Inside Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Amsterdam

Bar the Tailor interior astatine Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Amsterdam

Amsterdam beautifully blends its affluent past with innovation and stylishness. So it makes consciousness that visitors prime a edifice that artfully reflects this dichotomy. Featuring its ain unsocial operation of past and modern luxury, Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Amsterdam makes for an perfect “Venice of the North” stay. 

Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Amsterdam

What was initially a elemental java house, opened successful 1856 by Adolph Wilhelm Krasnapolsky, is present a luxuriously renovated, 402 country hotel, the beforehand façade of which overlooks the humanities halfway of Amsterdam, Dam Square, and the National Royal Palace. On the backmost side, rooms are perched supra the picturesque Oudezijds Voorburgwal canal wherever visitor-filled circuit boats glide past. 

Back successful the day, arsenic Krasnapolsky’s small cafe´ grew successful popularity, helium added rooms for rent, yet rebuilding the abstraction into a modern hotel, blending 55 buildings. Today, the edifice is portion of the Anantara Hotels & Resorts portfolio, of which indulgent hospitality is de rigueur. At Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, that indulgence is illustrated successful precocious extremity cuisine, a pampering spa, and galore small amenities that astonishment and delight guests of each ages. On this visit, the lobby and on-site restaurants and barroom teemed with multi-generation families, couples, and concern people, each seeming to find contentment with the hotel’s lukewarm and welcoming offerings. (Rumor has it that French President Emmanuel Macron was a caller guest.) 

Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Amsterdam Grand Deluxe Room

Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Amsterdam Grand Deluxe Bathroom

Rooms and suites are spacious, and modern successful décor and amenities (who doesn’t emotion a Nespresso espresso machine?), and beds and linens are a measurement supra the modular European variety. Our suite featured a afloat eating table, aggregate televisions, bottled water, aerial conditioning that worked (IFKYK) and abstracted surviving country with pullout couch, perfect for larger families. (As is the expansive Presidential Suite which features a backstage jacuzzi.)

Choose a canal oregon Dam Square view; either provides a peek to the progressive vibrancy conscionable extracurricular the edifice doors. As does a model spot astatine lobby-located Grand Café Krasnapolsky and its Champagne Room, featuring the loveliest enactment of the finest bubbles by the vessel oregon glass. Grab a flute, and beryllium astatine the model barroom to radical watch. Or indulge successful accepted day beverage with each the accoutrements. In the evening, task into the sleekly illuminated interior of Bar the Tailor (named for Mr. Krasnapolsky’s assemblage arsenic a tailor) to bask expertly crafted cocktails.

Grand Café Krasnapolsky Champagne Room

Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Bar the Tailor Patio

Those seeking a genuinely memorable culinary acquisition request lone measurement down the lobby hallway to the sumptuous, one-Michelin-starred White Room. (The sanction is derived from the restaurant’s archetypal 1885 iteration - ‘De Witte Zaal.’) White Room is apt the oldest Amsterdam edifice successful its archetypal authorities and looks conscionable arsenic it did successful the 19th century—elegant, and inviting. But Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky’s astir elaborate culinary offering has to beryllium its complimentary breakfast, served wrong the stunning Wintergarden, a 19th period solid enclosed interior plot wherever cocoa fountains and freshly squeezed orangish foodstuff travel freely. There is thing for each palate, from pastries, to meats and cheeses, made-to-order omelets, Asian dumplings, pancakes, Shakshuka, and caller fruits, perfect for cocoa fountain dipping.

Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Wintergarden. Photo by Dan Miller

Work-off your indulgent meal with a locomotion astir town. Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky is ideally situated for exploration. All the large sites are wrong casual strolling distance: Rijksmuseum, Anne Frank House, the Van Gogh Museum, etc. Ask the concierge for assistance successful securing hard-to-get reservations, but ideally, reserve weeks earlier your travels. Several fashionable sites publication months successful advance. And if you situation to articulation the bike-riding throngs (Amsterdam is location to much bicycles than residents), the edifice offers motorcycle rentals. 

After a time of exploration, reward yourself with a pampering attraction astatine the hotel’s Anantara Spa. Small yet sumptuous, the abstraction features co-ed infrared sauna, Swedish sauna, and steam, arsenic good arsenic a beauteous outdoor plot and sunroom successful which to relax.

Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Spa Entrance

Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Spa Interior

Finally, the adept work is worthy noting. It’s nary concealed that the hospitality manufacture has suffered a spot successful caller years; staffing has been an contented worldwide. But Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky seems not to person missed a bushed with its attentive beforehand desk, concierge, edifice and housekeeping staffs that served to marque this impermanent consciousness invited and appreciated.

Photos courtesy of Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky unless otherwide noted.