Guide · Schiphol · 2026-10-15
Hotels around the Munt tower and the floating flower market
Where the Kalverstraat, the Rokin and the Vijzelstraat meet, a tower with a clock and bells stands over the water. Beside it, flower stalls line the Singel. The hotels in this corner sit at the hinge between the old centre and the canal ring.
The Munttoren was once part of a city gate, and its name comes from a short spell in the seventeenth century when coins were struck inside it. Today it stands on a busy junction of trams, bicycles and pedestrians, with the Amstel to the east and the Singel to the west. Along the Singel the flower market occupies a row of stalls built on barges, selling bulbs, cut flowers and souvenirs to a steady stream of visitors.
The hotels here
This cluster mixes larger hotels on the junction and along the Vijzelstraat with smaller ones on the Singel and the Herengracht behind it. The larger hotels have lifts, staffed desks and rooms of reasonable size; the smaller ones offer canal views and stairs. Either kind suits a session, and both are easy for her to find from the tower. Some upper-floor rooms look straight at the clock face, a view that tells a guest still on another time zone the local hour at a glance.
From the airport
The airport train to Centraal and a tram south bring you to the Munt in a few stops, and the metro station at Rokin is a short walk away; from its southern exit the tower is already in sight at the end of the street. A taxi can drop you on the junction, though traffic is busy and stopping is brief. Have the hotel's address ready, since several streets meet here and the entrance may be round a corner.
Day and night on the junction
By day the junction is crowded with shoppers and people photographing the flower stalls. In the evening the stalls close, the shops follow, and the area grows quieter, though trams continue to pass. Rooms facing the junction hear the trams; rooms on the Singel or the Herengracht hear the water. For a session after dark, a canal-side room is the calmer choice.
Fitting a session around the first day
The Munt is a handy point to begin and end a first day on foot: the flower market, the Kalverstraat, the Begijnhof and the canals are all close. Send the message on your way back, and she will be at the door forty to sixty minutes after you confirm. The first-visit page covers the steps of a first booking, and the deposit entry explains the half that goes ahead.