Name: Hotel Keizershof
Address: Keizersgracht 618, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1017ER, Netherlands
Rating: 9

Smoke-free property

Garden

No elevators

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Vijzelgracht

Rokin

Waterlooplein

Grachtengordel

Flower Market

Munt Tower

Rijksmuseum

Heineken Experience

Stopera

Museum Square

Van Gogh Museum

Stedelijk Museum

Royal Palace

Dam Square

New Church

Homomonument

Oude Kerk

Hortus Botanicus

Anne Frank House

Vondelpark

Artis Zoo

Central station

NEMO Science Museum

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Viewpoint Groot Hoogwaak

Offem

Museum Engelandvaarders

Beach Noordwijk aan Zee

Rotterdam The Hague Airport

Arboretum Trompenburg

Stadhuis

Beurs World Trade Center

De Doelen

Rotterdam City Theatre

Maritime Museum

Railz Miniworld

Blijdorp Zoo

Witte de Withstraat

Sonneveld House

Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum

Erasmus Bridge

Netherlands Architecture Institute

Kunsthal Rotterdam

Wereldmuseum Rotterdam

Nederlands Fotomuseum

Euromast

Hotel Keizershof

Amsterdam

Hotel is simple but very comfortable and quiet, spacious and has a different treatment by the owner. Coffee with excellent quality and service, especially the typical Dutch cheese. Really surprised! Note 10!

Hotel note 10

We didn’t realize that this property is a bed & breakfast and not a hotel. This wasn’t an issue, but it was a surprise upon arrival.  Nowhere on Expedia does it say that this property is a bed & breakfast.  Our room was fine and the other amenities were as expected.  The stairs are a little precarious, but the building dates back to the 16th century, so it is part of the charm of the hotel.

Excellent location, room was specious and very clean. Ernest was very attentive and friendly. Totally recommend the hotel !

This is a well-located establishment near to museums and the centre of Amsterdam. We walked easily to the Anne Frank house and Van Gogh museum. The hosts in Hotel Keizershof were fantastic. Each morning we had a delicious breakfast with omelette cooked for us and we were given water to take out with us. There was a very good variety of food to choose from at breakfast - certainly something for everyone. Hanneke looked after us with good humour and positivity. She recommended that we visit the local Art Deco cinema which was a real treat! The room suited us perfectly. I would return to this hotel again if only for the wonderful hospitality.

We loved the place and the hospitality was second to none!

Very good location but bad quality / price. Very bad surprise to see that there was no private toilet.

No toilet in the room. Surprising for this price!

The DeVries family—matriarch Mary, along with her daughter Hanneke and son Ernest—are the hosts at this hotel, which feels more like a comfortable bed-and-breakfast.  The building dates from the 17th century and maintains many of the architectural features of that time, including narrow, steep staircases to access the guest rooms, none of which are on the ground floor.  As long as you understand that there is no lift and that the treads on the stairs are narrow and require agility to climb, especially with luggage in hand, then you will enjoy your stay here.  If you can’t accept climbing steep stairs, you will be better off booking a more “traditional” lodging.

The many rewards for accepting the stairs include clean, spacious, and quiet rooms; a convenient location within easy walk of tram lines and the Rijksmuseum; and, most of all, the hands-on care and oversight of the DeVries family, especially Hanneke, who presides over the morning breakfast (included in the room rate) and takes care of many little details for her guests.  The breakfast room on the ground floor has a long communal table where guests gather to enjoy a generous buffet of cold meats, cheeses, freshly baked bread, pastries, fruit, cereals, and yogurt, accompanied by orange juice and unlimited pots of strong coffee (Ernest makes a hearty brew!).
  
The hotel’s web site doesn’t handle credit-card bookings in the usual way.  It offers a form which people can submit to indicate their room preferences and their dates of arrival and departure.  From that point, reservations are made and confirmed through e-mail communication with Hanneke, who made the process very easy for us and was prompt in replying to any questions we had.  (FYI: the hotel prefers payment in cash, so plan accordingly.  Your credit card number will be used simply to hold the room and guarantee the reservation, but it will not be charged.)

