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(rooms are €10 cheaper; studios and apartments with kitchenettes for 2-4 people-€110-140
depending on season and number of people).
$$ Central Hotel Malts rents 12 bright, simple, and fresh rooms for a good price. The
rooms in front are big, but not recommended for light sleepers (small D-€75, small Db-€79,
standard Db-€89, big Db-€95, check website for best prices, no elevator, free Wi-Fi, Zijl-
straat 56, tel. [phone], www.maltshotel.nl , [e-mail] , Marco and Andrea).
They also offer €65 studio apartments with kitchenettes near the Red Light District.
Rooms in Restaurants
These places are all run as sidelines by restaurants, and you'll know it by the style of service
androoms.Lobbiesareintherestaurant,andtherearenopublicspaces.Still,theyarehandy
and—for Haarlem—inexpensive.
$$ Hotel Carillon overlooks the town square and comes with bell-tower chimes and
a little traffic. With run-down public spaces and st-e-e-e-p stairs, it's an old-school, over-
the-restaurant place. The rooms themselves, however, are freshly updated and pleasant.
The front rooms come with more street noise and great town-square views (tiny loft S-
€45, Db-€80-90, Tb-€110, Qb-€150, ask for Rick Steves discount when you reserve—must
show book on arrival, no elevator, free Wi-Fi, Grote Markt 27, tel. [phone], fax
023/531-4909, www.hotelcarillon.com , [e-mail] , owners Kelly Kuo, Andres
Haas, and June).
$$DieRaeckseHotel, family-runandfriendly,isnotascentralastheothersandhasless
character and more traffic noise—but its 21 rooms are decent and comfortable. Quiet rooms
in back cost more than the noisy rooms on the street—but they're worth it (Sb-€55, smaller
Db-€80-85, big Db-€85-90, Tb-€120, Qb-€130-145, €5/night discount for 2-night stay, ask
for Rick Steves discount if you book direct and show this topic on arrival—good only Nov-
March, free but time-limited Internet access, free Wi-Fi, Raaks Straat 1, tel. [phone],
fax [phone], www.die-raeckse.nl , [e-mail] ).
Near Haarlem
$$$ Hotel Haarlem Zuid, with 300 modern rooms, is sterile but a good value for drivers.
It sits in an industrial zone a 20-minute walk from the center, on the road to the airport.
They are renovating about two-thirds of the rooms; rates may rise as a result (Db-€89-140,
breakfast-€13, elevator, free Wi-Fi, free parking, laundry service, free fitness center, reas-
onable hotel restaurant, Toekanweg 2, tel. [phone], fax [phone],
www.hotelhaarlemzuid.nl , [e-mail] ) . Bus #300 conveniently connects the
hotel with the train station, Grote Markt, and the airport (every 10 minutes, stop: Euro-
paweg).