Amsterdam Asylum-Chic Beds at the Lloyd Hotel
The Lloyd used to be a kind of boy’s home for delinquents..you can kinda tell, although the hotel tries to turn that toward chic boutique style.
Originally a boarding house, youth detention centre and then artists’ studios, the Lloyd Hotel is a design hotel set in Amsterdam’s fashionable East Docklands. Built in the 1920’s, the 116 room hotel offers guestrooms that range from an extremely broad “one to five stars”. Many rooms retain original features such as glazed ceramic tiles, wooden beams, and 1920s chairs blended seamlessly into design statements with bold contemporary furnishings.
And according to one guest, you can expect an experience every bit as exquisite as you would expect from a detention centre:
The two star rooms - described as “surprising” on the lloyd website certainly live up to their name. However, this surprise was more of a shock than a delight. The room, in the basement (by no means a bargain) had no natural light, the door to the room did not close properly (as a woman staying alone this was a worry), cleaning equiptment had been left in the bathroom, no mirror, no hairdryer, tiny tiny bed and worst of all pipes which led down through my room so you could hear when anyone above had flushed the loo - the pipes were covered in cobwebs and spiders - this room cannot have been cleaned for a long time. Absolutely awful - stay in the Hotel Bellevue if you want cheap, pleasant and clean instead. I wish I had photos to share how awful this place was…[TripAdvisor]
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ich muss leider sagen das die 3-sterne zimmer des lloyd-hotels, auf der webside als “remarkable” beschrieben, auch nicht sehr viel besser abschneiden als die 2-sterne zimmer!direkt neben der eingangstür befindet sich die toilette. darauf folgt ein waschbecken und eine dusche, allerdings befindet sich keine abtrennung zum bett, es befindet sich alles in einem raum. die fenster lassen sich nicht richtig schließen, was im sommer sicherlich kein problem ist, aber einen im winter doch ziemlich frössteln lassen müsste!ausserdem habe ich in meinem zimmer nicht mal einen schrank vorgefunden, was allerdings nicht in jedem 3-sterne zimmer zu fehlen scheint.
das frühstück im lloyd-hotel lässt ebenfalls zu wünschen übrig, es gibt keine normalen brötchen und labberiges brot! die warmen gerichte sind scheinen lieblos angerichtet und man bekommt viel zu viel.
ich würde dieses hotel nicht nochmal besuchen, die webside verfälscht die realität…