The world is locked down, the curfew has started and yes, sometimes the walls at home close in on you. Previously, I would probably have booked a plane ticket and now? Now I feel extreme gratitude for a night away in my own city. Just to break up the blah days. To show your retina something different for a moment. Even if the restaurant is closed (fyi: ordering roti in the hotel room works). Getting out is getting out.

Sometimes you enter a place and immediately think: sigh. It feels nice here. It has nothing to do with the size of the space, the stuff, or the luxury. It’s more about the ‘energy‘. I took one step into The Nox and I felt it, the nice tingle. A kind of good vibes only sparkles. As if I had been here before.

What I find particularly special about this hotel is the mysterious hook to the night. The deep blue color of the rooms and the connection to the moon. There are dream journals in the rooms (Yep, I’m sensitive to this kind of stuff) and even the room types are named after the phases of the moon (new moon, crescent moon, full moon!). The largest suite -you can’t make this up- is the honey moon. You get it: this is really a place close to my heart. If you’re in Utrecht soon: The Nox is where you want to sleep.