Often in my travels, people ask me where I stay, and what I think about the places that I stay. This is the beginning of what I hope to be a regular contribution to my blog. The “where does the global citizen stay” column.

Well, I have been on a whirlwind tour lately. I have been up, down, and all around Europe, and will continue to do so until the last week of October. Most of my travel is work-related. I am a contract product evangelist. Companies hire me to talk about their products in public: trade shows, conferences, etc. It is quite and interesting job, and I enjoy it very much.

I will save you the background of why and how I select my clients, that is for a different time, or if you are curious, you can send me an e-mail. However. On with the review.

I spent some time in Amsterdam for Picnic 2008. It was a great conference, and I always enjoy talking about empressr (www.empressr.com). I have been to Amsterdam on behalf of empressr before at Next Web 2007. The hopitality in Amsterdam is amazing. Everyone is interested that you have a good time and most importantly that you are safe and comfortable. Many thanks to my friends in Amsterdam for taking such good care of me.

This time, I stayed at the Hotel Pulitzer. It is a rather nice hotel. Part of the Starwood family of hotels. I was greeted by a very friendly staff, who were very amicable and pleasant. The room was nice, sparsely decorated, but extremely functional (as all things Dutch tend to be).

As for rate, I feel like I received a very good value for what I paid. The staff provided a complimentary bottle of water and stroopwafels. If you have never had stroopwafels, you are in for a treat. They are pure heaven in a biscuit.

There was a breakfast buffet, that was the only negative point I would have to say of the entire stay. I stayed there for 3 nights, and only had the breakfast 1 morning. The breakfast was 27 euros, and definitely too expensive for what you get. Of course it is all you can eat, but I can not eat so much as to make it worth the cost. The coffee was good. The orange juice was average. The veal sausages were very very soft and tasty. I found the scrambled eggs to be average.

Right around the corner from the Hotel Pulitzer is a Turkish kabob stand which provides the most amazing doner kabob I had ever had. I think it was the bread that made it so tasty.

On a scale of 0 to “turn this plane around I need to be there”. I would say, don’t go out of your way to stay there, but if you find yourself in Amsterdam, it is a rather nice place to stay.

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