Designhotel

Maastricht


With its own in-house artist, this calm, professional design hotel has a lobby with '70s retro vibe and a respected brasserie oozing comfortable contemporary modernism. The 105 rooms come in varying sizes and styles, all with kettle and coffee machine and usually parquet wooden floors. Breakfast costs €15 per person.

Many feature stark, bold colours, others have bed boards inlaid with photo art or painted designs. Superior rooms often sport open 'show baths'. Five rooms lack natural light. The ground-floor Purple Red lounge is a vibrantly coloured chill-space with games to play for both adult and child guests. A small, light-suffused gym on the 4th floor has four exercise machines.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Maastricht attractions

1. Centre Ceramique

0.27 MILES

Primarily a state-of-the-art library, this modern airy cube also has changing exhibitions in the spacious foyer area.

2. Onze Lieve Vrouwebasiliek

0.44 MILES

Dominating an intimate cafe-filled square, this millennium-old basilica-church is a fabulous example of Mosan architecture, made 'extra authentic' through…

3. Helpoort

0.47 MILES

This rough-cut-stone tower-gateway dating from 1229 dominates the most impressive of several fragmentary sections of medieval city wall. You can look…

4. Bonnefantenmuseum

0.5 MILES

Maastricht's star gallery has an excellent collection of early European painting and sculpture on the 1st floor, but is best known for contemporary art,…

5. Markt

0.53 MILES

The Markt, Maastricht's commercial heart, still hosts markets several times a week in the shadow of the 1664 city hall, a distinctively spired, cubic…

6. Vrijthof

0.62 MILES

Home to a range of city festivities and occasional funfairs, the Vrijthof is an expansive square on which a row of terrace cafes face off against two…

7. Museum Aan Het Vrijthof

0.62 MILES

Exhibitions in this small museum change every few months but even if the current subject doesn't interest you it's worth popping your head inside.

8. St Janskerk

0.67 MILES

This attractive 17th-century Gothic church has a soaring if relatively unadorned interior and a 43m limestone tower whose deep red hue was originally…