Museumplein<\/p>\n
Rooms with canal views may affirm a quintessential sense of place in Amsterdam, but seasoned visitors to the \u2018Venice of the North\u2019 can enjoy this cool alternative to those waterways. Formed from three conjoined historical townhouses on a tree-lined avenue in the museum quarter, the vibe here at the Jan Luyken hotel is smart yet homely. At the entrance a kitchen island doubles as a reception desk where young, laidback staff direct guests to one of 31 snugly proportioned rooms. Their large windows and creaking floorboards heave with history yet the decor is a modernist melange of zingy, black-and-white patterned carpets, colourful velvet chairs, tasselled light fixtures, scarlet bedside telephones and tongue-in-cheek wall art. Back on the ground floor, the terracotta dining room-kitchen is the venue for top-notch self-service breakfasts and all-day grazing on assorted snacks, beers, wines and pre-made cocktails. Given that these goodies are all included in the room rate it\u2019s a miracle anyone leaves the premises at all, quite frankly. The gym, snug library, rear lounge and garden hold further allure for homebodies, but the cluster of nearby attractions \u2013 including the Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum \u2013 provide just enough incentive to peel oneself off the sofas. Noo Saro-Wiwa<\/p>\n
Address: Jan Luijkenstraat 58, 1071 CS Amsterdam
Price: Rooms from around \u00a3180 per night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Museumplein Rooms with canal views may affirm a quintessential sense of place in Amsterdam, but seasoned visitors to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,3840,3837,1742],"class_list":["post-42785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amsterdam","tag-amsterdam","tag-destination-guides","tag-hotels","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}