Hotel V fizeaustraat: now open

Hotel V Fizeaustraat: 4.5 stars, 91 rooms, beautiful design, an event space, parking, and the bustling Lobby Fizeaustraat restaurant on the ground floor

Win a meal at The Lobby Fizeaustraat (Instagram Contest)

All of this planning and building and prepping and meeting about The Lobby Fizeaustraat, and we need a break! So let’s do something fun. Head over to The Lobby’s Instagram, where you will find our Photo of the Week contest. Tag @thelobby_hotelv in your visits to The Lobby Nesplein from this point forward (for breakfast, lunch, […]

The Lobby Fizeaustraat Website is LIVE

We are pleased and excited and over the moon to finally have the website for our new restaurant, The Lobby Fizeaustraat, up and running. Check it out: http://www.thelobbyfizeaustraat.nl We will be updating the website soon with a full food and drinks menu and lots of teaser photos of the kinds of dishes you can expect […]

Coming Soon: Hotel V & The Lobby Fizeaustraat

Big things coming for Hotel V in 2016… HOTEL V FIZEAUSTRAAT: OPENING IN 2016 Close to Amstel Station and overlooking the gorgeous Amstel skyline, Hotel V is hard at work on the opening of our newest V establishment. With 4-and-a-half stars, it is an ambitious hotel and restaurant/bar concept that will breathe life into […]

What to do in Amsterdam in January

We know, we know: you partied too much in the festive season, and now you’re all “detox, yoga, no drinking for the month of January” etc, etc, etc. We’ve heard it all before. We applaud your new-found sense of health & fitness, but that’s no excuse for staying indoors and being boring. Therefore we present […]

This weekend in Amsterdam (Sept 6 & 7, 2014)

It’s Wednesday! Who is looking forward to the weekend? *Raises hand.* Well we are all in luck, because this weekend is chock full of things to do (Amsterdam Fringe fest, anyone?). In fact, let’s start there. The Amsterdam Fringe festival will be running in locations all over the city until the 14th of September. Not Dutch-speaking? No problem! […]

Amsterdam Terrace Lounging, Part 2

Two years ago we blogged about some of the nicest terraces to drop in on for a drink in the sun (that post is here). But with this sudden bout of lovely weather, we are once again inspired to grab our friends and head for the nearest terrace. So here is another list. This list, […]

2011 Wrap-Up: A Year in the Life of a Hotel

Looking back, I have to say that it’s been a pretty amazing year for the Hotel V. Not always great, not always easy, but amazing nonetheless. Here is a look back at the year for us in photos: (Part One of the Bird saga here, Part Two here.) So in short, I guess you could […]

Delicious Evening at BoCinq

This is a guest post from our stagiare Zosia, one of her last projects before she leaves us as stagiare! *** On Wednesday, the 23th of November we were invited to taste and enjoy the new Winter Menu at “Bo5” Restaurant. As soon as we entered the restaurant we were enthusiastically welcomed by the restaurant’s […]

What to do in Amsterdam in November

Oh, November. I have been waiting for you! If you are a word-nerd like me, then we have an exciting month ahead of us! Not a party month, but a perfect month for huddling in warm venues out of the cold, and listening, speaking, and writing. NaNoWriMo (1-30 November): This hard-to-say and hard-to-do event hits the […]