The Hoxton Lloyd Amsterdam City Centre East

Nice room

This is a beautiful hotel with lovely, friendly staff. Our room was great! The breakfast was 10/10. We would definitely stay here again.

I don't think I've ever written this negative of a review before. This hotel is a quirky (one might say weird) place with a retro vibe. The front desk clerk said it was a renovated reform school for boys. Each room has a different decor, is a different size, but the two we saw were just not what you expect for a hotel. My room was so small I couldn't put my suitcase on the floor. The closet was a metal pole with a drawer beneath it, but the nightstand was up against the drawer so I couldn't use it. My friend's room must have been the communal shower. Her bedroom walls were covered in old bathroom tiles and there were three doors, one to the sink, one to the shower, one to the toilet, each the size of a small closet. When we said we wouldn't stay, the desk clerk offered us "other rooms" but we found the place too depressing. Maybe others would find it fun. There were a number of families playing games in the lobby livingroom. We had paid up front for two rooms for almost a week. No refund or offer to compensate us in any way except to offer us a different room, which was likely to be just as weird (although I suppose it could've been bigger). I thought the photos on the website were completely misleading.

Hoxton Lloyd was o.k. travelling with our 2 kids we had a studio room, which was built into the attic of the building. The studio was spacious, but dark, since it only had 2 small windows in the roof and lights had to be switched on at any time of the day. The room was generally too warm, particularly during the night, since opening the windows was not an option due to the noise from neighbouring venues and the air condition at the entrance of the room did not impact 2/3rds of the studio. The studio fits 4 people with ease, but the bath room is in comparison tiny (1 sink, a shower and a toilet in a small room). A When it comes to cleanliness there was also room for improvement as various parts of the studio were dusty. The breakfast was ok, but more representative of a 3 Star hotel than the price level of the Hoxton group of hotels. I am not sure about the coffee consumption of other guests, but the hotel handed out vouchers for "barrista" coffee, which limited the number of coffee, which was not a filter coffee to 1 per person. This seemed weird at the price point of Hoxton.

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