Hotel Seven One Seven, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Hotel Seven One Seven 5 Stars
"This sumptuous and refined townhouse has just eight large and elegant suites, located in the chic museum quarter, near Vijzelstraat."
- Room upgrade (subject to availability)
- 12pm early check-in (subject to availability)
- 4pm late check-out (subject to availability).
Hotel Overview
Review of Hotel Seven One Seven, by Gemma Pitcher
Seven One Seven is a listed historical building, an 19th century townhouse whose dark green shutters open onto an old marble hallway, from which an oak stairway leads to the rooms - two splendid grand suites overlooking the 17th century Prinsengracht canal in front of the house, and six faultlessly decorated suites at the back overlooking two patios.
Each room is named after a famous artist or musician - ask for Mozart or Schubert for canal views. CD and DVD player, flat panel television, antique furniture, finest linens and fresh Dutch flowers are standard. Original modern and classical artworks adorn the walls. Breakfast is served in the rooms, in one of the two magnificently upholstered parlours – complete with Irish tweed curtains and grand piano - or on the sunny garden terrace.
The Prinsengracht is one of Amsterdam’s most patrician canals, replete with antique shops, art galleries, and interesting little boutiques. Seven One Seven is ideally located in the heart of of the city and is within walking distance of the Concertgebouw, the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh museum and the Municipal Museum of Modern Art.
Large Dutch breakfast, house wine, snacks and tea included. Great CD/DVD library. Smoking and pets allowed. There’s no lift, and the narrow wooden stairway is quite a climb to the top.
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8Who stays here?
CEOs, celebrities, board members of big-name fashion brands having their annual pow-wow and politicians enjoying elicite affairs.
Come for...
- Endearing and eccentric rooms
- Luxurious mod-cons
- Great DVD and CD library
Not Suitable for...
- Big-business, big-hotel fans
Children
Children are welcome. Extra beds are EUR 75 per night and cots are free of charge. Babysitting is available if reservations are made 96 hours in advance.
Eating in
Breakfast, afternoon tea and drinks are included with the rates. Room service is available 24 hours.
The Press Say
“The discreetly attentive staff of this exclusive hotel seem more like a butler and housekeeper than just hotel employees.” The Guardian 08
Reviews
Review of Hotel Seven One Seven, by Anna Jankovich
The cobbled streets are filled with shops and cafes, trams take turns going through a narrow section of the road ahead; a boat slowly cruises under the bridge and the sounds of bells ring everywhere as cyclists make their way through the traffic carrying another passenger or a bouquet of flowers from the world-famous flower market nearby.
Along this most picturesque canal, is hidden Amsterdam’s best-kept secret, Hotel Seven One Seven. This classic 19th-century house, its façade decorated with large elegant windows outlined with green shutters, has become one of Amsterdam’s most exclusive guesthouses. It took Kees van der Valk lots of imagination and one and a half years to fully restore this house from a dilapidated state to an exclusive eight bedroom suite hotel. Inspired by a stay in a Scottish B&B, the famous Dutch fashion designer tried his hand at decorating and in 1996, with his partner, achieved a sense of serenity in a luxurious and unpretentious setting. Together, they managed the hotel and lived in their apartment on the ground floor.
As you come in, you sense you are entering a private house. You wipe your feet on the mat, put your umbrella in the holder and place your coat on the chair opposite, next to a table where newspapers lie and a fresh bouquet of flowers is placed. A welcoming staff member offers to take your coat and bags to your room while you sit down in one of the three salons to either read your paper, do a bit of work or simply unwind from the next to a roaring fire and the sound of classical music. Immediately, you feel your body melting into one of the armchairs; it’s as though you’re at home at the end of a long day.
The marble floored entrance is light and narrow giving way to three beautiful salons, one being the library. Each room is decorated with different coloured walls, fabrics and furniture. The mantlepieces and side-tables are clustered with candles, frames and knick-knacks from around the world, which Kees collected as he travelled (you can let your imagination run wild guessing what the history of every object is about.) The walls are hung with paintings, a balance selection of modern and classic art.
The comfortable couches and large armchairs are upholstered with tasteful tweeds, velvets and natural fibres influenced by a variety of English, French and African styles - a fine contrast to the natural wooden floors. Tea, coffee, wine, spirits are offered accompanied by either delicious pastries or salty snacks.
The narrow staircase lead guests to eight luxury suites and rooms each designed with its own style and named after a famous author or composer. The rooms are spacious and filled with light. The Schubert Suite and Picasso Suite, both 70 sq m, have five large windows overlooking the romantic tree-lined Prisengracht and its bustling street life below. As you observe people impatiently trying to find a parking space, eagerly looking for a lamppost to lock their bicycles onto or carrying their groceries home, your cocoon feels even cosier.
Other suites - Shakespeare, Tolkien, Von Goethe and Frans Liszt (over 50 sq m) - have their windows overlooking the private patios highlighted with perfectly manicured plants. Every room is impeccably decorated and furnished with a variety of antiques personally chosen by Kees.
The bathrooms are airy and fully equipped and each sink has a floral decoration in which is tucked the distinctive scented Hermes soaps, as well as large thick towels. Bouquets of fresh flowers are placed around the rooms and there is little left to do but to relax on a couch with a magazine, listen to a CD or watch a DVD from the selection downstairs.
