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Hotels In Amsterdam: hotels in amsterdam are generally grouped in four main categories: commercial or transient hotels in amsterdam; resort hotels in amsterdam; residential hotels in amsterdam; and motels, or motor hotels in amsterdam. In the United States about 75% of the hotel rooms (excluding motels) are in commercial hotels in amsterdam, 16% in resort hotels in amsterdam (both summer and winter seasons), and the remaining 9% in residential hotels in amsterdam. About 80% of the American motel rooms are in commercial establishments and the remainder in resort motels.
Amsterdam began in 1204 as a dam in the River Amstel. The town eceived its first charter from Guy of ^ainaut in 1300 and developed rapidly is a trading centre.Amsterdam is located in the province North Holland, on the south bank theY, an arm of the Zuider Zee, nd is a major rail and canal centre.Amsterdam's chief industries are amond-cutting, sugar-refining, ship-uilding, brewing, distilling and the anufacture of soap, oil, glass, tobacco id leather goods.
A wing of it still houses the War Museum of American Relics, the only one of its kind in Europe. Two or three miles away is Margraten Military Cemetery, where, at one time, nearly 18,000 G.I.'s, most of whom had fallen in Holland, lay buried.
Amsterdam, the Hague-Scheveningen and Rotterdam all have luxurious hotels in amsterdam as well as excellent ones of first-class standing. A condensed list follows.
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