Run by owners - and hubbies - Johan and Joost, this hip hotel shines like the pages of a trendy glossy magazine. The rooms are cosy, and the breakfast area on the ground floor...

A holy trinity of hotel, restaurant and nightclub in a former Catholic orphanage, Arena's only downside is that it's a bit out of the way - though trams whizz you in to the...

Housed in a 16th-century building, this leather hotel mixes luxury with lust. Perfect for those who don't need much sleep; seven of the nine rooms come with TV, VCR and S&M...

Feeling gloriously isolated on the eastern banks of the Amstel, this private hotel in a former stone-mason's workshop is actually just a few minutes' stroll from the bright...

Welcome to the future of hotels: the shipping container at CitizenM. Due to the housing shortage in Amsterdam, local students have long been living in these humble units, but...

If you're planning on taking kids to Artis zoo then this hotel is just across the road, and their triple and quad rooms are very much aimed at families. Even though it's a bit...

The first gay hotel in town, the Golden Bear's rooms are spacious and comfortable, though not all have private bathrooms. Single rooms have double beds.

Ideal for flower power freaks who want to stock up on bulbs, this homey little place in an 18th-century house on a canal is right in the thick of it, very near the floating...

This higgledy-piggledy place in an old Dutch East India Company sea captain's house is perched on a secluded little canal near the river. The rooms here are plain and basic,...

A cosy hotel that exudes a touch of faded glamour. Rooms - though a touch dark - are nicely decorated with clunky, polished period furniture and chandeliers; most of them are...

If you're arriving in town late or leaving first thing, this place is ideal, not only because it's as close to the railway station as it's physically possible to be without...

Situated in a listed building on a quiet stretch of Prinsengracht convenient for the gay hot spots, the ITC Hotel has 20 charming rooms. The free internet and e-mail access,...

This former youth prison has been re-invented as one- to five-star accommodation complete with a new 'cultural embasssy'. Fitting in nicely in this harbour neighbourhood which...

A reliable presence among the city's hotels, the rooms here - arranged across five town houses - are comfortable, plainly furnished yet good looking in an Ikea kind of way, and...