Iv'e always liked Buck Rogers and the world of the future and Citizen M certainly filled the bill. It had all the facilities of a more expensive hotel. With the automation all my needs were met such as the mood lighting, temperature, music, etc. I have never had such a nice relaxing shower as I had at Citizen M. and the HUGE bed was the highlight of my trip. I wish Citizen M was in Canada!!! I can hope can't I.

I've read a few reviews which state CitizenM as good and I have to say, it's better, it's great! When you walk through the front doors, you feel that your part of a contemporary and modern hotel, an experience in its own right. From experience that normally is at the sacrifice of comfort. I must say however that the beds are SO comfortable and the room while compact was really clever and good fun.

Firstly - the CitizenM has a great location (assuming that you have just got, or are about to get a flight to/from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. It is within a few minutes walk of the terminal, under a covered walkway. I have stayed at some pretty dire airport hotel's whose good point is the location. Not so CitizenM. It's really like spending the night in an IKEA show room.

I stayed here one night before leaving schiphol airport by plane in the early morning. This is Value for money no noncense hotel on close walking distance from Shiphol airport terminal. Rooms (more a studio) are small but all needs at the room. Internet is free (althought wifi on room not very fast). Just the things you need.

Stayed for second time at this hotel. First time as Solo traveller in June 09 and it was Perfect !. This time in Jan 2010 was ok, but had several problems. Location is just the best and easy to get a snack at Schiphol Airport.

Me and my partner loved this hotel! Definately the best hotel I have ever stayed in. I can't wait to go back. The rooms are really funky and small touches are brill, such as mood lighting, tv/music, uk plug socket, hairdryer, big drawer, lots of pillows, am and pm shower gel, and the shower is AWESOME! Sure you can see through the glass so I guess sharing with someone you don't know well isn't advisable but there is a curtain you can pull.

Good things: compact and super-comfy room, high-tech Phillips facilities including chromotherapy showers and light/mood pads, large beds with v. comfy mattresses, free films and quite a choice of them ;-),...

This is the third time I've stayed at the Schipol Citizen M and I have enjoyed it each and every time, comfy HUGE bed, wonderful rain room shower and the location cannot be beaten for an early (or late) flight.

Ok lets say that 1st the citizenm is my favourite hotel but this stay i wasnt that happy.1st i had to pay for early check in which was 19 euro.I was a little upset with this but i paid.

This is the perfect hotel in case you have an early flight out of Shiphol. It is walking distance from the terminal, clean and very quite rooms, nice bar and very comfortable lounche.

Besides the value, airport convenience, and style, Citizen M is a meeting place. The upbeat, design aware, and ambitious will find you just beyond the entry.

This "Apple meets IKEA" hotel is ideal for a weekend escapade with your significant other to Amsterdam.

It was a last minute decision to spend the weekend in Amsterdam. The weather forecast promised a fine weather in the days to come so we thought we?d rather go elsewhere than to spend a weekend at our backyard beach (we?re not so much of beach fans). ?been to Amsterdam years ago while Son did a thorough cultural study of the city just three months ago with his friends in college (school?s pre-requisite). Our railpasses stretched its use up to Essen from the capital city of Brussels, leaving us to pay just a fraction of the already discounted weekend tarief from Essen to Amsterdam. Quite a bargain. It was about two and a half hour comfortable ride from Brussels to Amsterdam Airport, where our chosen hotel awaits. Why at the airport and not at the city center? I?ll tell you as I go along.

As soon as my son and I decided to spend the weekend in Amsterdam, we tried to book a hotel room at the city center itself. I guess we decided too late, as most of the hotels that we know of were either fully booked or the prices had gone sky-high. The only option for our hotel budget was outside the city center---where we found one nearby the Schiphol airport. Not bad, as we also love airport scenes. Call us mad, but we do love lingering around the airports and malls---and Schiphol (Amsterdam?s main international airport) isn?t just an airport but a mall as well---or shall I say Amsterdam?s Mall WITH an international airport attached to it.

There were several hotels in and around Schiphol Airport, ranging from one to five star accommodations: Etap, Ibis and Mercure are a few of our favourites. They offer a free shuttle service from the hotel to the airport. Sheraton Hotel is located and connected to the airport itself, but it was far-out of our budget range. Then, we discovered a new hotel just a few steps from the airport--- very trendy and young. We read a lot of reviews and the majority seemed positive about it. We even watched some videos and were pleased with what we saw; but personally, we chose this hotel becauseit was very much within our budget.

