Celebrate the Festive Season in Style at Amsterdam's Conservatorium

by Shrutee K/DNS

INDIA – One of Europe's most romantic destinations, Amsterdam, becomes even more magical when the city's breathtaking architecture is dusted with white snow and Christmas markets are spread out all over the city.  Iced canals, Amsterdam light festival boat tours, ice skating at the Museum Quarter, snow-covered cobbled streets, warming mulled wine and a wonderful winter cheer make Amsterdam the perfect location to celebrate the festive season and for welcoming the New Year. Guests can wrap up warm and spend the day at the Museum Quarter next-door, a perfect winter wonderland surrounded by the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk Museum, the Royal Concerthall Concertgebouw and the Van Gogh Museum. When paired with luxurious accommodations, an exclusive collection of festive menus and unique spa offerings, Conservatorium offers the ultimate escape for the festive season.

Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony

This year, Conservatorium will officially kick-off the festive season with their annual Tree Lighting Ceremony on Friday 8 December.

With a very special performance by the award-winning jazz-singer Madeleine Peyroux, the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw and Amsterdam University of the Arts, guests will marvel at the hotel’s giant tree which is this year decorated exclusively by Chopard - Swiss Luxury Watches and Jewellery. The tree will glitter with all the festive touches of Christmas and hotel guests staying in the hotel during the Christmas days will receive a special gift-bauble by Chopard to take home.

Christmas & New Year Dining

In the run up to the festive season, Executive Chef Schilo van Coevorden will be serving an exceptional range of seasonal menus, including four-course celebratory dinner menus on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve, complemented by expert wine pairings.  Highlights of the Christmas menus include refined signature recipes such as pheasant, crab, beef wellington and a parade of Christmas desserts. Celebrate New Year’s Eve with a luxurious culinary experience, including langoustines, Wagyu beef, black truffle and coquilles.

Festive Spa treatments

This feastive season, Akasha Holistic Wellbeing Centre offers pure indulgence with a range of hedonistic spa treatements. For a full spa experience and the perfect way to start the New Year, guests can immerse themselves in the Cocooning Scrub and Massage Ritual of 90 minutes which is both cleansing and invigorating. Designed to relax tired muscles and boost circulation, Akasha’s Cocooning Scrub & Massage Ritual is a complete natural detox that helps the body find its natural balance and to reawaken your senses. This ultimate exfoliating experience uses the Nude Body Scrub; a luxurious blend of sea salts, white sand, pink quartz crystal powder and aromatic oils which actively sweeps away dead skin cells, leaving skin wonderfully soft, silky, detoxified and youthfully radiant.

Christmas & New Year Package

Enjoy Amsterdam at its finest during the festive season with its special Christmas and New Year’s packages. Conservatorium offers a Christmas Package that welcomes you with a festive aperitif, followed by a special Christmas four-course dinner including wine pairings, a special boat tour over the canals to watch the Amsterdam Light Festival and a two-night stay including breakfast. The Conservatorium is also offering a Christmas Package that includes a four-course dinner including wine pairings, a private tour of the canals during the festive Amsterdam Light Festival and overnight accommodation including breakfast.

Ring in the New Year with us! Celebrate the beginning of 2018 with a memorable stay and a fitting New Year’s Eve celebration in the refined splendour and modern elegance of the Conservatorium hotel. Guests are welcomed with a glass of Champagne before they start with a four-course dinner, featuring a menu designed under the watchful eye of Conservatorium’s Executive Chef, Schilo van Coevorden. The evening continues with music and fesitivities in the Lounge and Tunes Bar well past the countdown and into the early hours of the newly dawned 2018 with live DJ’s, Champagne and dancing, before guests retire to the comfort of Conservatorium’s rooms and suites. Wanting to view the fireworks from your own private rooftop terrace? Book the I Love Amsterdam Suite and celebrate a New Year you’ll never forget. The Conservatorium remains the place to celebrate during the festive months with its prime position, perfect for designer shopping or for visiting some of the plethora of world-class museums in the city.

Christmas Package Two night's stay in a luxurious guestroom or suite including daily breakfast in the Brasserie for two A festive aperitif in the Lounge before your dinner Four-course dinner for two including wine pairing in the beautiful surroundings of the Brasserie A special water-colours boat tour on the canals of Amsterdam during Amsterdam Light Festival The Conservatorium ‘Christmas Package’ will be available from 24 December until 26 December and is available from €585,- per night. Including VAT, excluding 5% city tax, subject to availability.

New Year’s Eve Package Two night's stay in a luxurious guestroom or suite including daily breakfast in the Brasserie for two Four-course dinner for two in the striking surroundings of Taiko Restaurant including a welcome glass of Champagne Join the countdown to 2018 with us in our Lounge and Tunes Bar; live DJ’s, dancing and Champagne Late checkout until 2PM, subject to availability The Conservatorium ‘New Year’s Eve Package’ will be available staying on 30 and 31 December or  on 31 December 2017 and 1 January 2018 and is available from €615,- per night in a Deluxe Guestroom. Including VAT, excluding 5% city tax, subject to availability.  Conservatorium’s I Love Amsterdam Suite’ is available from €2.250,- per night. Including VAT, excluding 5% city tax, subject to availability.

For further information or to make a reservation: +31 20 570 00 075 or via email at reservations@conservatoriumhotel.com. For further information, visit http://www.conservatoriumhotel.com and follow @ConservatoriumHotel on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

About Conservatorium | www.conservatoriumhotel.com

In the heart of Amsterdam’s famous museum district, right opposite the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum and Stedelijk Museum and next to the luxury-shopping district, the P.C. Hooftstraat, lies the magnificent neo-gothic Conservatorium, standing on the former site of the Sweelinck Conservatory of Music. Comprised of 129 luxury rooms and suites on eight floors, the Conservatorium  welcomes hotel guests and Amsterdam locals alike to its popular restaurants, lounges and wellness spaces, including the buzzy lobby-level Brasserie and Lounge; the contemporary Asian culinary gem, Taiko; the specialty cocktail destination, Tunes Bar; and the state-of-the-art Akasha Holistic Wellbeing Centre. 

About The Set | www.thesethotels.com

Conservatorium, Amsterdam along with Hotel Café Royal, London and Lutetia, Paris (currently under renovation) is a member of The Set hotels, a collection which reinvents Grand Dame properties at the heart of some of Europe’s greatest cities – transforming them into diverse, dynamic places where artists, patrons and lovers of the arts meet.  Inspired by the artistic and imaginative heritage of the buildings and their locations, The Set authors a unique offering for the modern traveller: The height of classical refinement alongside leading contemporary design. Serenity and luxury at the centre of the metropolis. A character and approach informed by and intertwined with culture and the arts. Each hotel is crafted in its own unique identity and aesthetic to provide a truly distinctive luxury service and comfort. Under the visionary craft of David Chipperfield and Piero Lissoni our properties have been transformed from iconic buildings into world leading hotels. This legacy continues under the mastery of Jean-Michel Wilmotte’s reimagination of the Lutetia, Paris, due to re-open in 2018.

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