The College Hotel is a newly opened boutique hotel located in Amsterdam Oud-Zuid with a restaurant, a charming garden terrace and an intimate lounge bar. This property is very conducive for meetings and serious talks, both for business and private. The boutique hotel is like a secret plush place where you can spend an afternoon or evening with a friend/s or your lover over drinks and you will not even notice the clock ticking away.
The College Hotel
Website: The College Hotel
Blondine and I came here for a cup of coffee and to catch up with each other. We settled in the lounge bar because it is cold to be sitting at the outdoor terrace (it was not open anyway). It is October so many terraces in the Netherlands are closed, although in busy areas such as in the city centre, they are still open.
Here is a little bit of history:
My hunches were correct, the building was once a school called H.B.S. in 1895. I love it when old historical buildings are transformed into something that serves a much greater public. But the times gone by doesn’t stop there really, because today the hotel and restaurant operates as an on-the-job-training facility for many students in the Horeca (hotel, restaurants, café) branch. This is quite special and very noble for the hotel to follow the purpose of its origins.
The design and atmosphere of the hotel brings to mind the Conservatorium Hotel, also located in Amsterdam near the Museum Square. It must have been the bricks and the arched hallways, the renowned Brick Gothic/Renaissance Architecture of Northern Europe.
The toilet is quite impressive, dainty and princessy.
This is the outdoor terrace which is open (and very cosy!) during summer. October is not a warm enough month to sit outside though.
This is why I love the newer boutique hotels in Europe than the usual 5-star chain hotels. As you step inside the property, you breathe-in design, ambiance and (preserved) history.
Visit Period: October 2013
Destination: Amsterdam South (Amsterdam – North Holland), The Netherlands
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