Like any good modern hotel, the WiFi at the JL No. 76 is free and fast. Just get a code at the front desk for each of the devices you intend to log on, and you're golden. Similarly, they're keen to get guests of their 39 rooms out and moving, so bike and Vespa rentals are no problem (for a small extra fee).
Forgot your laptop? Whatever—ask reception to use an iPad and don't neglect to charge your iPod on the bedside docking station.
Moving on to the big features, each room comes complete with a Nespresso coffee machine, flat-screen TV, DVD player (reception has a complimentary DVD library!), all-natural COCO-MAT beds, huge windows and modern design elements that aren't overwhelming (check out the custom accept wallpaper derived from enlarged images of hand embroidery). Upgrading to an executive room for something like 10-15 Euro more per night scores an extra usually only found in super high-price hotels: a jacuzzi bathtub with a built-in flat screen TV. We're not ashamed to say that instead of spending a Saturday night out on the town, we stayed under the bubbles watching the BBC.
Downstairs in the lobby, the casual cool environment continues with the addition of modern artwork and an honor bar. Take what you want—glasses of wine, soda, beer, whatever—and mark it down yourself to be charged later. Don't think of cheating though; the security cameras see all. Pretty soon the hotel's back garden will open, and then the big chain hotels of a few blocks over will be truly quaking in their wooden clogs.
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: Cynthia Drescher for HotelChatter]
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