Upgraded for 45 euro for breakfast for 2 (normally 25 euro each) and free movies.  Spacious rooms (by European standards), comfortable beds, quiet location. Great breakfast with meats, cheeses, fresh squeezed OJ, fruit, eggs, bacon, pasties and croissants.  Lunch was great, too - 24 euro for a bowl of soup and a pasta salad.  Cost 60 euro with tip to take taxi downtown.  Cheaper to take free hotel shuttle to airport (15 mins) then take train to Central Station downtown for about 5 euro.

Radisson Blu is a BUSINESS hotel, and an excellent one. For leisure-time travelers and vacationers, another hotel might be more suitable.

Everything about the hotel is aimed at guests who can add charges their expense accounts and be fully reimbursed by an employer, which, in turn, can deduct the employee reimbursement from taxes.

Example: the room price does not include breakfast, and the extra charge to add breakfast for a traveling couple is 50 euros.

The promotion for the hotel trumpets FREE high speed internet access. In fact the envelope in which the desk clerk gives the guest his or her room card-key veritably shouts, "Free Internet Access!"

Business travelers generally carry laptop computers with them, and may spend a lot of time in their rooms working on their own laptop computers. Pleasure travelers (as we were) tend to leave their laptops at home to avoid the hassle at airport security checks, and the risk of loss of or damage to their computer; typically the pleasure traveler spends little time surfing the web and needs a computer only for a quick check of travel connections, to make a reservation at a restaurant, or the like. A pleasure traveler is unlikely to use a computer for more than a few minutes a day.

We have stayed at several hotels that have offered a complimentary (free) computer terminal off the lobby for the convenience of the hotel's guests. Indeed the 3-star hotel in Bologna that we had been staying in for several nights before traveling to Amsterdam offered such an arrangement.

The Schiphol Radisson Blu, which promotes itself as a 5-star hotel, has a bluetooth keyboard right in the guest room, which can convert the large television into an internet-connected computer terminal, certainly more convenient than a lobby computer. But it is NOT free. The guest can activate the computer by paying a fee, and the minimum activation time is a 24-hour period. The charge for the minimum activation time is 19.50 euro. A minor blip on an expense account is a 19.50 euro charge, but it is a major irritation to a pleasure traveler who wants to access the internet for ten minutes to check on an airline connection, and who cannot conveniently convert to the charge to a reimbursable and tax-deductible travel expense.

The hotel offers a sauna, a nice touch. But guests must wear bathing suits to enter the sauna, and the hotel does not offer rental of suitable garments. Visiting Amsterdam in January, it never had occurred to us that we should have to carry bathing suits with us; even had we been prepared with bathing suits, we should have had to pack them in our suitcases wet for the next leg of the journey. One wonders whether the sauna gets used by anyone but the hotel's own staff?

The rooms are spacious and reasonably quiet. The beds are comfortable. The bathrooms are well-appointed and spotlessly clean. The hotel is well suited to a business traveler, but is a very bad fit to the needs and desires of a traveler on vacation for pleasure.

We had to stop somewhere in Rotterdam, as our flight to Nairobi was scheduled at next day morning.
We've decided for Radisson and we weren't dissapointed.
As we left all our belongings at the airport luggage safe box, we needed some basic stuff.
All vanity kits, toothbrushes etc were promptly provided by the very friendly and helpful receptionist.
We arrived just on time to have some meal both at the Rodolpho's Bar Lounge or the Lighthouse restaurant. We opted for the latter.
Nice menu as for an airport hotel, very very nice wild mushroom soup, however try to avoid quesadillas form the main course menu. Cheap cheese, tasteless smoked turkey, served however with three nice sauces.
My wife had a nice Cesar salad with grilled chicken which was great.
For the dessert we had something from their starters menu, as we like figs and goat cheese in every kind of meal-our compliments to chef for this tiny wonders.
Spacious and comfortable bed for the night and huge bathtube was all we needed.
Since we had to leave for the early morning flight we've been provided with breakfast boxes.
\shuttle bus leaves every half an hour to the airport, one can wait in the lobby and watch the CCTV monitor, so there is no need to wait outside.
Definitely a place to be recommended.

It is quicker to get to Schiphol from city center than from this hotel. It takes about 15min by train that departs every 5min from Amsterdam Centraal. Hotel bus leaves hotel every 30min and it also takes about 15min to get to Schiphol. So you waste twice of time getting from hotel to city centre... Same on the way back... If you are lucky to catch hotel bus... If not you have to wait for the next one. I stayed 3 nights there so after first day experience travelling to city center for dinner I decided to not challenge it any more and have dinner at the hotel. Restoraunt is nicely laid out but food selection is poor and it is very expensive. And it took them 45 min to serve desert which was frozen piece of cheese cake... Paid 50 euros for no alkohol dinner. Rooms are outdated for 159 euro standard price with breakfast Not Included. Ordinary breakfast cost whopping 25 euros!!! I will try to avoid this hotel in the future because of value for money, location and service