Faber in Zandvoort

The Faber hotel is a 32 rooms family hotel well located in Zaandvoort. Rooms are big and comfortable (great bed). Moreover the hotel and particularly the rooms are super clean and maintained.
Despite those great points we were surprised by how noisy the hotel is. There was a huge lack of soundproofing in our room which led to hear speeding cars, barking dogs, seagulls (a lot) and other customers of the hotel all night long.
On top of that, only stripe curtains are installed on the window. The darkest configuration of the room allows you to read a book easily from 5:30AM. Because of that noise and light, my partner and I weren’t able to sleep after 5:20AM on both nights. Finally, beyond noise, the absence of double glazing leads the windows to warm up the room quickly and strongly. Added to synthetic material duvet, those temperature make us sweat a lot which worsened our already tough nights.
Common areas are outdated and make the hotel look like a 1960’s hunting lodge (stuffed boar heads and deer’s skulls hanging on the wall) or a weird paintings museum. Depending on your shape, you might want to know that it is a 3 floored hotel without an elevator but with very steep and narrow stairs.
Coffee and croissants are some disgusting industrial products but fresh orange juice is pretty good.
The evening host is extremely cold but we finally appreciated the owners accepted to cancel and reimburse our 2 remaining nights without cancelation fee which was a great gesture of goodwill.