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A fairy-tale hotel in Haarlem TEXT: CHARLOTTE VAN HEK | PHOTOS: HOTEL STAATS AND DE RIPPER
Boutique hotel STAATS enchants. This intimate, newly opened city hotel combines a design setting with renowned hospitality, providing guests with a fullblown fairy tale-like experience. Hotel STAATS is a collaboration of hospitality professionals and design specialists. Helmed by Claudia van den Berg, the hotel is designed by Michel Ruijgrok from agency E.S.T.I.D.A, which specialises in hospitality design. “The idea to open a hotel initially came from him,” Van den Berg starts. “Ruijgrok designed STAAT’s adjacent restaurant De Ripper, and when this building went up for sale, we took our chance.” Van Den Berg brought years of hospitality experience at home and abroad to the hotel, ensuring guests want for nothing. The boutique hotel is located five minutes from the Grote Markt in Haarlem, and within 20 minutes you will find yourself on the Dam in Amsterdam. STAATS exudes a 44 | Issue 40 | April 2017
feeling of charm with authentic details in a warm colour palette, combined with luxurious materials, design classics, collection items, art, and quirky objects. Each room is an explosion of different colours and carries a different theme: something they share is their atmospheric and unique interior, as well as their luxurious facilities. Each room has a royal flat-screen TV, air-conditioning, a spacious bathroom with a large shower, and a separate toilet. The comfortable beds will guarantee sweet dreams. The restaurant next door, De Ripper, has long earned its stripes in Haarlem and beyond. Alongside serving eclectic dishes to hotel guests and the locals of Haarlem, De Ripper also serves a societal cause: educating young people whom, for whatever reason, have not finished their schooling. “That is a wonderful, win-win situation,” Van den Berg asserts: “Our guests’ culinary wishes enable the students to further their education and future, while our
guests can enjoy De Ripper’s exquisite food. And because we are a hotel and not a regular restaurant, the students gain experience in the hotel industry as well.” Boutique hotel STAATS only counts 21 rooms, an amount that perfectly maintains the intimate feeling of the hotel. “Our personal touch is everything,” Van den Berg concludes. “A hotel is made to fit a certain set of expectations, but STAATS fits all other expectations as well.”
For more information, please visit: www.hotelstaats.nl