MERIDIAAN
Golden-hour view down an Amsterdam canal: brick gables, moored boats and calm water catching the last light

Slow mornings on the canal

Seventeen rooms in three gabled houses on the Meridiaangracht — brass, linen, and the middle of Amsterdam outside the door.

A linen-dressed bed beside a tall canal-house window, brass sconce glowing above the oak sill

The house

Three houses, one quiet address

Meridiaan keeps house in a row of 1680s canal houses on a bend of the Meridiaangracht, stitched together by crooked stairs and an unreasonable number of reading chairs.

Mornings are long here: breakfast until noon, coffee on the sill, boats idling past the window. The city waits — Dam Square, the Jordaan and the museums are all within a twenty-minute walk.

Life in the house
The breakfast salon: marble tables and bentwood chairs by tall canal windows

Life in the house

Breakfast until noon, honesty bar until late

A breakfast salon on the water, a reading salon with a real fireplace, deep marble baths, and black Dutch bicycles waiting by the door. Nothing you must do; plenty you may.

All amenities

Guest book

Kind words, left on the sill

✦✦✦✦✦“We came for two nights and stayed for five. The attic room, the fireplace, the boats going by — none of it felt designed to impress, which is exactly why it did.”
Clara & Mathias — Copenhagen
✦✦✦✦✦“Breakfast until noon is not a gimmick, it is a philosophy. Ask for the window table and cancel your morning plans.”
Tomás — Lisbon
✦✦✦✦✦“The staff drew our whole weekend on a paper map: a dusk walk, a brown café, the early slot at the Rijksmuseum. Every note was right.”
June — London

Direct is better

Write to us, we answer the same day

Booking directly gets you our best rate, a flexible arrival window, and a standing invitation to the honesty bar. Tell us your dates and we take it from there.

Enquire to book