Rooms and doors of Sloterdijk
Hotels in Sloterdijk are modern, functional and busy, with keycard lifts, twenty-four-hour desks and rooms designed for business travellers and tour groups. They often have larger rooms than hotels in the centre at a lower price, with good showers and large beds. Short-stay apartments in converted office buildings are also common. The area has little nightlife: some hotel bars stay open late, but the streets between the towers are quiet after the offices close. Visitors are mainly business travellers, conference guests, tour groups and travellers catching an early train or flight. The lobbies stay busy at every hour with people arriving from the airport or leaving for it, which makes an evening visitor very ordinary. Walking distances between the station and the hotels are short, but the area can feel empty and windy after dark. Because so many guests here are catching early connections, hotels tend to be efficient about everything: quick check-in, luggage storage, taxis ordered at the desk. A visitor arriving for a guest at eleven fits into that constant movement without any questions from the staff.
