As part of a self guided bike tour, we were booked into this hotel just on the outskirts of Otterlo, and on the edge of the Hoge Velwue park in Holland.

This is a small guesthouse type hotel with a beautiful garden surrounding a quiet patio. You look directly out onto the national park. The road is lightly traveled and you will hear mostly the singing of birds. We had the tiny attic room, which while small, was quite nice. With the skylight in the bathroom and the window both open we had excellent cross breeze and the room was cool.

Downstairs a patio surrounded by a lush garden overlooks the park and
is a perfect place to just relax with a book and a coffee. It seems a place used mostly by Dutch tourists for weekend getaways as they do not have English versions of the dinner menus. This was not a problem, our server was very friendly and simply said, 'not to worry,
I'll help you'. We pulled out our phrase book and and quickly figured out the basics and... more