A New Amsterdam Hotel is a Haven From the Crowds
It may be a contender for the most beautiful city in Europe, but Amsterdam is often anything but zen. Stepping out of the central rail station and along its canal-side streets, you’re often in a throng.
With all that chaos, those crowds, the cavorting, it can be hard to imagine a moment of peace and quiet in the center of Amsterdam. But just off Dam Square, one of the city’s busiest, is a new hotel that is practically a fortress of calm. That hotel, Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, is the latest subject of our column on exciting new hotels, Room Key.
The 402-room property has its origins in the middle of the 19th century when an immigrant tailor, Adolph Wilhelm Krasnapolsky, slowly turned his popular restaurant across from the royal palace into a hotel spanning multiple buildings. Over the decades the hotel would change hands and undergo a variety of refreshes until it ended up today in the hands of Anantara, the luxury arm of Minor Hotels, a large hotel group originating in Thailand. Since it first burst into Europe in 2017, the group has rapidly expanded, adding properties in Rome, Nice, the Algarve, Budapest, and more. Less than a year ago it unveiled its update to the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky.