Maastricht, Netherlands

Van Oys Maastricht Retreat

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Style

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Setting

Maastricht’s botanical border

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If you need to hit pause, look no further: Van Oys Retreat pushes all the right buttons. Its owner champions the Cittaslow movement (languid, authentic living to boost wellbeing), so this restored château estate on Maastricht’s leafy fringe feels haute and wholesome, thanks to luxe design and destination dining. Plus, pace-yourself pastimes, like riding bikes through orchards or simply sitting in a jetted tub. No rush, no fuss, just how we like it. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

81, including 12 suites, spread across three buildings: the beautifully renovated Remise (coach house) and Château, and the sustainably constructed Carré.

Check–Out

11am; check-in, 3pm. Early check-in or late check-out (at 1pm for both) can be arranged, subject to availability and a €75 charge.

More details

Rates include a choice of à la carte or buffet breakfast, including pancakes, eggs Benedict, bacon and sausages, charcuterie and cheeses, salads, breads, pastries and jams, fresh juices and plenty of fine local produce.

Also

The hotel has one Deluxe Terrace Room that’s wheelchair-accessible. The restaurant is also easily navigated and there are accessible public bathrooms.

Please note

Create restaurant will be closed for the holidays from 14 to 18 October 2025; and 5 to 13 January, 27 April to 5 May, 20 July to 2 August, and 19 to 25 October in 2026.

At the hotel

Cookery school, wine cellars, gardens, parkland and lake, e-bikes to borrow (€40 a day), small boutique, charged laundry service, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, climate control, free fruit on arrival, tea- and coffee-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, local and international newspapers (on request), slippers, bathrobes. All but the Cosy Rooms have a handheld steamer, and some in higher categories also have a wine fridge.

Our favourite rooms

If you’re as invested as the hotel is in the tenets of the Cittaslow movement — essentially, living slower and therefore better — then booking the Spa Suite or Wellness Lodge shows your dedication to the cause. With your own personal whirlpool tub and infrared sauna cabin, you’re unlikely to be going anywhere in a hurry.

Spa

Currently, only in-room treatments are available. But when the Oysana spa opens later this year, guests can saunter in and out as they like, from 7am to 10pm, and work out in the stylish modern gym round the clock. It’s set to follow the hotel’s philosophy, with its overall laidback pace, nature-comes-first feel and personalised care, which will all come together with the silky smoothness of the bespoke, Woods Copenhagen massages or facials on offer.

Packing tips

Mucking-about clothes will come in handy as you ride about on bikes and accrue grass stains. And some stylish wearables for strutting about in Maastricht (with flats, for the cobbles).

Also

Suites have an extra festive feel come Christmas time, when staff turn elvish and add some sparkle, putting up a tree and decorations.

Pet‐friendly

Pets under 10 kilogrammes are welcome to stay in most rooms for €50 a night. Dogs are allowed in César bar, but none of the hotel's restaurants. See more pet-friendly hotels in Maastricht.

Children

Very welcome. Almost all rooms and suites fit a baby cot, and many have a sofa-bed (both for an extra charge). And there are special extras for little ones, too.

Best for

The estate’s grassy stretches and surrounding biking trails are ideal for juniors, although there’s scant entertainment for teens in the vicinity.

Recommended rooms

The Deluxe rooms will very comfortably sleep small families (especially those with a sofa-bed and space for a baby cot). If you have an older child who’d like more privacy, book the Two Room Suite.

Activities

There’s little to do on-site, but you’re encouraged to explore beyond anyway, and the hotel has a fleet of bikes to help you do so. Pedal out to Eijsden to play in the skatepark; or head 20 minutes north to spy birds and critters in the Eijsder Beemden Nature Reserve. Picturesque nearby village Valkenburg also has a fairy-tale theme park and cable-car to ride.

Meals

Unless your kids are precociously gourmand, Maes is the spot for family dinners. The hotel has a dedicated children's menu that changes each week.

Babysitting

Babysitters can be arranged on request, with advance notice for a €35 booking fee and additional €35 for each hour.

No need to pack

Mini bathrobes and slippers can be provided in rooms, alongside some special extras for smalls, including toys, books, craft materials and stuffed toys. Plus, each child gets a special age-appropriate gift.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Groups should bag one of Create's cosy circular banquettes; couples get cosy by the window.

Dress Code

There’s no need to go full Iris Van Herpen nature-fantasia, but a little nod to Mother Earth with organic fabrics or sustainably made wares will fit with Van Oys’ ethos. Go refined for Create, relaxed for Maes.

Hotel restaurant

Chef Guido Braeken is the ideas man behind Create restaurant — a name that sums up his free-thinking, yet anchored by technical complexity, approach to dining. Vegetables, herbs and honey come from the hotel grounds, and the bread from a nearby village, but Braeken’s cooking is boundary-free: oysters hail from Ireland, langoustines from Norway, wagyu from Kagoshima… Menus span a peckish three courses to a ravenous eight. And on Sundays, there’s more opulence in the form of a five-course brunch, held in the banqueting hall.  

Casual, farm-to-table, greenhouse-style Maes, in the Château, borrows eats from Belgium’s Heuvelland region, but keeps ingredients as local as can be.  

Hotel bar

Set in the Chateau, Wine Bar César and the adjoining library are modern yet painted in Dutch-master hues, with a few noble portraits of their own hanging on the walls.

