This hotel in Amsterdam provides a cocktail bar in your room

Sleeping in a hotel, if it were a sport I would have wanted to participate. I am good at sleeping and I love hotels, plus I professionally practice weekend getaways and prefer to stitch my year together through vacations. So far my addiction-like urge for weekend getaways and vacations, back to sleeping in hotels. In hotels, you have a few timeslots that I want to discuss with you, they are so nice.

Those in the morning 

Early out of bed, being the first to approach breakfast and then no one has yet been mashing the scrambled eggs for you, there’s no spill with the fresh orange juice and you don’t want to smack the line-cutter with an empty (or full) plate. It’s a delight. A small detail is that you have to get up early, but hey, you can also sleep at home.

Those at the end of the afternoon and beginning of the evening 

The moment you’ve trudged through a strange city all day, you’re almost getting a nice kind of headache from the new impressions and then you go to the hotel to have a drink and freshen up. This moment is pure pleasure for me, but W Amsterdam knows how to quadruple this pure pleasure. In the bank building, there’s a cocktail bar (!) at your room. It’s called Ivan (or at least that’s what the cocktail shaker was called when I was there) and he makes an amazing Moscow Mule. No worries, I’m sure he can also expertly whip up a GT for you if that’s more your taste. If you’re spending a night in Amsterdam: book that room in the W with that bar. Look, you have a view over Amsterdam, wrapped in a towel with a cocktail in hand. Let me sketch your situation. So, tip!

Deep in the night 

Usually then, because when you’re in a hotel with Kiki Düren you slide through the lobby per pillow (true story), but a hotel at night has something magical. You see a lost hotel guest who has insomnia, the doorman is in relaxed and friendly mode and usually, the floors are freshly polished. It’s quiet, but not too quiet. Just try it out.