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<title><![CDATA[Seven One Seven]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Forbes makes Seven one seven a top tip for Amsterdam]]></title>
<link>http://www.trivago.co.uk/amsterdam-46814/hotel/seven-one-seven-155138/rating-e64617</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:58:00 +0100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Forbes reviewer couldn't think of a "more refined" way to enjoy Amsterdam than a stay at the Hotel Seven One Seven, a "luxury boutique" hotel with the feel of staying in a "private home".  The hotel is in a 19th Century building with "canal views" on the "swanky" Prinsengracht canal and has only eight suites and rooms. Each is unique and decorated with "an eclectic blend of new and antique" art and furniture.
The decoration was designed by a former men's clothing designer and he has used "unusual" fabrics in the hotel including curtains made of "twill or tweed". There are plenty of "original architectural elements" which give an effect of "classic elegance" and plenty of "personality". 
The staff are "attentive" and mostly "tall Dutch men" who form a combination of "manager/concierge/butler" and are all "eager" to help with suggestions to make the most of the city.
The reviewer had the Schubert Suite which was "large", had a "full wall of windows" with canal views and had furniture including a "brass bed". The decor reminded him of "Holland's colonial connection with...Indonesia". A "heavy curtain" divided the bed from the rest of the room which was a slight "quibble" apart from the scratchiness of the sisal carpeting. They examined other rooms and found them "just as lovely" but felt the Schubert gave the greatest "sense of proximity" to the city. The bath tub was "extra-long" and designed for "tall Dutch people" and they were supplied with lots of DVD's to watch on the "Bang & Olufsen" player and also enjoyed relaxing in the library and drawing room which were filled with "international magazines and newspapers".
The area around the hotel was the "antiques district" and it was only a "short walk" to the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum.
For breakfast guests can choose to eat in their suite or in the "lovely ground-floor Stravinsky" room where "freshly cut fruit salad" and a plenty of "breads, Dutch cheeses and ham" are available at "beautifully laid table(s)". The hotel doesn't have a "bar or restaurant" but you can have "afternoon tea or drinks" delivered to your room for free.

The hotel feels "more like an elegant bed-and-breakfast" than a hotel and this may not be what everyone wants especially if the "solicitous" service could seem to you like "someone is monitoring" your movements. If that doesn't appeal then "choose a more anonymous hotel". Rooms at the front of the hotel can be "somewhat noisy" whilst the quieter ones at the back "sacrifice" the canal view. It's also not for you if you can't handle steps - "very narrow, steep, 19th-century steps" - it has no lift due to being a "listed" buliding. So if you can cope with stairs and a lot of "interaction" with the staff, this hotel is "hard to beat for location, service or elegance". 


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<title><![CDATA[Something special in the heart of Amsterdam]]></title>
<link>http://www.trivago.co.uk/amsterdam-46814/hotel/seven-one-seven-155138/rating-e64283</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Seven one seven is an "up-market, all-suite" hotel with just eight rooms that's like an "inner city version" of the very best sort of British B&B. It "doesn't look like a hotel" from the outside - but then that's not so surprising - It doesn't look like one inside either. Inspired by staying at a Scottish B&B, the owner Kees van der Valk wanted to make his own interpretation of "the perfect guest house" and chose to do it in Amsterdam, where there were "not nearly enough interesting" hotels. He found a "large listed building" on the Prinsengracht, one of the three key canals in the city center. When he bought it the building had been converted into ugly offices but in "just six months" he got it back to its "former domestic grandeur".  He sourced the finest materials for the hotel - "luxurious" angora blankets were "custom made" at a mill in Wales; copper beds came from London; fireplaces and antiques were scoured from all over Europe.
Seven one seven has an "unbeatable" location within "easy strolling distance" of the museums and best shopping streets, as well as being handy for bars and restaurants. Many of the suites are very large - the Picasso is "seventy square meters". Rooms have high ceilings, large windows and are decorated with antiques. If you don't want to get up for breakfast they'll organise a basket full of "delicious surprises" and afternoon tea is also "included" in the price and served in the "light-filled" library. Decoration is "personal, eclectic".]]></description>
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