Eden Hotels

Eden Hotels is a genuinely Dutch family business whose story begins on 25 April 1947, when Doede Dijkstra bought a café in the Frisian village of Tzummarum. That single purchase turned the Dijkstras into a hospitality family, a trade that would pass through three generations and eventually grow into a nationwide hotel group.

How the Eden name arrived

Thirty years later, in 1977, Doede's son Sjoerd Dijkstra acquired the Eden Hotel on the Amstel in Amsterdam. It is this purchase that gave the group the name it carries today. In 1999, Sjoerd formally established Eden Hotels as a brand for what was then a group of three Amsterdam hotels.

Giving hotels back to their region

Under Léon Dijkstra, the third generation, the group made a deliberate choice: rather than imposing a single chain identity, each hotel keeps its own name, character and connection to its city. Only Eden Hotel Amsterdam, which was originally called that, carries Eden on its facade. The portfolio spans city centres across the country, including:

• American Hotel Amsterdam, The Manor Amsterdam and The ED Amsterdam
• Savoy Hotel Rotterdam, the group's first hotel outside Amsterdam
• Babylon Hotel Den Haag and Designhotel Maastricht
• City Hotel Groningen, Oranje Hotel Leeuwarden and Crown Hotel Eindhoven

A new chapter with Fattal Group

In 2024, Eden Hotels became part of the Fattal Group through its Leonardo Hotels division, marking a new phase of growth and strengthening the group's presence in the Benelux hospitality scene. The hotels continue to operate under their own names and local identities.

A family business, still

Now numbering fourteen hotels across three respected brands, Eden Hotels remains a familiar name in Dutch hospitality. The group celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2022, with the family openly aiming for the hundredth.

Culture

• Happy employees make happy guests: a belief the family says sits in the company DNA
• Eigenwijs, personal, fresh and unique: the four words the group uses to characterise every hotel
• Local before corporate: staff come from the neighbourhood and know the ins and outs of their city
• The long term view: three generations of the Dijkstra family, with an eye on the hundredth anniversary

Human Resources

Eden Hotels is convinced that happy employees create happy guests, and treats every colleague as part of the wider family business.

• Roles across fourteen hotels in city centres throughout the Netherlands
• Strong local connection: teams are recruited from the surrounding neighbourhood
• Genuine responsibility handed to each hotel's General Manager and team
• A working culture where corporate social responsibility is taken seriously across the whole company