotel calls for nothing more than your finest comfies.

Hotel restaurant

There’s no formal restaurant, but you'll find an elaborate spread laid out each morning in the dining room for low-key, help-yourself breakfasts; and an attached kitchen comes stocked with all sorts of snacks (including home-baked buns and cookies), as well as tea and coffee for between-museum pick-me-ups.

Hotel bar

Drinks follow a similarly informal suit, with a self-serve selection of soft drinks, wine and spirits from nearby Bols available from the kitchen.

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 7am to 11am, and the kitchen is open for all-day (and -night) snacking.

Room service

Snacks are free to take from the kitchen, whether you sample them on the hotel's sofas or in your room is all up to you.

Location

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Address
Jan Luyken Amsterdam
Jan Luijkenstraat 58
Amsterdam
1071 CS
Netherlands

Just outside the city centre, Jan Luyken Amsterdam sits on a leafy, residential avenue in the refined Museum Quarter.

Planes

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is a 20-minute drive from the hotel and your nearest international option. Taxis are readily available, or you can take the Airport Express bus straight to Museumplein, a five-minute walk from the hotel and your nearest stop.

Trains

Rijksmuseum and Museumplein tram stations are both a couple of minutes' walk away and offer direct links into the city centre. For connections further afield, Amsterdam Centraal is a 15-minute drive away and has trains to Rotterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Paris, Berlin and London.

Automobiles

A car isn’t essential in this well-connected city; but should you be bringing your own wheels, you can reserve a space at the public Q-Park Museumplein (a five-minute walk away) for an additional charge.

Worth getting out of bed for

Jan Luyken Amsterdam’s residential locale balances this city’s quieter side with direct access to the Museum Quarter’s cultured streets and Canal District’s charming waterside setting. Iconic institutions including Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, the more modern Moco Museum and the liquor-led House of Bols are on your leafy doorstep and make for engaging starting points. 

Pick up one of the hotel’s free-to-borrow bikes and cycle along the canal to Jordaan, where you’ll find waterside restaurants, boutiques, Saturday flea markets and the ever-blossoming Tulip Museum. And if all those florals inspire a need for more nature, Vondelpark is nearby, too. 

Local restaurants

Moeders means ‘mothers’ in Dutch, and it’s certainly a fitting name for this restaurant rooted in family. Menus celebrate generational recipes, drawing on traditional Dutch flavours and seasonal ingredients to offer soul-soothing stamppots, time-honoured beef stews and homemade stroopwafels. Despite its unassuming exterior, Sora Sapporo Ramen is an in-demand local spot for miso-based broths and smoky, wok-fried noodles. Folded portafoglio pizzas draw in-the-know diners to Nnea, where Neapolitan flavours and perfectly charred crusts star.

Local cafés

With buttery notes and flakes as flawless as these, you might be surprised to learn Saint-Jean Bakery’s homemade pastries are all plant based — their coffee being a speciality will be less of a shock, once you’ve sampled its complex, nutty flavour. Brunch haunts aren't hard to come by in the Canal District, but we’d suggest Kessens for day-starting eggs, pimped with pickles and smoked fish. 

Local bars

A biblical selection of bottles lines the cellars at beloved wine bar, Shiraz Jardin du Vins. And for an evening that packs a little more punch, Shakerto’s creative cocktails and elevated atmosphere come courtesy of the talented team behind Mexico City’s noted Handshake Speakeasy. 

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this home-like hotel in the Museum Quarter and unpacked their paints and palettes, a full account of their city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Jan Luyken Amsterdam… 

Defined by his detailed illustrations and masterful poetry, 17th-century artist Jan Luyken has left something of a legacy to Dutch culture — and it’s an influence his namesake hotel, Jan Luyken Amsterdam, highlights with pride. 

Made up of three coalesced mansions in the Museum Quarter, this boutique hotel has humble roots dating back to the 1890s, starting its long life as a set of well-loved family homes. Recent renovations have been careful to maintain their welcoming spirit, weaving contemporary frills with refined references to its artistic past in etched motifs and locally crafted prints.  

Familial warmth comes courtesy of an intimate library lounge, self-serve kitchen (which doubles as a laidback check-in desk) and sun-soaked garden. There's even a host of free-to-use bikes that’ll have you whizzing between this well-heeled locale’s storied galleries, concert halls, green spaces and revered restaurants with a wind-in-your-hair type of ease.

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