Wijk aan Zee is a very cosy town near the beach of North Holland. it is easy to reach from Amsterdam, Schiphol or Haarlem . and it is very quiet, if you like to get some fresh air by a walk along the beach. The Zeeduin hotel and restaurant is excellent quality with pleasant staff, sufficient parking, good restaurant and reasonable choice of wines. The breakfast is good with plenty of choices. Me and my partner had a pleasant
We stayed for 5 nights. Room was generous but bed was two singles pushed together, which was a bit disconcerting. Comfortable enough though. Staff were pleasant and friendly and helpful. Restaurant is quite good and reasonable value. Location is a couple of hundred metres from the bus stop (comes every half hour from Beverwijk Railway Station, which is about 15 minutes away) and there is good carparking at the rear of the hotel.
The hotel is the last on the road onto the beach, which means that it can be a bit noisy with wind sometimes but that is far better than traffic noise. The hotel is on its own right in the dunes so it's surprisingly remote for such a crowded place as The Netherlands. Walk 100 metres onto the beach and there is 2 kms of wide empty spaces (once the portable day shacks have been removed at the end of summer) all the way down to Ijmuiden and the Tata Steel Works.
We enjoyed our stay in Wijk an Zee, so different from the central high rise hotels we stayed in elsewhere during our Netherlands holiday.
Overall, a bit pricey and a bit tired as others have noted but the location is unique and if you want to 'get away from it all' you will enjoy the village atmosphere of Wijk an Zee.
I stay regularly at this hotel for work, but also enjoy the location in the sand dunes and close to the beach for evening walks. The rooms are a good size, and the staff are friendly. Very good value for the price. The location can get noisy on stormy nights.
I've stayed here on a number of occasions (at least 6/7) but it just seems to be deteriorating.
It's always been basic, which you can accept as its good value for money, in a great location, with nice staff and a lovely restaurant, but the room wasn't very clean this time.
The bed was the strangest and seriously affected my sleep; it was two single bases pushed together, with mattresses that were at least 6 inches too wide for the base, but they had both the overlaps in the middle which meant that where the mattresses joined there were no bases underneath and I had to be careful not to fall between them!!! Very strange.
I liked the ground floor room and sat on the terrace taking in the late evening sun. Some of my furniture was pretty tired / stained. The tall lamp bulb had blown which meant that the room lighting was poor.
Breakfast is pretty good too.
The staff are very pleasant.
plenty parking behind the hotel, free for genius members.
lovely lounge terras and separate terras for eating.
the room on 4th floor had no airco, lucky not to have the sun in afternoon and evening, plenty of windows can be opened.
simple decor, bit to many furniture in the room.
fine bed and bathroom ok but I dont like that the shower is inside the tub.
good rentall bikes and great area to bike.
