Hotel Papendal is part of the National Sports Centre of the Netherlands. By car it is about 15 minutes from the city centre of Arnhem. I was ther for a conference. The hotel has a 4-star and a 3-star wing. Make sure that you book a room in the 4-star side if you want more than the basics.

I stayed for a business meeting at Papendal and I booked a 3-star room as I didn't know about the 3-star or 4-star choice. It turned out to be a basic, small room, a bit like a boarding school. Free internet. Breakfast was excellent with freshly baked eggs but also with a lot of healthy choices.

Very impressed with the high class and modern decorations. It has exapnsive grassland for mini golf, strolling and cycling. The double Silver Room is spacious and stylishly designed. The lounge has very nice atmosphere and delicious food. The Restaurant 20 28 has very nice and modern decor with deliously cooked breakfast and expensive set meals (EUR30.50), overlooking the grassland. The hotel also has relaxation facilities, such as sauna, steam room, and fitness gym. It also has conference facilities, with conducive rooms for presentations and discussions. The only disadvantage is that it is tucked rather far in from the main road. To reach the hotel, take bus 105 from Arnhem Centraal bus station for a 10-minute ride, then walk for 1km. This hotel is about 5km from the famous De Hoge Veluwe National Park, which houses the famous Kroller-Moller Mesuem. Either rent a bike from the hotel for EUR10 per day or take bud 105 for about EUE3.20 to reach the Park. After that, you will need to cycle a few km to the Museum using the free white bicycle in the Park. I enjoyed this hotel very much in The Netherlands.

Hotel is very clean with a nice fitness room in a green silent area. Breakfast is pretty good. We were here only for one night relaxing after a long trip.

The design of the hotel looks like the mausoleum, the design of the rooms is interesting for a basic 2 stars hotel; it feels like visiting the boy scouts.

This is not a hotel, not even good for 3 stars. The rooms have only small beds, with each a to small very thin blanket. Lightning is poor, and the heating-system did not work after 10 pm. The room and the hotel in winter are very very colt. For a lot of money they give no value at all. If you like to have breakfast at a long table with others and no privacy go to this place - Holland op zijn smalst - . Remind: you have to leave at 10 am in the morning. This is not a hotel, but a youth hotel. Don't go to this nightmare. Bad bad bad. This hotel reminded me to some of the Chinese Communist Party Hotels in Beijing from years ago; poor, colt, high-nosy employees, not facilitated for normal hotel-guests and in fact they show if they do not want you at all …. but only the money to cover the losses.