Fletcher Hotel de Zalm

Dated, moldy, dirty. Only plus is the location and the parking, the staff was pleasant. This hotel needs a massive upgrade. From the very dirty broken carpet, to the moldy bathroom, to the broken or missing lamps, to the very stuffy dusty air in the room, to the run down furniture, the ready for the dump matrassen. My husband considered sleeping in the car since he couldn’t breathe. All this for 165euro a night. Do yourself a favor; keep your money. Fletcher should be ashamed of this hotel.

I was concerned by some of the reviews I read on Tripadvisor. I'm pretty picky, and I'm always worried about claustrophobic rooms when I visit old European properties. But I found the hotel to be very charming, clean, comfortable, with a spacious room and very good service. True, the carpeting is old and could use an update, but it's a three-star hotel and what you get is a fine three-star hotel. If you're looking for a Holiday Inn, you shouldn't stay here. But if you're looking for a charming boutique hotel, right on the central square of a charming Dutch town, with local charm and flavor, this is the place for you.

Room was as I had anticipated from the reviews and photos that it was very dated with faded carpet etc but clean and a very big family room with the two kids single beds up a very steep set of wooden stairs in the room (so steep that I actually had my youngest sleep downstairs and I slept upstairs as I was concerned that if he woke in the night for the toilet which was downstairs he might fall down them). The room was very warm so windows open was a must. The noise from the bar outside the room finished at around 12:30am and then young people sat shouting and drinking in the square outside the room until about 3am. Not great for a family room. Whilst I know this wasn’t the hotels fault, when I told staff at checkout about this their reply was ‘yes it’s always like that, bad isn’t it.’ I did say that had I know the family room looked over a noisy square where people congregated at night I wouldn’t have booked it and they should probably tell people this, the staff said thank you. Also there is a window next to the two childrens beds in the upstairs part of the family room that doesn’t have a curtain on it so whilst the main windows do have good curtains, if your children wake up to light there is a lot coming in that room in the morning. A shame as you’d have thought that was an easy fix for the hotel so why they’ve not done it I don’t know. Lovely town, hotel dated but nice but just not much sleep on a Friday night after a long day travelling from the Uk with children.