Noordwijk aan Zee, Netherlands - my insights! food and hotel guide !

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Travel Netherlands? My insights for your stay at the beach, Noordwijk on the beach!

Lets go to the beach! Noordwijk aan Zee, my guide about food and where to stay! 

what I loved about Netherlands is that you have so many options to go to the beach. As we were staying in Amsterdam before I did some research on the internet and found a great city called Noordwijk aan Zee. It is about 30 minutes distance to drive from Amsterdam.

After our stay in the city it was just relaxing so spend some days in this wonderful region. 

Where to stay in Noordwijk aan Zee?

I prefer staying most of the time in small hotels. So after my search I found just the perfect hotel to stay in Noordwijk aan Zee - called "Villa de Duinen". The Villa was built in 1902 and has been modern renovated. The design ist minimal and modern. The Villa de Duinen, as the naming is already telling, is only 5 minutes walk distance from the beach.

The hotel offers only 11 rooms in 3 different categories. They all offer super comfy luxury beds, which gives you the perfect sleep for your day activities. Also they have luxury bath rooms with care products of my favorite brand called "Rituales". 

If you have a rainy day dont worry, included in the pricing of the room you get entrance to the "Azzuro" Wellness & Spa. Just across the street we spend a wonderful Relaxing day of fitness and wellness. 

The hotel is located around 2 minutes walking distance  from the city centre, where you can find many nice shops and restaurants. 

The Villa is also well known for its own restaurant. Its one of the best restaurants I have been so far. Make sure to reserve a table for dinner as it is well known in this region.

As I just also loving being at the beach, I just loved about Noordwijk aan Zee that you also have so many various options of beach clubs.  

The beach clubs in Noordwijk aan Zee, my food guide for you, here are my recommendations: 

Branding Beach Club

Breakers Beach House

Strandclub Witsand

Enjoy your stay // lunch // dinner // snack!

I linked you all the places, just click on them and you will be forwarded to the locations.

In case you missed my two postings about where to stay in Amsterdam and my Amsterdam food guide, check it out: Part 1 - where to stay in Amsterdam.

Part 2 - food guide Amsterdam.

Cheers,

Melaines-Insights

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Amsterdam, Netherlands, my insights! Part 2 - food guide!

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Travel Amsterdam, Netherlands? My food guide Amsterdam for you!

Part 2 - where to eat in Amsterdam City?

Hey guys,

as promised my second part from my Amsterdam guide - the food guide - posting is finally coming to you. Sorry for being a bit late with it, but due to some work I didnt have much time to write on my blog lately.

If you travel Amsterdam, you need to make sure to check also these restaurants/bars/hotels while being in this great city.

I was doing my research based on locals recommendations and Instagram. Which I normally always do that way to get the best food experience while traveling.

Out of all the restaurants and bars tested and tasted here are my top recommendations for you, when traveling the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands:

First one is a casual one. Veggie, Vegetarian and Vegan food sounds not good to you? I bet you will change your mind after heading to the famous and really Instagram place called "Vegan Junk Food Bar". I had the best sweet potatoe fries and veggie burger of my lifetime. The restaurant itself is easy and modern designed, so I would say its easy chic. I loved the pink design by the way :-)

If your into sea food I highly recommend you to visit the "Seafood Bar". It serves fresh sea food and you can choose between all your favorite fishes directly in front of you. The interior is really clean and modern. This one is great for dinner or lunch. 

For all Asian infused kitchen fans - more correct its Japanese kitchen - the "Wagamama". I had a great soup and they offer great starters ! Amsterdam has some "Wagamama" Restaurants in different parts of the city. Make sure to place a reservation as it is especially crowded at the evenings. 

Last but not least the best roof top terrace bar in Amsterdam. Its located on top of the W Hotel, which is in a historical building but the inside is really modern and stylish. We only had drinks there, but you can also reserve a table at the restaurant. I enjoyed a signature W Hotel mint iced tea, it came along with popcorn and nuts. It has also a pool outdoor and check the event calendar as they also host some DJ nights there. 

Enjoy your lunch // dinner // snack!

I linked you all the restaurants and bars, just click on them and you will be forwarded to the locations.

In case you missed my first posting about where to stay in Amsterdam, check it out: Part 1 - where to stay in Amsterdam.

Cheers,

Melaines-Insights

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Amsterdam, Netherlands, my insights!! Part 1 - where to stay?

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Travel Amsterdam, Netherlands? My insights for you about where to stay?

Part 1 - where to stay in Amsterdam City? 

Hey guys,

I just love roadtrips! In Europe you can pretty much drive around within an hour and you are in another country. 

This time we decided to head more North, as we usually go more South because actually we enjoy much more being in the mediterranean clima. 

If you would like to travel Amsterdam for a few days its always good to stay really central in the city. I really enjoy to stay at the NH Collection Hotels, when I travel foreign European cities. I started my research and found this great 5 star located hotel in the heart of Amsterdam City: its called The NH Collection Amsterdam Doelen.