OUR HOTEL


CitizenM Schiphol is the trendiest hotel that we have ever been to---it is just about a few steps from the main entrance of the airport. The building from afar is like a grey/beige box with the name of the hotel written on it. At the back of it is literally the runway of the airplanes. In front of it is the main highway to the airport. ?sounds noisy, isn?t it? BUT IT ISN?T! It is actually quiet and very open. The walkway to the hotel from the airport is covered, therefore, rain and snow proof, I may say. The hotel entrance was very red, with its red glass doors and red glass hallway. The friendly English-speaking young man greeted us and booked us right away. Our hotel room was all ready when we got in at around 10 am. Key card was scanned and not stuck in the key slot. Son loved it instantly, while I had to analyze it logically and get over it. It was beautiful at first glance but definitely weird. Intelligently and tastefully designed but?still weird! usually, people call me weird, but this??

The room is controlled by a computerized control panel. When you get into the room, the panel greets you welcome. From there, you can control everything in the room---the lights, the window blinds, airconditioner, tv, etc. You can choose which mood do you want your room to be---business, romantic, love, etc. Super cool! Room has a large wall-to-wall bed with a big flat screen tv in front of it. Toilet and shower are two separate round cubicles but still is a part of the room. Its shape and location in the bed room is really awkward yet tasteful. It is like a cubicle where you utter the words : ?Beam me up, Scotty?, or the bedroom of one of the teenage kids of the Jetsons. A hotel mascot awaits you in your room when you come in. It?s a rag doll and it's there to accompany you during your stay. If you decide to adopt it, you will be charged ?19.95. Shampoos are in dispensers. You can buy the same shampoo with CitizenM?s logo on it from the souvenir shop of the hotel. There are about 60 tv channels in different languages. Film tv channels are free of charge.

My favourite part of this room is the wide glass window fronting the runway of the planes! Watch the planes land and take off from your bedroom window---how cool is that? Inspite of its closeness to the airport, this hotel is really SOUND PROOF! You can?t hear any sound at all! The bed itself is also the most comfortable bed that I?ve ever slept on. Lots of large pillows and the linens were soft and clean!
The bar downstairs is very cool and trendy. There are ready made foods that you can take by yourself. The price of the meals are very reasonable. Sushi costs around ?8 for 8 pieces, noodles, rice meals, salads and vegetarian dishes were also available at reasonable prices. Breakfast is available twenty four hours and there are so many places to lounge around, conference rooms to hold your meetings and a computer area where you can use about 6 of their computers and printers FREE OF CHARGE! The overall design of this hotel is very young and futuristic. Very attractive to the youth, the young-once and the modern business people who wish to stay there for a lay-over.

INTO THE CITY


After checking-in at the hotel, we decided to get into the action right away and boarded the train from Schiphol to the city center of Amsterdam. There is a tourist information just in front of the station. Here one can buy an I AMSTERDAM pass for 24, 48 and 72 hours. This entitles you to a free entrance for most museums and free use of the busses and trams in and around the city. I could have bought one of those but since we were just staying for one weekend and since we arrived already very late in the afternoon, I thought I?d just go around first and look at the bird?s eye view of Amsterdam and visit some interesting museums as we go along.

Our journey started at the Dam, the central square of the city. There were some street performers, a lot of tourists and the ambiance of everyone ?high? from their holiday hormones---including me of course. I wish I could start telling you now what all those monuments, attractions and site are all about, but the space on this blog will not be sufficient, therefore I will make my tips about it on a separate page. What to see at the Dam are the Bijenkorf, a very big and beautiful mall, the famous Hotel Krasnapolsky, Madame Tussaud and the Royal Palace. Then, we moved on to visit the Rijksmuseum, a museum that recently re-opened that houses several paintings and arts of famous artists. The Van Gogh Museum was hard to miss since I have been a fan of him since I was just a little child. My sore feet flattened by the heavy weight of my obessed body gave up and we were forced to take the tram to get us to Leidsplein where we took a cuppa at the imposing white and yellow building of the café Americain. Leidsplein is where the action is---lot of good shops and restaurants. Walking back to the station, we passed by the very busy shopping streets where bargains were still on and people still unreluctantly buying stuffs. To end our day we passed by the Albert Heijn supermarket to buy some fruits and vegetable salads for our evening meal, that is, after we quenched our thirst for window shopping at the Magna Plaza, a large mall of nothing but signatures.

Back at the hotel at precisely 7pm. Feet sore, head turning from fatigue, rested-muscles aching and hunger pangs active, confined us at our room for a while. Cold aircon took my fatigue away (but not my sore feet). Son experimented with the control panel of the room while I checked on my mails from my laptop-served with a FREE WIFI. By the way, I forgot to mention---aside from the free wifi, every hotel room is equipped with a safe fit for every laptop. I found it very handy. Because of the proximity of the hotel to the airport, we thought we?d take a drink at the panoramic bar/restaurant of the airport and watch more planes go by. Then, we went back to the hotel, lounged around at the lounge area and used the hotel's computer at the lobby FREE of charge.

