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Charm and Character
A pre-war Christian orphanage magnificently transformed into a genuinely styled ultra-modern Dutch minimalist property, every nook and cranny is useful, pleasing to the eye and supremely comfortable.
Straightforward bleisure
With a number of hip common areas, meeting rooms and event venues, including the must-try PARK café and restaurant, the Arena Amsterdam is a place for guests and locals to meet, connect, sing and dance together.
Fun Fact
Amsterdam East is home to the Youseum – not quite a museum – more of an immersive kaleidoscopic experience with 15 rooms that take you through 25 different highly instagramable experiences, featuring you and what it means to see and be seen!
An ingeniously refurbished historic building located in the hip up-and-coming eastern part of Amsterdam
Overlooking dreamy Oosterpark, this once upon a time orphanage is now an exquisite and inspiring blend of olden times and contemporary Dutch minimalism. The high ceilings, wooden beams and cast-iron rails remain from the original building. The glass-walled “PARK Café restaurant”, modern decor and inspiring meeting studios lend the property its thoroughly modern feel. The on-site chapel is adapted and transformed to create unforgettable events that often bring locals and guests together, as do the hotel's common areas purposefully designed to elicit conversation and connection.
Bedrooms
140
Meeting Rooms
7
Maximum Capacity: 1100
Maximum Capacity: 1100
Other Facilities
Parking, Bar, Restaurants
Accommodation
Rooms at Hotel Arena come with high ceilings, large windows, sloping walls, wooden beams and original ornaments. All rooms are different but each room has a flat-screen TV, air conditioning, seating area and private bathroom.
Restaurants & Bars
The PARK Café-Restaurant is a full-on experience for guests. The all-day hotspot is now divided into a lounge, bistro & restaurant area. The breakfast buffet is incredible, with salads (grilled vegetables, lentils, couscous), smoked fish, mini waffles, sinful cake and prosecco, as well as more conventional dishes: good-quality cereals and preserves, bread, eggs, sausages, bacon, fruit, smoothies and more. With good dishes to share, an indoor herb garden helps provide fresh, invigorating salads.
Meetings & Events
There is a set of tastefully decorated meeting rooms, which lead to a private terrace on the park side. It has several exclusive spaces for large events, but also for smaller meetings. The historic building was renovated in 2017 and therefore has a huge variety of modern meeting rooms with monumental spaces. All of our spaces are available for corporate and private use.
Leisure Facilities
The hotel has bicycles available for the guests to move around. These can be acquired through the staff which are important pillars of sympathy in the hotel. It is also located in a historic building that used to function as an orphanage and home for the elderly, and thus an old orphanage chapel has an atmospheric function, contributing to a ballroom, which is quite charming.
"We had a lovely stay, easy access to the city center , helpful staff and lovely on site restaurant!"