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Cocomama vs Hotel Arena
Both Hotel Arena and Cocomama are rated very highly by expert reviewers. Overall, Hotel Arena ranks significantly better than Cocomama. Hotel Arena is ranked #21 in Amsterdam with praise from 14 reviews such as Wallpaper, Rough Guide and Frommer's.
Cocomama
Lonely Planet
Rough Guide
Oyster
The Telegraph
Westeinde 18, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From $15 /night
- Free Internet
- Free Breakfast
- Laundry Service
- Kitchenette
- Baggage storage
- Board games / puzzles
Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"Amsterdam’s first self-proclaimed ‘boutique hostel’ plays up its salacious past (the building was once home to a high-end brothel) in some themed bunk rooms."
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Rough Guide
"This relatively new hotel-hostel is excellently located, footsteps from the main museums and also from the De Pijp neighbourhood."
Oyster
Budget
"Cocomama bills itself as Amsterdam’s first boutique hostel, and this ultra-affordable budget property features individually decorated rooms and a stylish atmosphere that the average hostel can't match."
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The Telegraph
8.0
"A former bordello is given new life as a hostel specifically directed at first-time travellers."
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Hotel Arena
Michelin Guide
Concierge
Lonely Planet
Travel + Leisure
DK Eyewitness
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's-Gravesandestraat 51, Amsterdam 1092 AA, The Netherlands
From $105 /night
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
- Restaurant
Michelin Guide
"Formerly an orphanage (1890), now an ultra-trendy hotel."
Concierge
"The St. Elizabeth building (circa 1890) was a Catholic orphanage turned youth hostel until 1999, when it was upgraded into this happy, still-youth-centric hotel."
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Standard rooms look like the orphans never moved out and are to be avoided.
Lonely Planet
"A modern, four-star, 116-room hotel with a trendy restaurant, cafe and nightclub."
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Travel + Leisure
"Built as the St. Elisabeth Orphanage in 1890, the brick building now houses the Hotel Arena, with its trendy restaurant, café, and nightclub."
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DK Eyewitness
"The restaurant, bar and nightclub are the stars of this former orphanage in a slightly out-of-the-way residential district, so the Arena is ideal for young trendies intent on socialising in situ."
