Hi. Since monday, I’m on a new trip to the Netherlands. My experience with the Netherlands is a bit ambivalent. There are places where dogs are lovely welcomed and others where it is nearly impossible to enter.

But one thing at a time. We spent 3 wonderful nights in 3 beautiful hotels, the Inntel Zaandam near Amsterdam, the Inntel Utrecht Centre and the Inntel Art Hotel Eindhoven. In both of the latter there was even a Jacuzzi in the room, in Utrecht even a small sauna. Unfortunately I was not allowed to go to the hotel restaurant, so I stayed in the room at meal time. But that was no problem as my master always took the leftovers of food to my room.

Zaandam is a small lovely city outside of Amsterdam close to the famous Zaanse Schans, an open air museum with windmills.
In Amsterdam we visited among other things the Hard Rock Café where I was allowed to go to the shop but not to the bar. As I was allowed to enter in all other cafés I was surprised of that restriction in the HR Café.

In the afternoon, after we paid 38€ for about 6 hours of parking in Amsterdam, we drove on to Utrecht.

Utrecht has a beautiful small city centre with many small alleys and shops, bars and cafés. Here I was also allowed to enter everywhere exept the shopping centre, where the parking garage of the hotel was located. After a longer discussion with a security officer I could finally get in, but only on the arms of my master and only because we went immediately to the car. By the way, we had to pay 30€ for more or less 19 hours.

Now we are in Eindhoven. The hotel is near the stadium of the PSV. And I was also allowed to go into the bar of the hotel.