In our e-mail communications with Hanneke, she described the hotel’s various rooms and their location in the building.  Wanting to minimize the number of stairs we had to climb, we reserved the “Raefje” room, which involved only one spiral staircase.  The room was large and comfortable, with a walk-in shower, plenty of hot water, an electric kettle with an assortment of teas and coffees, and a magnificent Delft-tiled fireplace: an ornate and beautiful reminder of the building’s history.  The room overlooked a lovely garden and was quiet at all hours of the day and night.  The small toilet cubicle was located on the landing, just outside the door of the room, and some people might find this a bit awkward.

We arrived in Amsterdam on a Delta Airlines flight which landed at the dark hour of 6 AM, and we took a train from Schipol Airport to Amsterdam Centraal station, and then a tram to the hotel, arriving around 8 AM.  Weeks earlier, we had alerted Hanneke of our early arrival, and she told us that we could leave our bags with her and explore the city for a few hours until our room was ready.  When we arrived at the hotel and rang the doorbell, Hanneke warmly welcomed us inside and graciously asked us if we’d like to sit down to breakfast, which had been set out for the other guests who had already spent the night.  We were famished and gladly accepted her invitation to have a full breakfast and an opportunity to get to know her, after which we did spend the day wandering Amsterdam on foot.  Returning to the hotel in the afternoon, we found that Ernest had already carried our bags to the room, so we didn’t have to carry luggage on the stairs until the day we checked out.

After traveling beyond Amsterdam for a few weeks, we returned to the Hotel Keizershof for a two-night stay before flying home from Schipol Airport.  Hanneke had promised us that we could have the same room we had stayed in a few weeks earlier, but upon our arrival, Mary announced that she had made a mistake with the booking and that we would have to take a different room for only one night.  This room was on the very top floor and required ascending THREE flights of stairs, but we managed it for just the one night.  This top-floor room was called the “Rita Hayworth” room and was even more spacious than the “Raefje” room which we had occupied before.  The bathroom alone was easily three times the size of the bathroom in the “Raefje” room.  We loved this room and would have stayed in it for the last night, had it not been for the stairs.  We were very glad when Hanneke moved us back into “Raefje.”

We paid €150 per night for each of the five nights we stayed at the Hotel Keizershof, and we thought it to be a very good value, considering the hotel’s prime location, the ample and diverse breakfast, and especially for the daily conversations with Hanneke and her family, which certainly enhanced our stay and gave us a taste of true Dutch hospitality from a delightfully friendly Dutch family.

Perfect, as long as you can do the stairs!

Only seven rooms but all accessed from a steep spiral stair case; even our first floor (second floor in US terms) was challenging. Room was very large (although my mattress needs replacing)  but bathroom outside door and very small. Breakfast very good but doesn't start until 8:30, late for fulling seeing city (although owner did accommodate are need for early breakfast two days. Owner is very pleasant and personable but she pushed us to take a taxi to the airport saying it was a fixed price of Euros 37.50 (which was also stated in a flyer in the room) but we were charged Euro 45 by the taxi and owner has not responded to our email asking for an explanation -- much better to take the very convenient Metro to the train station and then the train to the airport, which would cost just Euro 17.80 for two people. Hotel is very convenient to everything. Owner does a lot of airbnb, so check out rates there also.

Great Location but Problems

Central to everything Stairs steep and winding to bedrooms Bedrooms very comfortable and clean and spacious Very friendly and informative owners

Girly fun

This is a historical building with the great staff and lovely people. Stairs are a little hard to climb if you have luggages. The hotel rooms are in the 3rd floor and there is no elevator. The owners are very nice people with a great breakfast and they give you loca guides.

Everything about this quaint hotel is wonderful. The location is phenomenal- 15 minute walk to almost everything. Local transit is minutes away & the area is filled with great restaurants & lovely cafes & bars. The owners were wonderful. They were very helpful with touring ideas and made sure that our time in Amsterdam was enjoyable. Breakfast every morning was fresh & plentiful- fabulous omelettes! This was truly a highlight of our vacation. The room was large, clean & airy & the bathroom was large & spotless. Pack light, there is no elevator, but we managed fine on the 3rd floor & I’m in my mid-50’s. Enjoy!!

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