QO Hotel

Amsterdam


Easy on the eyes and with high-tech and sustainability cred, QO wows with its stylish rooms controlled by iPad and featuring blonde wood and black matte fittings. Carpets are 100% recycled yarn from fishing nets, there's a rooftop greenhouse and the hotel exterior is fitted with energy-conserving sensor thermal panels, which open when you enter your room and close again when you exit.

Its out-of-the-way location is not ideal, but it's less than 10 minutes to Centraal Station on the metro; Spaklerweg Station is across the road. There's a hip lobby, restaurant and bar, and bike hire available.


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