The staircase leading from the entrance corridor to the ground floor is decorated with prints stuck directly to the wall, an 18th-century tradition of print rooms. On this floor, Kees van der Valk resided and his apartment became the refined Frans Liszt Suite. Nearby is the Stravinsky room, the elegant dining room where guests can enjoy a real Dutch breakfast. Weather permitting, can also eat outside in the green patio – private dining is possible starting from 12-26 people
Review of Hotel Seven One Seven, by Lucy Cowie
Subtly concealed behind the glossy dark green door of number 717 on Prinsengracht, Amsterdam’s most stylish canal, lies a gorgeous private guesthouse which whispers of understated luxury. Crossing the threshold of the white marble hallway, the bustle of the dynamic Dutch capital is left far behind and your attention drifts from avoiding determined city cyclists to absorbing the antiques and paintings that crowd the richly decorated rooms of Hotel Seven One Seven.
A refreshing antidote to some impersonal high-end hotels, Seven One Seven’s eight eclectically decorated rooms and suites are all unique. Each room is named after a musician, artist or writer, reinforcing the guesthouse’s impressive creative credentials; the Shakespeare suite combines abstract canvasses with antique ceramics, while the grand Picasso suite, overlooking the 17th-century canal, features ethnic artifacts and a bold Picasso print within its expansive 70msq limits. Originally designed by late fashion and interiors designer Kees van der Valk, the current owners have retained his indulgent yet homely style throughout the guesthouse.
The discerning business travellers and international tourists who make Seven One Seven their Amsterdam bolthole can browse through art and fashion volumes in the elegant library, or rest in beautifully upholstered armchairs in front of the saloon fire, after searching for antiques on the nearby Spiegelstraat.
Some of Amsterdam’s best restaurants, shops and galleries – such as the celebrated Rijksmuseum and contemporary photography exhibition space FOAM – are a short, romantic stroll away along the canals. But the accommodating staff and comfortable surroundings might tempt you to simply stay put and indulge in complimentary afternoon tea. That is, if the delicious breakfast of pastries, fruit and eggs served in the light-flooded Stravinsky room, has left you any space.
Seven One Seven doesn’t serve evening meals, though a fine choice of wines and champagne can be ordered to your room to start or end the evening. Crisp bed linen, welsh blankets, Wi-Fi and thoughtful details such as offering a choice of films to watch on each room’s Bang and Olufsen entertainment system, makes tearing yourself away from this self-styled ‘home from home’ very tough indeed.
Review of Hotel Seven One Seven, by The TI Review Team
If there's any hotel in Amsterdam that gives the impression of shacking up at your very wealthy uncle's extremely tasteful bachelor pad, Seven One Seven is it. Designed by the late great interiors talent Cees van der Valk, and run with Royal Navy-caliber rigor by the charming Mrs Rohl, Seven One Seven is an eight-suite haven of beauty and tranquillity at the very nexus of Amsterdam's art, style, and night-life scenes.
The facilities
Seven One Seven's entire parlour floor is given over to an enfilade of patrician public spaces: two vast, cosily kitted-out living rooms are filled with antiques and exotic relics from the country's far-reaching colonial past, and painted in soothing shades of biscuit and gray-blue. Across the hall, the library boasts a large antique reading table, a large fireplace flanked by cosy armchairs, and shelf after shelf of novels, guide books and art tomes in several languages.
The enormous and gorgeous breakfast is served in a low-ceilinged salon on the lower ground floor, lined with botanical prints and giving onto a hushed, manicured garden - the perfect place to sip a glass of white wine on a mild summer evening. Staff is ready to supply whatever you need, from a good film or some soothing music (there are baskets of DVDs and CDs for the guest's taking) to an excellent Pinotage from Paarl (wine and hors d'oeuvres are complimentary every evening).
The rooms
Even the smallest of Seven One Seven's suites, Room at The Top, is vast by conventional standards, with its own sitting area and charming pitched mansard ceilings. The junior suites are like huge studio apartments, with overstuffed sofas and chairs, massive antique desks, and tall brass beds elegantly dressed in white linen and Welsh wool blankets (a discreet curtain can be pulled to separate the sleeping area from the lounging area).
Each is unique and utterly tasteful, with palettes straight out of World of Interiors (deep Hague blue and rich camel in the Goethe suite, warm terracotta-red and grey in the Tolkein suite), and a near-flawless mix of antiques and textiles. For a splurge, book the Picasso suite: with its massive refectory table, two huge sofas, lush potted plants and four huge windows overlooking the Prinsengracht, it's both austere and decadent.
Review of Hotel Seven One Seven, by Jeroen Bergmans
A decade after it opened its doors on Prinsengracht, one of Amsterdam's four principal canals, Seven One Seven is still the Amsterdam boutique hotel of choice for CEOs, political heavyweights, fashion designers and honeymooners. The exquisite, eclectic interiors dreamt up by stylist and former menswear designer Kees van der Valk have imbued this grand 18th-century townhouse with a welcoming, homely feel that's a rarity in high-end boutique hotels these days.
The grand, marble hallway of the boutique hotel leads to a double-fronted salon stuffed full of paintings, African masks and furniture upholstered in soft, Savile Row suiting material. The library opposite is lined with glossy tomes on art, fashion, interiors and photography. And beyond, the flower-bedecked Stravinsky room with its grand piano and French doors opening onto a leafy patio is where breakfast is served - unless you prefer it delivered to your room in a basket, that is.
The eight sumptuous suites are individually designed in the style of a bona fide boutique hotel and each is named after a painter or composer. The Schubert Suite, with its beamed ceiling and charming canal views, and the Picasso Suite, with its five huge windows and enormous dining table, are the most extravagant. Amongst the antiques and charming clutter, mod cons including wifi, B&O DVD players and air-conditioning are cleverly hidden away.