Huizen
Trip Start
Sep 23, 2008
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Trip End
Oct 01, 2008
Huizen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Hotel Newport is a very nice hotel. Unless I'm deeply mistaken, the hotel is an all-suite hotel. Huge rooms, very nicely appointed, with ensuite kitchen and livingroom. Unfortunately I do not exactly know how much the cost since our biz secretary only said we got "a very special rate" and not divulging anything more.
Huizen is a small town next to a big lake (Huizen lake?). Hotel Newport is not an easy one to find, as it involves taking a dirt road that only leads to this hotel and apartment complex. Having said that, the hotel complex itself must be a very upmarket place, having its direct access to a marina where plenty of yachts are moored.
On my first day I took a walk around the hotel. Drizzling, as I expect Holland would be in September, but nice nonetheless. Walked around the marina, then doubling back towards the white-sands lake-beach. The pine-like trees made interesting sounds - whispey.. A short 10 minutes walk along the beach got us to the township's waterfront, with a strip of restaurants facing the lake. A chinese restaurant (Liang Tian, with the "Tian" - sky - missspelled to "Ting"), a Greek restaurant, and an English Pub. We ended up eating in the Greek Restaurant (couldn't recall the name - gosh, I need to remember that I need to get the restaurant names so that I can put in this blog) - not bad but not that great either (probably just me - don't really enjoy greek food, and very busy trying to dodge the Ouzo toast from others). Nice service from the nice proprietor though, so I'd recommend (if you can from my brief and incomplete description) to try it if you're there.
That was the highlight of my stay there. I was there for a meeting, so needless to say, throughout my Huizen stay (till 26 September) I only went out that once from the hotel!
Another thing I would say is that if you stay in Newport, do try the Indonesian food. Pretty genuine, Indonesian cooked, and a nice highlight as far as food goes - Indonesian always is my favorite, needless to say! :)
I went off on Friday 26 Sep, and stayed in Amsterdam Airport hotel following the Americans. Had a good time in the (newly found - I never realized that it was there!) Relay Pub in Sheraton Airport, and then getting pissed in the hotel lobby drinking a bottle-full of Johny Walker that we made a mistake putting PN in charge of pouring... overall nice first week in Holland...
