Luxury Suites

Don’t expect the mainstream. This is a crane.
Hidden behind a heavy iron door lies one of Amsterdam’s best-kept secrets.
Once inside, you enter a completely different world.

This is Faralda Crane Hotel.

There is a heavy iron door at NDSM-Plein 78 in Amsterdam Noord. It does not have a sign. There is no doorbell to ring, no lobby to walk into, no reception desk waiting on the other side. Behind it is an elevator. The elevator rises through the steel skeleton of a monumental harbor crane, through the industrial architecture of a working monument until the doors open somewhere above Amsterdam, above the IJ, above the ordinary world entirely.

Mystique Suite

The highest of Faralda’s three vertically stacked suites, the Mystique sits at the uppermost reaches of the crane’s habitable space, with only the private rooftop Jacuzzi rising above it, open to the sky. From 45 meters, Amsterdam is not a backdrop. It is a panorama. The city unfolds in every direction below you, the IJ stretches toward the horizon, and the crane turns slowly in the wind around you. Height and intimacy. The Mystique is for those who understand that extraordinary places do not apologize for what they are.

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Secret Suite

There is a door at 40 meters that looks like part of the architecture.

Ten meters above the Free Spirit Suite, deeper into the crane’s structure, higher above the IJ, the Secret Suite occupies its own private level, hidden, deliberately unconventional, and entirely cut off from the world below. At 40 meters above Amsterdam, this is a room most people will never know exists. Those who find it understand immediately why it is called what it is.

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Free Spirit Suite

Some places are designed to impress. The Free Spirit was designed to liberate.

At 35 meters above the IJ river, the Free Spirit Suite is your entry into a completely different world, the first of three private realms stacked vertically inside the body of Faralda Crane Hotel, each one rising higher above Amsterdam than the last. From this height, the NDSM waterfront spreads out below you, the city extends in every direction, and the ordinary world feels precisely as far away as it should. This is not a room with a view. This is a room that is the view.

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Full Faralda Crane

Halfway the crane is the famous Faralda studio where World leading DJ’s play. Invite your friends and party all night long (Click here for conditions). A large panorama deck has unparalleled views over the city, the NDSM wharf and the IJ. A second elevator stops right in front of one of the three elite suites atop of the crane. Believe it or not, the crane turns slowly in the wind. Every moment a breathtaking view over Amsterdam and ’t IJ.

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