Hotel De Roode Leeuw Amsterdam

Hotel De Roode Leeuw Amsterdam is magnificently positioned in the historical heart of the city in the middle of financial – business – shopping – and entertainment district.

The famous Damsquare is only 50 meters and the Amsterdam Central Station is 700 meters from this particular hotel.

As the Damsquare is situated quite close to the hotel, you are free to enjoy the pleasure of visiting the Royal Palace, the New Church and the Madame Tussauds wax statues museum.

The history
In the year 1911 two directors of the Amstel brewery Ernest de Pesters, Esquire and Pierre Herbert Bicker, came forward to inaugurate a hotel at Damrak 93 – 94.

After this, the famous architect Foeke Kuipers designed and laid the foundation of Hotel De Roode Leeuw and finally in the year 1912 the doors of the hotel were opened to all patrons and customers.

At that point of time, the Roode Leeuw hotel had 35 rooms in all. The first floor of the hotel comprised the meeting rooms, which were significant meeting places for all delegates.

The restaurants were quite spacious as the kitchens were situated on the first floor. Moreover, plans were made to occupy some amount of space at the back of the hotel in order to enhance its ability to accommodate more visitors from all over the world.

In the year 1986, the Roode Leeuw finally acquired the status of a 4 stars hotel and the entire property received full redecoration.

However, at the beginning of the nineteenth century Hotel De Roode Leeuw Amsterdam acknowledged a-state-of-the art kitchen and the restaurants started delivering the Dutch Regional Cuisine as a respectable member of "Neerlands Dis”.

Convenient location
The other places easily reachable from the Roode Leeuw Amsterdam are:

• The Amsterdam Stock Exchange

• The "Beurs van Berlage" cultural center

• Amsterdam's leading department store "De Bijenkorf"

However, from this particular hotel it is very easy for you to reach to all essential parts of the city.

On March 2000, the executive floor of Hotel De Roode Leeuw Amsterdam was officially opened for most demanding business traveler and the floor was fundamentally equipped with a lucrative business center.

All the rooms in this hotel consist of large desks with sufficient lighting, two telephones with direct dial and voice mail and high speed Internet access. The hotel genuinely offers ninety years of authentic Dutch hospitality.

However, the “Business Center” on the “Executive Floor” of Hotel De Roode, Leeuw Amsterdam can also be utilized as a secretariat. Here an individual can readily make use of a Personal Computer, a printer, scanner, fax, photocopier and Internet access.

You will find sufficient parking spaces in the surrounding area of the hotel.

Standard rooms and executive rooms are the two essential room types of Hotel De Roode Leeuw Amsterdam.

The standard rooms are accessorized with

• Private facilities (bath, shower, toilet and hairdryer)

• Cable and in house movie channel TV

• Private safe

• Mini Bar

• Coffee and tea making facility

• Direct dial telephone with voice mail and high-speed Internet access

• The room is well equipped with electronic locks and smoke detectors

The executive rooms of Hotel De Roode Leeuw Amsterdam consist of

• Air-conditioned room with private facilities (bath, shower, toilet and hairdryer)

• Large desk with an Apple Internet terminal

• Plenty of lighting

• 2 direct dial telephones with voice mail and high-speed Internet access

• Cable and in house movie channel TV

• Private safe

• Mini Bar

• Coffee and tea making provisions

• The room is appropriately protected with electronic locks and smoke detectors

In short, Hotel De Roode Leeuw Amsterdam is situated in a convenient location and is in reality a presentation of class and sophistication both for businesspersons and commoners alike.

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