Nice hotel. Decent room! Clean. Beautiful hotel with lots of character.
We booked two days before through a hotel bookings site on internet and got a good price.
The hotel is in the middle of the city-center of Leeuwarden. within two minutes there are dozens of bars, shops and restaurants. Parking your car is 12,50 per night.

Rooms were just avarage, but that's Europe for you. I loved the pictures we took there. Some people said the service was not good. But I was the bride on that day, I guess no one would be mean to a bride, so I had a good time. And the location was perfect for us, cause city hall was just acrss the road.

The hotel is smack in the centre of town so you really can't get a better location. But indeed the rooms have no character (totally modern) and there is little of the old flavour left except in large common rooms. Service is not fantastic especially compared to standards in the Netherlands. They are not awfully eager to help. Parking is indeed an issue so we ended up leaving our car in a public parking. Nonetheless we enjoyed our stay. We got a suite for a decent price and breakfast in the garden was extremely pleasant. I would probably go back again.

We stayed in the "double deluxe room with shower", previously called the "business double" I think. It means you get a reasonable sized, characterless modern room in the annex.

There are only 8 parking spaces at the hotel which means you are more than likely going to end up at the local car park, although the nearest one is closed on Sundays. Make sure you don't get charged when you didn't park at the hotel - they tried to charge me for 7 days when I only managed to park there for three.

They say they will keep things in a safe but it seems a bit hit and miss as to whether there would be anyone with a key to the safe on the day we left, so in the end we took our things out of the safe 3 days early to be certain we could leave with our possessions.

When we arrived before our room was ready we left out luggage in a room which they locked which was fine. When we wanted to leave our luggage until the afternoon on the day of departure they used the same room, but didn't lock it. I pointed out that it wasn't very safe and they said they will keep an eye on it. Not very encouraging. We went back for another coat later and there was no-one in reception so we wandered into the "safe" room and got our coat.

Breakfast was quite good but totally self service buffet.

Overall, the location is good with some good restaurants nearby, the room comfortable and large, but the service a bit second rate. Oh, and they charge your credit card with the full amount when you book!