Last orders

Create is open from Wednesday to Saturday; lunch is served from noon–1pm, and dinner from 6.30pm–8.30pm. Maes serves lunch from noon–1.30pm and dinner from 6.30pm–8.30pm, Monday to Sunday. Drinks flow until midnight (1am on Friday and Saturday).

Room service

Hangry after midnight? No problem — room service is available round the clock.

Location

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Address
Van Oys Maastricht Retreat
Kasteellaan 1
Eijsden-Margraten
6245 SB
Netherlands

Van Oys Maastricht Retreat sits on the historic city’s leafy fringe, in the Eijsden-Margraten municipality of the Limburg region, close to the Belgian border.

Planes

Maastricht Aachen Airport is the closest, a 20-minute drive from the hotel; or touch down at Liège in Belgium, a 30-minute drive away. On request, hotel staff can arrange transfers for an extra charge.

Trains

Maastricht Centraal station — around a 10-minute drive away — is very well connected across the Netherlands. You can arrive direct from Amsterdam in two –and –a half hours, and on the same line there are stops at Utrecht and Eindhoven. Or if you want to cut your journey-from-the-station time in half, Eijsden is the next stop from Maastricht and a five-minute drive from Van Oys.

Automobiles

A car will come in handy for nipping in and out of the city centre, exploring the verdant surroundings and flitting over to Belgium for chocolate-fuelled day-trips. There’s free, 24-hour parking on-site; or there’s a €25 fee for the hotel’s valet service.

Worth getting out of bed for

Van Oys is a best-of-both-worlds kind of place, set in the leafy municipality of Eijsden-Margraten, a 15-minute drive from Maastricht’s mediaeval, Gothic, Romanesque medley. This means idyllic days of hiking or biking (Maastricht is a 20-minute pedal away, quicker on the hotel's e-bikes) through orchards and following the wend of the Maas River, spying wild Konik horses and stopping for wedges of Limburger cheese and lattice-topped Limburgse vlaai fruit pies. In nearby Eijsden there's a castle, and Rijckholt‘s network of Neolithic flint mines make for fun subterranean exploring. For more offbeat intrigues, cross the Belgian border to Eben to see the Eben-Ezer Tower and its eerie biblical gargoyles. If Create restaurant has lit a flame in you, cookery classes, wine tastings and four-hands dinners are held in the Atelier du Terroir. 

Maastricht meanwhile has university-town energy, adding youthful oomph to its ancient history and war-time remnants (such as the kazematten tunnels, used as a bomb shelter, and the NATO Bunker). Tick off visits to Basilica of Saint Servatius, the Sint Pieter Fort, 13th-century Helpoort gate and a stroll over Sint Servaasbrug bridge; praise the literary gods at beautiful Gothic bookshop, The Dominican Church; and eye up modern art at the Bonnefanten and Marres museums. And if you’re visiting in spring, turn a magpie’s eye to TEFAF, the city’s famed art and antiques fair. 

Local restaurants

Maastricht’s dining scene has lots of life in it — take waterfront eatery Noon, which has an expansive terrace, creative crowd and pan-global menu, bearing Tournedos Rossini to Tom Kha Kai to Picanha. Michelin-starred Studio is studious indeed when it comes to top-tier cooking. Chef Gilbert von Berg’s menus are very finely tuned, with dishes such as langoustine and veal cheek in walnut and pomegranate sauce; or turbot in saffron and koji gravy. And set in one of Maastricht’s ultra-modern buildings, Beluga Loves You toys with diners’ expectations in tantalising ways, serving oysters with lemon curd, Wagyu with eel, hamachi in ginger beer — with dollops of the eponymous caviar along the way. 

Local cafés

Smaak in Maastricht has healthy season-led salads and tramezzini (dinky Venetian-style sandwiches), but balances this out with their range of decadent bubble waffles. Their paratha wraps put a tasty spin on breakfast, too. And in the trendy Wyck district, Broodjesbar Jos packs its baguettes with interesting fillings from meadow, sea and garden: pork belly with sesame mayo and kimchi, or brie with red-onion compote and walnuts. 

Local bars

The Netherlands may be more grain over grape when it comes to drinking, but in the south wineries flourish — Vineyard Apostelhoeve, for example, has a fine line in cuvées, Rieslings and Gewürztraminer. In Maastricht, get your weissbier fix at historic breweries (such as Bosch) or sip cocktails at close-to-our-heart speakeasy Mr Smith. 

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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 take-it-easy estate a frite throw from the Belgian border and unpacked their antique porcelains and bleeding-edge fashion, a full account of their break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Van Oys Maastricht Retreat in the south of The Netherlands… 

In the words of an advert for a famous Dutch lager: ‘schtop’. Sometimes you need to take your time, touch some grass and savour life — and Van Oys Maastricht Retreat is the ideal vessel from which to sup. The owner is a strong advocate of the Cittaslow movement, an offshoot of the slow-food movement, which prioritises communion with nature, authenticity and locality, and holistic wellbeing. This boutique hotel certainly presents a convincing case: you’re immersed in nature amid its leafy edge-of-Maastricht setting, ideal for rosy-cheeked bike rides; chef Guido Braeken is an ascendant talent with an adventurous culinary imagination; and — while the spa is taking its own time to appear (it’s due in November) — suites with hot tubs and saunas inspire self-indulgent wallowing. And you’re ensconced in either a château, restored farmstead or an elegant sustainably built annexe — all settings for reveries in the slowest of motion. 

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