NH Barbizon Palace

Great Location for Tourists

I stayed over in A'dam for a couple of days to go to the museums. I had been to A'dam back in the 80s but since I was a wild child at the time I spent all my time partying and not looking at artwork.

I booked the hotel on line and did not realize that it was the old Golden Tulip hotel. The hotel is in an excellent location just 100 meters or so from the Central Train Station. It is on the edge of the party zone and is walking distance from Dam Square.

The rooms are big by European standards and nicely appointed. I only ate breakfast at the restaurant but it was very highly priced (USD $25.00). The quality was good though and was very well prepared.

The staff is courteous and professional. The bellmen are great tour guides. They can tell you where anything and everything is lcoated.

Unique Quality: Location, location, location

• Opinion of Price: about average

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Close to the Central Station

The 5 stars NH Barbizon Palace Hotel offers 270 rooms, with all the comfort you can expect at this level of quality.

The location is unique: close to the Central Station, the RLD and the Nieuwendijk & Kalverstraat shopping streets.

The front is an excellent people watching spot with the commuters, the trams and tourists passing by.

At the back at the Vermeer restaurant you can board a salon boat.

Breakfast €25; extra bed on your room €80.

Unique Quality: Parking garage with car elevator to the front street.

• Opinion of Price: about average

NH Barbizon Palace Photo: NH Barbizon Palace by night

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Good location near centraal station

Convenient location, inconvenient price

A hotel easily accessible to the Centrum of Amsterdam and the train station (link to Schiphol airport).

From the main train station of Amsterdam, the hotel is less then 2-3 mins walk, across the road, making this
an ideal location for those who need fast and easy access into the city. The hotel is also right near the red light
district (Amsterdams red light district is not "scummy" IMO) and several bars and restaurants. Access to the subway
is also near-by.

The hotel itself has a nice lobby, the rooms simple but spacious. The washrooms are nice as well with
a good shower for those groggy mornings.

The price I payed for the room was insanely high, but booked at the last minute (199 euros!).

Unique Quality: Easy access to train and city centrum.

• Opinion of Price: most expensive

NH Barbizon Palace Photo: it's a hotel room! Wig out!

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Great Hotel

I've stayed for 3 nights. See Unique Qualities.

Unique Quality: although Amsterdam is a small city for a tourist cause U can go everywhere by foot - the location of this hotel is excellent - just across the street from the Amsterdam Central Station, 30sec walk walk to Wormostratt (a lot of Coffee shops). short walk to the Red Light District and the Shopping St. (Damrak and beyond). U must take a breakfast there - tasty,delicious and U fill full till the evening. The service is outstanding. A 5 star hotel - that deserves this ranking.

• Opinion of Price: more expensive than average

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GREAT Hotel!

Extremely accomidating. After arriving from the states all we really wanted to do was relax for a little bit before seeing the city. Although check in wasn't until 3pm we arrived at 11am and of course we were told that our room (a non-smoking one) was not ready but there was a smoking room and we could check it out. We did, it wasn't smokey at all so we checked in. The front desk staff was helpful and very friendly. Two free internet acess computers in the bar area. Seemed that most of the guests were business people. Did not try out the restaurant, but this great hotel is in the middle of everything and walking distance to Central Station.

What can I say? WOW :)

I chose this hotel online and had just found VT - so had no clue what I was doing. I did well! This hotel is beautiful, and even though I got a discounted room, with no view I might add, the room was a decent size and of wonderful quality. The linens were heavenly too ;)

Two grown women traveling to Europe for the first time, with waaay too much luggage, and there was still plenty of room!

I have to say the staff was wonderful -definitely customer service professionals. We arrived about 7 hours before check in, hoping to leave our luggage at the desk and begin touring, and we were allowed to actually check in at that time! Every employee of the hotel was friendly, helpful and kind ... a great start to our travels abroad.

Unique Quality: The location was perfect. It's across a canal and a road from Centraal Station. A short walk from Red Light, adjacent to Damraak, and a jaunt away from Dam Square. For being clueless, I was so very pleased with everything about this hotel's presentation, location, and service.

• Opinion of Price: more expensive than average

NH Barbizon Palace Photo: Around the corner from our hotel ...

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Great central location at the heart of town

We had a great deal from Hotel Connect and had paid for an upgrade. The room was large, very clean and well decorated. It had exposed beams and was not a usual identikit room. The bed was huge and very comfortable. The bathroom was modern and everything worked well.
We missed not having breakfast included. We did not eat at the hotel.
It is situated opposite the Train Station. If you travel by air the links into town are superb, so this hotel being adjacent to the station, made things easy.

Unique Quality: Old but well maintained, good standards of service, polite staff. The hotel has style and a Victorian elegance.
Outstanding plus is the location. It is near the brown bars and not too far from the red light district. The Museums and Leidesplein are a short bus ride away. We walked everywhere and got to know the side streets and the main thoroughfare well.

Very nice property

Good location, very near train station. Have stayed at this hotel twice and each time it has been a pleasant stay. My rooms have been large and nicely appointed. Very efficient and helpful staff.

Unique Quality: Nice rooms and good location near train station.