citizenM hotel Amsterdam City

Welcome to the hotel of the future, citizen Cheapo! The Citizen M offers a whopping 215 well-priced rooms with a unique, technology-infused ambiance that will thrill you if you like to control your whole world—from TV to A/C—with your fingertips and a remote control.

On the other hand, if you find shower and toilet pods stationed in the middle of guestrooms a tad disconcerting, you might want to move on to something more standard. No, that last line was not a typo. CitizenM's toilets and showers are housed in futuristic pod-like spaces that open and close at the push of a button. The shower even turns off automatically if you step away.

Rooms are decked out with satellite television, mood lighting and air conditioning that seeps through the walls—all of it controlled through a remote pad at your fingertips.

There's a Mac computer room in the lobby, plus a café offering a wide variety of snacks and juices. The décor is sleek and unapologetically modern, with a gaudy color scheme of reds and blacks.

The CitizenM Hotel's location, in Amsterdam's leafy Zuid-Amstel neighborhood, feels a touch removed from the action. If you don't mind that, and especially if you're good on two wheels, the techno-phile in you will love this hotel.

Wi-Fi is free throughout.