To Bike or To Scooter? That is the Amsterdam Hotel Question.
It's Amsterdam Week over at our sister site Jaunted, so we're going a little Dutch ourselves. In Amsterdam, hotels don't just have one or two bikes available for rent. They have a whole rack ready and waiting out front. Biking is a way of life, it's how you commute, have fun, exercise and socialize. Therefore it's pretty easy to lay down the extra 13 Euros to take out one of the Hotel JL No. 76's bright orange Beicks and spend the day getting purposefully lost in Amsterdam's web of canals and bike lanes.
The Beicks used are standard Dutch city bikes, with wider tires for navigating cobblestones and tram tracks, but outfitted with a big black basket perfect for toting home wedges of cheese and bouquets of flowers and pairs of wooden clogs and bottles of Amstel or Grolsch—aka the makings of a pretty good time.
We rented one ourselves for two days last week and found it not only a smooth ride in no need of maintenance, but also easy to pick out from a crowd of other bikes (and there will always be a crowd of bikes in Amsterdam).
If you're more adventurous or just enjoy going faster, the hotel also rents out a similarly vibrant orange Vespa scooter at 49.50 Euro per day. Just remember that you've got to pay for gas if you go that route, so maybe pedal power it is, hmm?
Tomorrow we'll take you inside the Hotel JL No. 76 with a full photo gallery and video room tour!
Disclosure: We stayed at the JL as a guest of Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions (@VisitHolland), but rest assured that all photos and opinions presented are completely our own.
[Photos: HotelChatter]
Comments (0)
Post a CommentReturn to » To Bike or To Scooter? That is the Amsterdam Hotel Question.
Join the conversation!