Amsterdam Gets a Second CitizenM

May 4, 2009 at 8:59 AM | by Jenna | Comments (0)

Last summer marked the debut of citizenM hotels, a funky new affordable boutique brand whose first property was birthed at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. We hit up the hotel's opening party, spent a night inside and watched the place closely all the way to the day it won its very first award. And now, just under a year later, we're happy to announce the debut of the world's second citizenM property: the citizenM Amsterdam City.

Located on Prinses Irenestraat in Amsterdam's financial district (between the World Trade Centre and city center), the property has a major focus on art: "an ultra large beachy image" by Dutch artist Elspeth Diederix adorns the building's fa�ade, and Andy Warhol's portrait of Queen Beatrix is displayed in the lobby.

The 215 rooms have the same sorts of features we saw in the Schiphol Airport location:

High-tech, ultra-compact and identical, all of [the rooms] have wall-to-wall windows, power rain showers, extra-large king-size beds and the sleek, spot-on design that mobile citizens have happily become accustomed to.
From mood lighting to in-room music, from free movies-on-demand to the alarm clock, everything in the room is programmable with just one device that will thrill even the most cynical gadget junkie: the touch screen Mood Pad, exclusively developed and designed by technology partner Philips.

Also, those rooms have actually been prefabricated off-site in a factory, then stacked on top of the ground floor (which, by the way, features a 24/7 food and beverage outlet) to reduce environmental impact and cut costs — which, it seems, is reflected in the room rate: rates for this evening are around $131 USD, with prices going down to $110 the week of May 18th.

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