The Top 39 Hotels Near Bistro Margaux
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The hotel names itself after the chant Dutch football fans have been roaring since forever, which tells you exactly what you're in for. Tennis courts, squash, basketball, and indoor football fill the grounds, the non-athletic spaces are styled to look like ball courts, and one restaurant has a bowling lane running alongside the tables. A spa is on hand when you've inevitably overdone it. Selected by the Michelin Guide.
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A manor house sitting in the woods outside Nistelrode, The Duke Suites leans hard into the English country estate fantasy: checkerboard marble floors, a sweeping oak staircase, crystal chandeliers, and crimson headboards. All 18 suites run over 70 square meters and come with freestanding baths and 24-hour butler service. There's an 18-hole golf course, a Finnish sauna, and a whirlpool for when the grandeur gets exhausting.
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The old hunting grounds of the Dukes of Brabant make for a particular kind of backdrop, and The Duke Club leans into it: a stately country-house hotel wrapped around one of the Netherlands' serious golf courses, south of the city canal-house circuit entirely. Twenty suites mix saturated color and patterned wallpaper with spa bathrooms and butler service, which is either a contradiction or exactly the point. Fine dining, a brasserie, and a spa complete the picture.
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Fort Isabella's 17th-century barracks have been quietly repurposed into a thirty-room hotel, the original monumental windows and soaring ceilings kept intact. Auping beds and checkerboard rain showers fill the rooms; a shared living room with a bar holds the social center together. Woods, a canal, and a food hall sit just outside, and the old city is ten minutes by bike, which feels about right for a place that spent centuries being decidedly off-limits.
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A 13th-century castle on the edge of the North Limburg village of Baarlo, surrounded by gardens quiet enough to make you forget your phone exists. The rooms lean into the Pillows name with Egyptian cotton piled high and beamed ceilings overhead, contemporary comforts tucked into medieval bones. Fine dining draws on the estate's own kitchen garden, and bikes are available for when the countryside starts looking too good to ignore from a window.
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A centuries-old Dutch country estate that doesn't lean into the antiques, Parc Broekhuizen is a small hotel where the rooms run to sculptural furniture and clean lines, with windows looking out over garden or lake. The kitchen takes the seasons seriously, which at this latitude means it has opinions. Woodland paths and still water fill the gaps between meals, and the whole place feels less like a retreat from the world than a reason to pay closer attention to it.
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Floor-to-ceiling windows run the length of every room here, so the South China Sea is essentially part of the décor. This Forbes Five Star hotel in Taipa keeps things sleek and contemporary, with earth-tone rooms, hardwood floors, and bathrooms that don't make you feel rushed. The 38th-floor lobby sets the tone, and the 38 Lounge draws a well-dressed crowd at sunset for cocktails and live jazz with the Macau Peninsula glittering across the water.
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Floor-to-ceiling windows facing the trees in La Forêt, or a circular sleeping nook under a simulated night sky in the Moonlight Suite: this Michelin Key hotel on the edge of Hoge Kempen National Park has clearly given the room categories some thought. Three buildings spread across a historic estate handle different moods, from grand manor-house formality to lakeside contemporary. A gastronomic restaurant, a bistro, and a champagne bar mean you never have to leave, which is the whole idea.
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A 15th-century monastery converted into a 114-room countryside luxury hotel, sitting at the edge of the Ingendael Nature Preserve outside Maastricht. The original farmhouse, convent, and grain lofts are now country-chic guestrooms, which is either charming or a lot to explain at breakfast. A Roman-style pool, sauna, and Turkish bath handle the spa brief. Contemporary French classics go out at Les Salons; Burgemeester Quicx keeps the coffee running. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
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A shepherd who takes guests along on his rounds supplies the bistro here, which says quite a lot about the philosophy of this forested lodge near Hoge Veluwe National Park. The lodge has been around forever, and the rooms, forest cabins, and converted farmhouse all lean into the surrounding woodland rather than competing with it. A lobby fireplace and outdoor firepit handle the evenings, and workshop space draws retreat groups who need trees nearby to think straight.
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A 14th-century monastery converted into a hotel, with the restraint to restore the stonework and cloistered calm without turning the whole thing into a museum. The 52 rooms range from snug doubles to family-sized suites, all period bones with contemporary colors and properly modern comforts. Downstairs, Café Louis runs a full French kitchen sourcing locally, which is either a contradiction or just very Dutch pragmatism, depending on your mood.
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A Gothic monastery with monks' cells converted into minimalist hotel rooms is not a concept that always lands, but the Kruisherenhotel pulls it off with considerable nerve. The original cloisters and church are still there, now dressed in white walls, frosted glass, and lighting installations by Ingo Maurer. Breakfast happens on a mezzanine overlooking all of it. The old monastery garden provides a rare quiet corner in central Maastricht.
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A ten-room boutique hotel in a Limburg farmhouse that was a ruin before the family who owns it rescued it. It carries the ease of a countryside B&B and the quiet grandeur of a manor, which is a harder balance to strike than it sounds. The open kitchen turns out dinner from the garden; the rooms run to bold colors and deliberately sparse decor. The Michelin Guide has it in its selected hotels list.
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Each of the eight rooms at this small, family-run canal hotel takes its personality from a different Utrecht museum, which sounds gimmicky until you see the stained glass and ceiling ornaments sitting alongside saturated walls and clean lines. The ground floor doubles as sunroom and lounge, and breakfast there runs long. The Michelin Guide lists it among its selected hotels, which fits: it has the feel of someone's very well-curated house.
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Utrecht's original courthouse has been housing the guilty and the innocent since before the Norman Conquest, and the building still carries that weight. It's a boutique hotel now, where centuries of civic gravity meet colorful rooms decorated with archival photo prints from the city's legal past. Espresso machines and free wifi soften the sentence considerably. The in-house restaurant, De Rechtbank, draws plenty of locals who have no business being there.
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