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Budget-friendly business hotels

While luxury remains important for some events, many meetings in Amsterdam have other priorities when it comes to accommodation. Accessibility, convenience, sustainability, atmosphere – all these can add more value to your delegates’ stay, and can be achieved without breaking the bank. Here are some of the city’s most budget-friendly hotels, none of which scrimp on comfort or character.

Hotel Casa

Hotel Casa Amsterdam
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Prioritise atmosphere and sustainability at this vibrant hotel near Amstel Station in the East of Amsterdam. Hotel Casa is a staple in Amsterdam, providing not only comfortable accommodation for all guests but also affordable rooms for students. Since 1957 it has maintained this commitment to social and ecological impact (it’s also part of the Green Hotel Club). Event guests are also common here thanks to many flexible meeting and workspaces. Plus, there’s plenty of bang for your buck here with dining and drinks at the EAST restaurant and lively rooftop bar, GAPP. Location-wise, Casa is nearest of this list to RAI and other southerly venues, but particularly close to venues in Amsterdam East, including 

Hotel Casa Amsterdam | Eerste Ringdijkstraat 4

The Social Hub Amsterdam City

The Social Hub Amsterdam City
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Another lively haven for guests and students is The Social Hub. Their City location is also a stone’s throw from Hotel Casa, parallel with the Amstel river and nearby many easterly and central venues and hotels such as Capital C or Hyatt Regency. Another multi-functioning building, it boasts a variety of facilities to accommodate everyone under its roof – including various community spaces, a gym and bike hire. Multiple meeting and working spaces also mean your guests can meet in house where needed. The Social Hub has you covered!

The Social Hub Amsterdam City | Wibautrstraat 129

The Social Hub West

Interior of Social Hub Amsterdam West meeting room with chairs and presentation board with "The beach is boring" written on it, in front of large window showing parking spaces outside.

What’s more, The Social Hub offers a second location over in Amsterdam West. Here you can count on the same range of facilities to guests on the other side of the city – and a faster connection to the airport. Similarly affordable rooms span from comfortable but basic to four-star deluxes, and once again your guests can also take advantage of strong sustainability credentials: both Social Hub locations are also part of the sustainably certified Green Hotel Club. Location-wise, your guests will also be well placed for westerly event venues such as De MeerVaart or Amsterdam Congress Center – or anywhere accessible via the very nearby A10 ring road.

The Social Hub Amsterdam West | Van de Sande Bakhuijzenstraat 4

Volkshotel

Image from Volkshotel

Opposite The Social Hub Amsterdam City lies another buzzing, progressive hotel concept that packs a cultural punch. A self-described “hotel of the people”, Volkshotel attracts all sorts across its various spaces. 9-to-5ers pack out its meeting rooms and ground-floor Werkplaats working space, which becomes a cosy hangout after hours. Clubbers, diners and drinkers flock to basement cocktail bar Doka and top-floor bar-restaurant Canvas. Bathers look out over Amsterdam East from the rooftop sauna and hot tubs. And hotel guests take it all in: flitting between all these and the quirkily decorated, budget-friendly rooms.

Volkshotel | Wibautstraat 150

WestCord Art Hotel

Interior of bedroom in Westcord Art Hotel, with impressionistic painting of Amsterdam canalhouses behind bed.

Tucked away in the cosy Spaarndammerbuurt, WestCord Art Hotel presents no-nonsense accommodation with a cultural focus. Every room boasts a unique artwork behind the bed, complementing the artistic offerings in the nearby Westerpark, where the Westergasfabriek cultural centre offers numerous activities and attractions – as well as some event venues such as Fabrique des Lumières. And the hotel itself is artfully equipped for the value its rooms provide, with a meeting room, fitness suite, terraced bar-restaurant and even an outdoor pool for the warmer months. All proof that value is about more than star-ratings.

WestCord Art Hotel Amsterdam | Spaarndammerdijk 302

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