For a short time within the Dutch Golden Age, there was one commodity that induced a form of mania among the many residents of the capital’s canals: the standard tulip. (On the top of the bubble, a few bulbs may price as a lot as some homes within the metropolis.) Certain, immediately you possibly can nab just a few tubers for a handful of euros on the metropolis’s floating flower market—however that hasn’t stopped green-thumbed vacationers from assembling each spring to expertise tulip fever anew.

It is sensible, then, {that a} recent guard of accommodations is branching out—fairly actually—into Amsterdam’s leafier corners. (Given town’s environment friendly trams and 250 miles of bicycle paths, being a bit eliminated is hardly an issue.) Take Pillows Maurits on the Park, the most recent lodge from a boutique family-owned group, which opened late in 2022 inside a stylishly renovated former college constructing within the idyllic Oosterpark. In addition to providing its very personal aviary, the lodge is a mere 15-minute stroll from town’s Hortus Botanicus, one of many world’s oldest botanical gardens. (On a go to final spring, I spent the perfect a part of a morning gazing on the dazzling array of crops that tower underneath the hovering glass ceilings of its greenhouses.)

In the event you’re prepared to enterprise even additional afield, a historic salon boat, which has been retrofitted with an electrical engine, can transport you to the lately opened lodge De Durgerdam, located in a former fishing village, in lower than an hour. (It’s a 15-minute drive, if you happen to’re in a rush.) There, 14 rooms overlook the dappled grey waters of the IJmeer lake on one aspect and low-lying farmlands on the opposite—on a current winter go to the landscapes revealed themselves by means of a briny, mirage-like mist. Enter its jewel-box interiors, nonetheless, and a distinct ambiance is conjured: With its flickering candles and dusky palette, it has all of the convivial attraction of a picaresque Frans Hals canvas.

After all, there are many extra established Amsterdam stays that can cater to plant-loving pilgrims, such because the sprawling, 93-room Waldorf Astoria, which incorporates one of many metropolis’s largest non-public grachtentuinen (or canal gardens). Later this 12 months, an unlimited new Rosewood outpost will open with three verdant interior courtyards. Additionally upcoming: Amstel 111, a brand new and extra centrally situated property from the crew behind De Durgerdam, whose interiors are set to be crafted by cult New York design duo Roman and Williams with structure from rising star Frida Escobedo. Let a thousand tulips bloom.