Its one of the Amsterdam’s oldest and finest five-star hotels, dating from the Golden Age. But no worries, it is completly renovated and has really nice modern designed rooms.The 81 freshly-refurbished rooms are decorated in classical tones, mixing cream, red and gold accents. From standard rooms to palatial suites, each one combines sleek design with luxurious indulgence.

Over three centuries, it has hosted royal and legendary guests including Empress Elisabeth of Austria and the Beatles. Rembrandt’s ‘Night Watch’ was painted to display within its walls.

You have free access W-Lan and free access to the Fitness center. You can also bring your dog along the way, as the hotel is dog friendly. You got also a breakfast option to book and a 24h room service. 

The hotel has also a nice bar and restaurant the "Bamboo kitchen" which offers modern Asian infused food. 

I would suggest you to book a room with "canal view" - the so called "Grachten" view. It was just amazing to have a view towards facing the floating boats on the river called "Amstel".I love being near water so that was really something special.

As city trips are always about location location location, you can do everything by feet or by bike. Be aware of the bikers anyway, as they seem to have the city forthemselves. If you are a biker you can take full advantage of this "bisycle" city. You get everywhere real quick. I would not suggest to come by car in the city, if you can mind it, because the pricing of parking is really expensive. We paid 55 Euro a day for the velet parking option, the hotel offers. From a dutch friend I had the information that next time I should park the car around central station up North, there should be some park & ride options.

The guest relation team from the hotel offers - besides the great service while being in the hotel - a great online personal travel guide. You will get an questionare some days before you travel to Amsterdam, if you decide to use it you will have to answer some questions and afterwards the travel guide will be send threw by e-mail. I really thought this was innovativ and really useful for our trip, it even offers you some recommendations besides the typical sight seeing spots as restaurants and where locals go to.

So what are you waiting for ! Make sure to check out the amazing city of Amsterdam, next blog will be a food guide Amsterdam City, about where to eat out and have drinks in Amsterdam! 

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Looking for a spa day ? Check out my insights about the brand new "Mizu Onsen Spa", Tegernsee

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Wanna treat yourself with some wellness? Check out my recent visit at the Japanese influenced "Mizu Onsen Spa"

Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany. 

Hey guys,

as Im a huge enthusiast about the Japanese lifestlye I was so excited when I read that the "Bachmair Weissach Hotel", located at the wonderful Tegernsee in Bavaria (around 30 minutes drive from Munich), opened up the "Mizu Onsen Spa".

As the name is already hiding it, it is Japanese influenced. That means all the decoration in the spa and the surroundings are desinged in a really modern minimalistic Asian style. Onsen - means hot springs. Mizu is translated as an expression of astonishment, cold water.

First, when you arrive you will be friendly greeted and will get your own spa high end luxury equipments, which includes your own spa shoes and your own cozy bathrobe.

Your personal belongings you can leave in the locker room, which is all fitted in wood, which pays tribiute to the region.

In the back room of the locker you find a large bath rooom, where you can get yourself after spa ready with all the luxury amities you need to have. Not to forget to mention, they have the supersonic dyson (400 Euro) as their standard hair dryer.

When you entering the spa you get out of your locker room and walk threw the reception of the spa and then downstairs, where all the amenties of the spa are taking place.

The Spa itslef is offering a silent room as well as a super silent romm, for those who are searching for silence in perfection. 

For the steamer fans, they offer a steam room with 38 Celcius and another steam room up to 90 Celcius. 

Which to me was super exciting and I was thrilled to check out was the Onsen Bath with 42 Celcius. This was my personal highlight.

For those who like it more cold, the Spa offers Ice (YES, you heard right!) and cold waterbases 2 - 10 Celcius. I tried to get into the "cold" one, it was out of my reach. No way I could ever go into the ice one to be honest.

Outside the spa also has a sole-outdoor pool, which is headedup to 32 Celcius. I would say this is someting more for a summer visit, as you need to pass the "outside" to get into the pool.

The nature pool is also really nice, but also reserved for the summer days. 

After all the wellness, you might get hungry, we checked out the Mizu Onsen Spa-Bar. I tried the Blue Detox Tea and the Sushi Box, which was fitting to the atmosphere such a nice dish to have.

The Hotel itself is offering different restaurants (mainly Bavarian, regional food), which you can also visit if you cant find something on the menue. 

So either you travel or visit Tegernsee, you are searching for a wonderful gift, this Mizu Onsen Spa is worth a visit.

The only sad thing, you cant see the lake from the spa. So make sure you plan some more time to explore the amazing region of lake Tegernsee!

Make sure to place a reservation, especially on the weekends the spa is super busy. 

You find the links as always in the words, by clicking on them you will be forwarded to the websites. 

Cheers,

Melaines-Insights

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