Older decor and smallish rooms. Nice bar, good restaurant. The price is reasonable. I will be back.

Stayed here for 6 nights during the recent snow and ice storm. My companion was down with pnuemonia, so we stayed put for warmth. This hotel is basic. The room we reserved on line was under rehab. I asked for a room with a sitting area. The last room on the top floor, furthest from the lobby, dining room, bar etc. was what I got. It was quiet and warm. There should be reserved parking area for hotel guests, spaces are at a premium most of the day and night. The bar is closed on weekends??? Dining is the same menu everyday, no specials, no variety of vegetables.etc. Breakfast is the same thing everyday, as well. They need to learn how to cook bacon, crispy, not fatty. Ech!!! This was my second stay here, and it is not what it used to be. The staff is rude at the reception, and too many shift changes in the dining room, during rush hour cause poor service and errors. Van de Valk needs to upgrade all their hotels, especilly the menus and add variety for long term guests. This place maybe okay for 1 night travelers, I don't think I will return for a third time. It used to be very good. Too Bad!!

Take it from a dutchie this hotel is well overpriced for a presumably 4* hotel. No air or minibar in the rooms, crap food that they deliver nearly cold in your room (after i had to order it at the restaurant itself; no menu in the room) young and incompetent staff and that all at a whopping 100 euros a night. Location is on a highwat so no things to do in the immediate surroundings. Stay here only if you have to, waste of money.

I'd agree and disagree with some of the comments here previously. Why, for example, would anyone construct a restaurant with picture window views of the A1 Amsterdam to Apeldoorn motorway? There's no question, in a Dutch context, it's in a pretty area - woods and inevitably lots of cycling tracks which they cater for. But the rooms are functional, spacious but ultimately lacking in contemporary style. Totally agree about the lack of a bar area and a minibar in the room; sometimes we just need to have a beer and be sociable and then maybe we'll eat....not that there is a choice once you're here.

The restaurant is enormous, and so perhaps hints at what they are expecting - lots of passing traffic, the place filled with passing summer travellers; the menu has many 'senior specials', again a reason why one third of the tables were filled early evening. I'd describe the food as ordinairy. And never, ever in my life have I been served four, that's FOUR, different types of potatoes with dinner; French fries, jacket potato, boiled skin-on potatoes and roesti. Please, I know there's a recession on, and spuds are cheap, but a little more imagination please! And no inquiry, like in Belgium, how I'd like my steak done. A large piece of meat arrived with more pink that I would have liked.

No complaints about the front desk service, friendly also in the restaurant.

And here's the irony: in the land of excellent 'fritjes' here they were 'vreselijk'. Soggy, tired, flavourless - so unappetesing I didn't finish them.