The citizenM hotel at Amsterdam airport has won the Most Innovative Hotel award at the European Hotel Design Awards 2008.

I attended the press launch of the citizenM hotel in Holland in June 2008 and reviewed the hotel. I do think citizenM deserves to win the award for innovation with features such as self check in, mood light settings in the bedrooms and public areas which feel more like a trendy living room than a hotel lobby.

If you can stay in a hotel of the standard from 69 euros a night it is affordable luxury, as long as you don’t mind the toilet capsule in your bedroom.