Inntel Hotels Amsterdam Zaandam, hôtel à Zaandam
Inntel Hotels Amsterdam Zaandam is a hotel in Zaanstad built to look like a stack of traditional Zaan-region houses, with green and blue wooden cladding on the exterior. The building sits on a modern concrete frame and holds around 160 rooms spread across its many house-shaped units.
The building takes its design from the traditional houses of the Zaan region, drawing on styles that range from modest workers' cottages to the grander homes of local notaries from earlier centuries. The area was once known for its cocoa and biscuit factories, and that industrial past shaped the identity of the towns around it.
The green and blue shades on the facades follow a painting tradition common in the Zaan region, where local homes have been painted this way for generations. Inside, old photographs and vintage advertisements for cocoa and biscuit brands from the area give the interiors a strong local character.
The hotel is on Provincialeweg in Zaanstad, within easy walking distance of the local train station and the main sights of Zaanse Schans. Amsterdam city center can be reached by train in a short ride, which makes this a good base for day trips to the capital.
Architect Wilfried van Winden designed each room to feel like a small house rather than a standard hotel room, with the idea of offering guests a sense of being at home. From the outside, the result looks almost like a village that has been lifted off the ground and stacked into a single block.
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