Where to stay in Amsterdam

An interior designer's dream and a grand neo-gothic pile in the Dutch capital.

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"Welcome to wonderland," says Caroline Shearing in The Daily Telegraph. "Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has taken the adventures of Lewis Carroll's Alice as the inspiration for the hotel's fun and theatrical interiors. "Imaginative touches include chandeliers suspended from over-sized bells in reception, high-backed chairs reminiscent of tulip heads and an entrance way lined with miniature doors." The bedrooms are thankfully calmer, with Delft blue colours and "wonderfully comfy" king-sized beds, along with television, iPod dock and, "in a nod to the hotel's former guise as a library", a selection of books.

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