Epic Places to Stay

Corrie found some incredible places for us to stay. The AirBnB in Dortmund was a nice slice of home, and it was easy for us to slide in there and feel like we were doing a home-away-from-home thing. If we were to stay longer, we would have had to better figure out the cooking dinner part, but as it was, it was very nice.

Stairs, two bedrooms, a quiet street down from a park, and close to both a university-bound bus and the town center-bound subway.

Here's a shot Corrie took of us before we took the subway into to town to see the show at Domicil:

Zoom in pretty far

There we are!

The hotel in Aachen wasn't super-spectacular, but it was nice enough, had a fancy buffet breakfast so the kids could choose their own food, and was close to everything we wanted to do. It was also the site for a very pleasant evening of drinking beer and watching Germany play a World Cup game, and the resulting honking, even if my video in the earlier post never worked.

The hotel in Brussels was close to a tram stop that itself was close to the stuff we wanted to do there. It, the B and B Hotel Brussels, was chosen because of the cool stuff for kids. The swings in the lobby, a popcorn machine, the bunk beds carved into the wall, and another breakfast buffet. You're eating how many croissants?

All of those places were nice. But the AirBnB in Antwerp was freaking epic. Right on the square in an ancient building, with a view that I couldn't get enough of. I mean, I tried to be chill, but...

4 pm

10 pm

11 pm

8:30 am

10 am

It was like staying right on top of Times Square, if Times Square wasn't all about consumerism, full of automobiles, and in fact five-hundred years old.

I even found myself taking pictures of the room from the ground level, the four windows above the Rooden Hoed, at all hours of the day:

So...I may have had a few drinks in between some of these pics, but it was magical.

And then the Dikker and Thijs in Amsterdam. It sat on the corner of the main roads, the Leidsestraat, and the main canal, the Prinsengracht. That's it there, centered:

But our room was the top! The corner window and the two on both sides. It was super cool:

It was even above the tower on the left. 

See? And check 

The room key was made of balsa, and after that night where it rained heavily and my clothes got ratehr soaked, it warped:

It went back to normal by the end, which is pretty cool.

The room was featured in the screens on the elevator:

Well, not really...actually, that's the room below us:

This was the best, most epic hotel I've yet to stay in. And I know the kids don't appreciate it. The AirBnB in Antwerp? Holy hell, they may never understand that either.

Corrie killed it on this trip.