Recommend a hotel with parking - for travel into Amstelveen?

Recommend a hotel with parking - for travel into Amstelveen?

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TUS 373

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4,784 posts

288 months

Wednesday 18th March 2009
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Please can any of our Dutch cousins recommend a decent hotel to the south of Amsterdam. I will soon need to travel for a meeting to Amstelveen and will have my family and car with me. Therefore I would like somewhere that has good parking facilities also.

It seems that most hotels only have on street parking - and that can be €24-36 for a 24 hour stay (really expensive). We are looking for somewhere where we can perhaps base ourselves for 2 nights, leaving the car there whilst we don't need it.

Recommendations of a nice place (say four star?) would be immensely appreciated. Failing this, if anyone can recommend somewhere further out of town that would be nice for a family stay, but within easy striking distance of the town.

With thanks,

Bryan

pgmvveld

76 posts

290 months

Wednesday 18th March 2009
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Hi Bryan,

Try and have a look at this 4-star hotel in Amstelveen. They get good recommendations and according to the website they have parking available.

http://www.grandhotelamstelveen.nl/

Good luck,
Peter.

TUS 373

Original Poster:

4,784 posts

288 months

Wednesday 18th March 2009
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Thank you for that Peter. Do you have any personal experience of this hotel so that you can recommend it?

With sincere thanks,
Bryan

pgmvveld

76 posts

290 months

Thursday 19th March 2009
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No, I don't have personal experience with any hotel actually close to Amstelveen. Simple reason is that it is less than half an hour from where I live, so never needed a hotel there.

p.s. When will you be there and what car will you bring? Maybe a good excuse for a drive with my Chimaera.

Good luck,
Peter.

TUS 373

Original Poster:

4,784 posts

288 months

Thursday 19th March 2009
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Hi Peter,

Sadly the TVRS have all gone now. Had a wondeful Chimaera and then the Tuscan (in my profile) which was a very well known car in the UK. That registration number now appears on my Lexus RX 350. Plenty quick with 270 bhp, but not a sports car in the handling department!!

I have a job interview with a company based in Amstelveen and will be bringing the car, wife and little one over on the ferry. Hence the need for a hotel where the car can be stored safely when not in use, but will allow us the opportunity to do a little touring.

The prices of hotels seem really high and parking in the centre of town a nightmare by all accounts. Someone recommended the Novotel off the A10 to us, but it says on their website that they are extending the hotel and building on that! Some else recommended the Holiday Inn, but that seems even more expensive.

I emailed the hotel you recommended last night, but they have not responded yet.

Are they are any hotels further outside of town that would be nice to stay at once business has been done in Amstelveen? We are thinking of doing a little tour one day clockwise from Amsterdam to Volendam/Edam and then around to Lelystad.

Thanks for your help!

Regards
Bryan

pgmvveld

76 posts

290 months

Friday 20th March 2009
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Hi Bryan,

You could have a try here as well: http://www.expedia.nl/pub/agent.dll/qscr=dspv/nojs...

It is more like a bed & breakfast/guest house. Nice and small with a personal touch, right in Amstelveen and good parking.

I work in Amstelveen myself and live in Delft (which they call little Amsterdam, so nice to visit as well!). If you have an interview for a bank, than maybe it is where I work.

Good luck,
Peter.

dinkel

27,181 posts

265 months

Friday 20th March 2009
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PM me, I've lived there 10 years.

hugo a gogo

23,383 posts

240 months

Friday 20th March 2009
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Loads of places near Schiphol, easy drive from Amstelveen

halfpenny43

1,036 posts

243 months

Friday 20th March 2009
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I can recommend this place too

http://www.hoteldebeurs.nl

When I first moved here, I spent 6 months in the place. A load of my relatives stayed there last year when they were over for my 40th.

They have a small secure car park at the back of the hotel too or there are some good secure, reasonably priced car parks within 2 or 3 mins walk.

Amstelveen is an easy drive - 15 mins on the A4 and A9 from here.

laserblue

69 posts

228 months

Tuesday 24th March 2009
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Have a look on:
http://www.booking.com/city/nl/amsterdam.html?sid=...

Tophotels in Holland are rather cheap at the moment due to price dumping.
There was an article yesterday about this subject in our main newspaper De Telegraaf on the frontpage.

Also,.............I know the people of the Beurs in Hoofddorp personally if you like to stay there.