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Amsterdam: Last Chance for $50 Rooms at CitizenM Amsterdam

jennm — 2009-02-09T16:14:26-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/citizenMlobby.jpg" class="top">These days, a good deal isn't hard to find, but that doesn't mean we're going to stop pointing them out to you. Kind of like how your mom always nags you to grow up and move out already no matter how many times you tell her to back off. Wednesday is the last day for you to take advantage of the 39 euros per night deal available from <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/CitizenM+Hotel+Amsterdam+Schiphol+Airport/local/1236">citizenM Amsterdam Airport</a>, which equals about $50 per night and is refreshingly uncomplicated. From the hotel: <blockquote>From February 4th to the 11th 25,000 rooms in the year of 2009 One room, any day of the year, is only 39 euros. </blockquote> Really, there's only so much hand-holding

Amsterdam: CitizenM is All Grown Up, Earns Its First Award

jennm — 2008-11-12T09:15:11-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/11725/citizenMlobby.jpg" class="top">This was perhaps the most hotly contested decision I have seen the judging panel have to make in the six years I have been involved in these awards. No, thats not a judge from Dancing with the Starsits Matt Turner, editor-in-chief of Sleeper magazine, which is a magazine about hotel design, development and architecture, not about boring stuff. The magazine recently awarded <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/CitizenM%20Hotels">CitizenM</a> hotels with the European Hotel Design Award of the Year, as well as awards in three other categories for innovation, technology and graphic design. We already knew guests <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/6/223019/210/hotels/CitizenM_Schiphol_You_Love_It_You_Want_Some_More_of_It">love the chain</a>, now it seems the rest of the world is catching on, too. Of course, this news just thrills CitizenM. Our team

Amsterdam: CitizenM Schiphol :: You Love It, You Want Some More of It

jennm — 2008-10-08T10:20:15-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/citizenmdoll_update.jpg" class="imgborder">My, my, you people waste no time rating a new hotel, do you? Citizen M's outpost at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/CitizenM+Hotel+Amsterdam+Schiphol+Airport/local/1236">Amsterdam Schiphol</a> airport hasn't even been open six months and you all rush to the Internets to talk about it. So what do you have to say about it? In short, you love it. Here are some of your <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g188590-d1126079-Reviews-CitizenM_hotel_Amsterdam_Airport-Amsterdam_Noord_Holland.html">choice words</a>: <blockquote> "Everything was clean, worked perfectly, HOT water, fluffy white pillows... and friendly, helpful staff." "The rooms are small, but well laid out so that the room feels bigger than it is." "If you don't mind a 20-minute train ride to get into the city, this is the place to stay in Amsterdam." "I wouldn't

Amsterdam: CitizenM Launches Social Network Thing for Moody People

Jenna — 2008-08-01T10:00:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/citizenmsocialnetwork_pic.png" class="imgborder"> Lately, we've been pondering the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/17/16043/7510/hotels/Hotels_and_Social_Networking_Sketchy_or_Seriously_Innovative_">utility, acceptance and sketch-potential</a> of social networks within hotels. It's not necessarily hotels' Facebook or MySpace pages we're concerned with here (although some hotels are doing good stuff with those things, and hooray for them!). We mean hotels who set up their own networks -- sort of like the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Pod+Hotel/local/189">Pod Hotel's</a> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/24/144612/104/hotels/Best_Geek_Hotels_in_the_World_2_0">Pod Community</a> Blog -- where people who are staying in a particular hotel at a given time can communicate with each other and find other same-time guests to meet up with, hang out with, or "et cetera" with. Will people buy into the concept? Will it turn out to be a sketchy Craiglist-esque collection of people advertising for

HOWTO :: Become a Hotel Test Sleeper

Jenna — 2008-07-31T11:01:15-05:00

When we checked out some of the first guest reviews of the new CitizenM hotel in Amsterdam, we noticed a couple of the contributions came from guests who had seen the property a bit early -- they had gotten the chance to stay overnight as "test-sleepers" before the June grand opening.

So, in other words, the hotel hired people to act as bed testers and stay overnight for free.

Seriously? The greatest job ever, maybe? Our calling? Your calling?

After the jump: how those lucky few scored gigs as hotel "test-sleepers" -- and how you can, too.