Description: The location
Haarhuis Hotel is located in Arnhem, opposite the station. The famous Corn Market, with its many terraces and restaurants is 5 minutes walk and shops Rijnstraat with an 8 minutes walk. Located exactly at a corner on a busy intersection..
Parking
You can park at the door. It costs € 2.00 per hour during the day, but from 18.00 hours is free. The many alterations to the station there are a number of streets closed. I did not succeed to park at the door with my car, so I chose to enter the parking garage under the station. A day ticket (24 hours) costs € 12.00, the garage is € 1.80 per hour. You only just across the street.
Hotel
I arrived late on Monday night, but there was much activity in the hotel and the reception. At the reception people were very friendly and they spoke Dutch, German and English. After I had reported I had the room key (plastic card). Haarhuis hotel belongs to the Best Western chain. It is a 4 * hotel (at least officially, I found it rather a 3 * plus) and this year celebrates its 90th anniversary.
The room
From the reception I was sent to the elevator, which is past the lobby. My room was on the second floor. At the end of the lobby, I had two steps down to the elevator to come. For me, the effect of an elevator is gone if there is no possibility to use a walker, wheelchair or rolling suitcase into the elevator. I had to lug around here, not a problem for me, but I can imagine that for older people it’s a problem. The elevator is very old and every time you had the feeling that you got stuck somewhere halfway (but that never happened).
Once on the second floor was very easy to find my room. Although room a very big word, because it was not so great. 3x3 m, there was a single right against the wall, a cupboard and a desk on the left and there was a chair with a small table by the window. The carpet is dark blue. The first thing I noticed was the enormous heat in the room. I immediately open the windows and in the closet I found a fan. On the wall is a mounted TV. The bed was fine, the mattress was a thin mattress, so you slept a little softer. The first night because of the enormous heat I slept very badly, fortunately the weather was worse later in the week.
The bathroom was very large in proportion, black and white checkered tiles, a shower, toilet and sink. Some things could use a facelift, but it was clean.
In the room you had the opportunity to use the Internet. This, however, you must ask reception (goes through your credit card or you buy a voucher) and it costs € 8.00 per hour. I found this a rather expensive, so I have not used it.
Breakfast
Breakfast is from 02.00 hours until 10.00 hours. Fantastic service, cannot say otherwise. The breakfast had a bit scarce, there were different kinds of bread and rolls, fruit bowl, two types of muesli with yoghurt, different kinds of fillings and scrambled or boiled eggs. They have also on a hot plate a jug with hot water and a pot of coffee from a machine and you could get orange juice.
Service
At the reception you could sign up for a sports massage. These cost € 25.00 for person per half hour. In your room is a laundry bag, if you want something dry cleaned or washed. After two days, my bedding changed (by the early hours of course I was back in time in the hotel and then had the cleaners usually come). The towels were changed every day. Find a shoeshine machine downstairs at the elevator, the room you have a little shoe polish thing that you can use to shine your shoes (shoe shine). The cleaners were very friendly. From the reception on Tuesday, someone came over to bring a gift of Rituals, a hand massage unit, very attentive. The lobby was often a large bowl of green apples that you could get.
Price
When I was there, it was quite pricey. I paid € 480.00 for 4 nights and € 0.60 city tax per night for a single room. Double rooms are from € 160.00 per night.
My opinion
The hotel was close to the places I had to work. The hotel was ok. If you enter than it looks neat, but I found my room really small. Usually you get a double room for single use. The room was hot (in the hall was cool, but the room was stuffy), when I came back, I often put a chair between the door, so the coolness of the corridor went a bit in my room. The breakfast was a bit disappointing, but it can also come simply because it was too early to enjoy it. The service in the hotel is fine, the people very friendly. The price I found on the high side.
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