Beds are canopied, continuing the romantic styling and opulence of the public areas

The bedrooms are large, as is the furniture within them. Beds are enormous and very comfortable, rooms being large enough for them to be canopied. This continues the opulence of the public areas, allowing the bedhead to be richly curtained. Bedhead lights are similarly turned into grand be-tasselled statements.

Giant armoires contain ample drawer and hanging space, as well as televisions and minibars, tea and coffee making facilities, whilst the wardrobes that are integrated within the armoires house irons and ironing boards. Unfortunately wardrobe hanging rails are positioned curiously high, looking almost as if the robe was designed without the drawers beneath that raise its height. Perhaps the drawers were an afterthought when it was realised that the small desks did not have enough drawer space but if so, it has had the unfortunate effect of lifting the hanging rails high enough as to present difficulties for those of us vertically challenged.

Suite lounge and dining room beyond. Rollover to see the bedroom to the suite. Large wardrobes compete with the bed canopies to dominate the large rooms.Rollover to see the bathrooms, which have 'over the bath' showers

The room has echoes of the corridor scheme with the currently fashionable French device of black lacquer doors, black and gold pattern carpet and ceramics. Ceramic tiles are used in the corridors below dado and these too have echoes in the use of tiling in the bathrooms.

The top of the armoire carries a range of large ceramic pots which, like the canopy over the bed, appear to present another task for housekeeping. However they do reflect the traditional ceramic crafts in this area of Holland, repeated with the room numbering which is created on ‘tulip pots’ outside the room doors. Similarly the tulip mural outside the suites reflects the days of the tulip boom, when the tulip represented wealth in this part of the world.

Desks are not large, struggling to hold more than a laptop. Designed like an old fashioned Victorian washstand, they also offer inadequate number of electrical sockets. For a businessperson there is a need for a minimum of two sockets over a desktop to cope with the demands of a laptop, and probably one for either a mobile phone or other mobile device to be charged whilst working. Many ‘road warriors’ also have other devices that they need to run in parallel with their laptops from mobile printers to digital cameras. Whilst this may not be primarily a business hotel, I would imaging that many visitors to the Hague will have demands that need more than one socket over a desktop. Desktop area has been saved by using a picture light to light the desk rather than a task light.