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5 de setembro de 2023
First, the good! I stayed at Hotel Doria in early September for my first trip to the 'Dam. I booked it due to a few factors: its price (reasonable for the location), convenience to Amsterdam's main attractions plus Centraal train station (you're on Damstraat), and the restaurant underneath. I thought that'd be a good option for an evening meal before my early flight home if I wanted something simple and faff-free. It delivers on all of these fronts. The room was clean (a lick of paint perhaps needed in places, but clean). The bed was comfortable, and someone'd be in to make it up and replace your towels and binbag daily. The staff bumped this rating from a three to a four, as the receptionists were lovely and helpful - reception is manned 24/7, good for those who have flights at unsociable hours like I did. The bathroom was bright and well-kept with a powerful shower: cubicle was nice and roomy too! If you like a quiet room, it's pretty good around the back of the hotel (and higher up) so it's not so close to Damstraat, but you will have the air-con unit whirring. Doria are in the middle of installing it in all of their rooms, so if that kind of thing bothers you perhaps ask for a room that doesn't have a unit yet. I don't mind the whirring myself, especially as it wasn't competing with any other noise and it kept the room at a good temperature, but there weren't any controls to switch it off. The breakfast relies mainly on cold food - this was ideal for me, my time is better spent sightseeing and exploring than a leisurely full English, but worth noting if a cooked breakfast is one of your must-haves. (I did eat at the restaurant - I'll review that separately - but you get a 10% discount if you're also staying at the hotel.) The downsides didn't hugely affect my stay, the pros outweighed the cons, but are still worth fellow travellers bearing in mind if they're considering the Doria. The single room I had was small and narrow, so is better suited for able-bodied visitors travelling light who use the hotel purely to sleep and shower. In terms of accessibility there is a lift that excludes the fifth floor, but in the room I had there really wasn't a lot of room to manoeuvre. If you removed the tea station, you'd be able to set up a small laptop on the desk if you need a workspace, but there wouldn't be much room to move. You can't shift the desk closer to the powerpoint either, so when it came to plugging the kettle in, I needed to prop it on my suitcase or the chair as the cable was too short. The tea station and mineral water isn't restocked (something we take for granted in the UK admittedly) which may be worth the Doria putting on their information leaflet even if it's a service offered at an extra cost. If fellow Brits are at risk of shrivelling up without their fix of leaf-water, bring some Tetley in your suitcase, or alternatively you can pay for a cuppa at the restaurant and bring it to your room (2.70 euros). All in all, Doria m
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