One of Amsterdam Noord’s most affordable hotels, the 202-room Yotel takes its inspiration from first-class air travel, increasing the functionality of its compact ‘cabins’ with SmartBeds and fold-away desks and creating a futuristic feel with adjustable coloured lighting.

In a regenerated shipyard best known for its flea market, street art and urban beach bars, this nine-storey Hilton hotel has Ralph Lauren wallpaper and fountains in the lobby.

When the sign over the door reads “Don’t be shy, let’s sleep together”, you’re either in the Netherlands or the hotel is angling for a young clientele. In this case, it’s both, as this former tyre shop near the Vondelpark tries hard to make sustainability something hip and sexy.

The golden crocodile head that greets guests on arrival is the first of a menagerie of beasts decorating this quirky three-star hotel surrounded by bars and restaurants.

There’s plenty of fauna to investigate at this former university zoology faculty, surrounded by trees and parkland and with its own bat and insect hotels.

On one of Amsterdam’s chicest streets, between the designer boutiques of the PC Hooftstraat and the historic Rijksmuseum, this little hotel is high in style but surprisingly low in price, leaving culture lovers with a little leftover cash for tickets to the famous concert hall and galleries on its doorstep.

Luring millennials and Gen-Zers to the dramatic industrial docklands of the west is new-build Moxy, the cheeky teenage daughter of the Marriott family, which arrived on this remote promontory in 2018.

On a pristine man-made island, just a 20-minute tram ride from the centre, this huge zero-energy hotel is powered by the Dutch weather and uses a natural air-con system modelled on the humble termite mound.

Branding itself as “an urban hotel for digital natives”, CityHub’s capsule concept uses technology such as app-controlled mood lighting and speakers to pimp out the tiny L-shaped two-person pods its guests sleep in, which resemble space-age sleeper carriages in a long white train.

You’ve got your morning run covered with this brand new boutique hotel that’s practically nose-to-nose with the entrance to the city’s magnificent Vondelpark.

This boutique hotel by the Leidseplein entertainment district is the largest of the Vondel Hotel’s seven Amsterdam hotels but has a friendly feel with cosy communal areas enlivened by funky artwork.

Walking distance from heaps of the main attractions, this three-star hotel brings simple, affordable accommodation with luxurious touches such as box-spring beds, Egyptian cotton sheets and an organic breakfast.

This cool, self-consciously Instagrammable 13-floor hotel doubles as accommodation for students and does what it can to spread some of that youthful verve to the tourists and business travellers also staying there.

In a 1960s concrete hulk of a building in Amsterdam Oost, once offices for de Volkskrant newspaper, this 201-room “people’s hotel” aims to please.