De Roskam bills itself as a 4-star hotel, and indeed it has a few things going for it. It is situated beautifully in the countryside (next to a fairly busy road however), with a warmly modern bar and restaurant, clean rooms, decent food and friendly personel.
Not so bad it seems.
However, it took forever to check in, and then we tried to get a drink in the bar. The tables were sticky, dirty glasses everywhere and I ended up slipping behind the bar to find a rag to clean our tables with. A gentleman eventually showed up and confirmed when asked that he would come to take our orders and then left...and never came back. In the end the lady from the check-in desk made our drinks, she was friendly but obviously very inexperienced.
We mentioned this at the restaurant and got a "what goes on at the hotel is not our problem" type reply.
We had made our reservation for the restaurant at 6:30 with explicit mention of the two young children in our group who are used... more