THE DAY AFTER


Ahhhhh?a brand new morn! I have dozed off pretty deep. ?woke up with smile on my face rather than ?gosh! What time is it? Darn!? sort of morning. It was 5am and ?was ready to hit the road. Unfortunately, Son was still in his REM state and I dared not destroy his peace or it would be war the rest of the day. I opened the window blinds to have an early glimpse of the comings and the goings of the planes that must have taken me to or taken me home from a holiday of my dream. Oh well, watching them pass by my window was exciting enough. Next time, it will be my turn to travel farther ---to my dream destination. TV was set on the free film offered by the hotel. Actually, there were two film channels where I was zapping to and fro until I fell asleep last night. Can?t remember what they were. I was so tired to really watch them fully.
At 6am, I finally hit the shower. The shower wasn?t really privacy-friendly. Although you can set the light inside the cabin on the mood of your choice, the walls and doors are see-through. Not convenient if you are sharing a room with a specie of opposite gender. Although there was a white curtain in between the shower and the bed, the curtain was also see through! Surely the interior designer of this room was a male, lol! :o! Sooooo, anyway, I decided to put off the light, opened the blinds of the window and let the lights from the runway lighten up the room and conceal the shower cubicle from the bed to protect my privacy---just in case Son wakes up and have a shock of his life. The shower was great though---the rain shower gave me the wow feeling of having--- a shower, well, ahhh, in the rain! Son woke up at 7am, had his share of public display in our shower room and off we went to the airport to take our breakfast at Starbucks. (BTW, if you want total convenience, CitizenM also offers breakfast at a very reasonable price!)

Back to the city center at 10 am, locking backpacks at the luggage depot of the central station. The fee was minimal and you can pay with your debit card or credit card. Should you want to pay in cash, ask the person-in-charge so that he can help you. Friendly staff---they are always there to help.

Our itinerary for today is pure relaxation with a bit of shopping and city orientation. Son asked me if I wanted to see the famous sights of Amsterdam and I eagerly said YES. So, he brought me to the ---Yeah? yeah?the Red Light District. Didn?t really see much, I just wanted to get out of there right away. Too wild for an aging female like myself, I guess. Soon, we were window shopping at the coolest streets of the Negen Straten (9 Streets) Wowowee! This place is awesome. It?s all nine streets of delightful shops and restaurants---

Brunch we did at the restaurant De Jaren. It is a grand building on the side street of the Negen Straten; quite clean, classy and trendy place to eat. Then, we went to visit the museum of the famous ANNE FRANK. Since it was forbidden to take pictures inside the museum, I took the liberty of taking the picture of the actual house where Anne used to live in, and the lower part of the house where Anne?s father used to work. We also visited a few churches such as the Nieuwe Kerk, St. Nicholas Kerk and Westerkerk. The views of the canals were phenomenal. The last part of our visit was way back to the Dam again and see more of the places that we?ve missed the day before, such as Madam Tussaud and the Bijenkorf. Our final goodbye was at the top restaurant of Bijenkorf where we had a delicious apple cake, coke and coffee.

Amsterdam is not so far from our place and yet the least visited city in our list. Now that we?ve found the cheapest way to get there via public transport, the Amsterdamers will surely see a lot more of us in the coming days.
WIJ ZULLEN TERUGKEREN! (We shall be back!)

Just by entering the CitizenM hotel in Schiphol, you'll notice the modern design of this hotel. You can check-in on one of the six touch-screen computers, but a staff member (or 'ambassador' as they're called there) will be glad to help you register. Dull signs such as food or drinks are replaced by cool ones, always starting with "citizenM says:". The corridor leading to your room might give the impression that the rooms would seem to narrow, but just after holding your key in front of your door (yes, no more sliding of keycards), you'll see that the room is of a quite good size.

The room comes with a large bed, a shower with a rainfall shower head, a toilet, a seat, a TV, free wi-fi internet and a safe where you can store your laptop. But, the most impressive part of it all is the Philips MoodPad! With this cool electronic gadget, you can..

Because I've put lots of time into making this review and video, please read my full detailed review and video of citizenM and Amsterdam city on my blog: xfifteen.blogspot.com

Firstly if you need or want a full service hotel (eg. concierge, room service, baggage handling) don't stay here. To be honest both my wife and I thought CitizenM was average. Yes its different and quirky (which can be a nice change), however it lacks in a lot of other areas.

