Amsterdam’s best eco-friendly hotels
QO Hotel Amsterdam
From covered courtyards with subtropical foliage to hotels that entirely run on the Dutch winds: we’ve rounded up four of our favorite sustainable hotels in Amsterdam.
Hotel Jakarta
The club that brought us ss Rotterdam and Hotel New York in Rotterdam have set foot in Amsterdam. At Java Island, the exact location where ages ago the trade ships used to leave for the Dutch East Indies. Hotel Jakarta is entirely constructed of wood, glass and concrete, with a huge subtropical courtyard (done by Hortus Botanicus) as ultimate eye catcher. Its 200 rooms are warmly decorated with Indonesian influences and indoor balconies offer scenic views on the IJ river. For Indonesian and International dishes get a table at Cafe Jakarta and for cocktails with a view head to the Malabar on the eighth floor.
Hotel Jakarta
Conscious Hotel Westerpark
Whenever TIME Magazine tips you in their annual 100 Greatest Places you’re probably doing something well. Conscious Hotel Westerpark is the first and only Dutch hotel that runs entirely on wind energy. Ironically enough it’s the grounds where once the Westergas factory used to sit. The 89 eco-design rooms all come with sustainably purchased and (where possible) recycled interiors. On the menu of the hotel’s restaurant Bar Kantoor (from the team we know from MOER and Sticky Fingers) nothing but organic snacks and drinks.
Conscious Hotel Westerpark
Qo Hotel
Brand new QO proves that sleek design and sustainability go perfectly well together. Towering 21 floors the hotel is located in the heart of the Amstelkwartier (around the corner from George Marina) and has quite a few technical features when it comes to sustainability. It houses a high-tech greenhouse on the roof with over 5000 vegetables, flowers and herbs, it has its own water circuit and the entire exterior of the hotel is basically a so-called ‘intelligent facade’. This works as follows: each room has its own steel panel on the outside that, whenever the room is empty, responds to the outside climate. In cold the panels insulate and whenever its sunny they tilt so that more light and heat can enter the rooms. This together with the 300 stylish rooms and the spectacular rooftop bar Persijn make up for the somewhat distant location.
QO Hotel
Yotel Amsterdam Noord
After Schiphol Airport, tech hotel chain Yotel opened its second hotel in Amsterdam. Yotel Amsterdam Noord is all electric with (like QO) its own water purification system and a big part of the construction comes from recycled concrete. Yotel wouldn't be Yotel if they weren't doing things full-on tech, so as a Yotel guest in Noord can expect your own adjustable Smartbed as well as a 'Technowall' with mood light and TV that allows you to stream your own photos and videos.
Yotel Amsterdam