Just loved everything about this hotel - cool design, location, price, service. Can't wait to see citizenM grow and to see all the copy-cat hotels spring up in the next few years.

CitizenM has a lot going for it. The moment you walk into the main lobby area, you are wowed by the simplistic and funky style. Check in takes a matter of seconds (with staff on hand should you struggle with the self service model - but it's so simple they needn't worry). The rooms are great - with perhaps the biggest bed I have ever slept in.

Great location and the perfect place to stay if you have a long stopover at Schipol. The rooms are small but fine for a 1-2 night stay. The toilets and showers do leave you somewhat exposed and may not be to everyones liking! The rain shower however is awesome, as is the kingsize bed.

The perfect solution for a relaxed start of a journey. We've stayed here before, but this time the value of the room was made clear after a crazy person stopped all trains at a major station in the Netherlands. Would we have travelled by train on the morning of our travel itself, we would have missed our flight.

Loved it ... citizenM amsterdam city is a great hotel with a very unusual bedroom. The largest bed I have ever seen, multi coloured lighting, and a flat screen tv. Free on demand movies, and porm (if that's what you're into).

Ultra modern decor, everything in the room is controlled by a Phillips moodpad from the blinds to the lights, shower, TV, air con, everything! Comfyest bed ever, its huge with lots of pillows and extra duvet if you want, theres an electronic safe in the room, free movies, lots of English channels on TV, hairdryer, also free designer shampoos which smell gorgeous!

Big on design, Big on aesthetic, Big on Comfort, Small on room size, and importantly very cheap on price. Part of the new wave of "Pod" hotels, Citizen M Amsterdam City is excellent value for money, with top rate design features (to rival that of a modern 5 star), and excellent sleeping conditions. Ideal for a short break with a lover or partner.

Me and my wife found this hotel online and decided to stay here after looking at the pictures and reviews. The low price was also a deciding factor. The hotel was so comfortable and state of the art, despite the fact that it was a small room. Everyting was arranged very thoughtfully within such a small real estate.

I stayed in the CitizenM City Amsterdam Hotel on Feb 6th. I had read the reviews on Tripadvisor and seen that it won 'Trendiest Hotel in the World' award in 2010. All I can say is that it is brilliant and well worth a visit to Amsterdam just to stay there. It is also very good value.

Situated next to Schipol, Citizen M has a great deal going. Twice I spent one night each and loved the convenience and price range for the location. I will be back for sure.

Rooms take a bit of getting used to but once you do, you're hooked. Concept is really unique and that's what sets it apart from all the others. The lobby is fabulous and a great place to hold meetings or just lounge. Staff is really friendly. The ability to get snacks and food in the middle of the night is a boon for jet laggers.

Very trendy hotel for people who like designery things. However the breakfast ordered in advance for 10 EUROs is a complete waste of money. And don''t bother to give any negative feedback to the staff: if you don't like it, you don't have to have it (even if you paid in advance!)

I just loved the concept. Room was spotless, staff the friendliest ever. It was surprisingly quiet for an airport hotel, very conveniently located and sooo cool. If I could just make one little half-negative comment it would be that there was hardly any space to open my suitcase and I was a little bit cold even with the heating set on maximum. I would definitely stay at this hotel again.

If you need a hotel waiting for next day flight, this is your smartest option. Right next to (I mean 3 min walking distance only) the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol terminal buildings and train station. The terminal building double functions as a shopping centre, quick bites, and even has a supermarket.

very convenient for travelling to and from Schiphol airport. the rooms are spectacular with regards to design and gadgets and the bed very large and comfortable. The hotel is very suitable for people who love out of the ordinary hotels as this hotel has a great sense of humor . . .

Elegant and simple; quiet and thought provoking; efficient and practical. There is no place I would rather stay to begin or end a trip. CitizenM has thought of everything to embrace the weary traveler or to help the energetic get ready for adventure.

This is my second time I stayed there, and again loved my stay. The hotel is located right at Schiphol, perfect for spending a night, when you have an early flight or when you arrive late in Holland. The room is very modern, clean and has all the amenities you need for one night.

My husband and I spent one night at the citizenM Amsterdam City in January 2010. We had a great stay - the rooms are small and 'pod-like', but have everything you need for a short stay. The bed was very comfortable and my husband loved the 'mood pad' - which you use to control the lighting, raising/lowering the blinds, alarm, TV, movies etc.

We enjoyed our stay at this hotel very much. Tiny room is extremely comfortable and stylish. Check in check out is a breeze. The whole hotel is very practical, clean, chick. Makes you feel great. It takes sometime to travel to downtown but there are several traveling options. Train (fastest), metro and tram (closest).