I stayed at the Residence Inn The Hague in April 2023. As noted by others, the location is quite convenient to the main square and a mere 500m from the Mauritshuis which is home to (amongst other things) Vermeer's famous Girl With A Pearl Earring.

If you're driving to the Residence Inn, don't set your GPS to the hotel address. Set it to the Q-Park Muzenplein. The P1 level of this lot has a direct connect to the hotel. You can get your ticket validated at front desk and it's cheaper (can't recall how much but it's worth the effort getting it validated).

Floors 0 to 8 of this building are the Moxy Hotel and 9 to 18 are the Residence Inn. To get to the Residence Inn, you actually enter the Moxy to get to the elevators. When I was there, the Moxy was noticeably cheaper vs the Residence Inn, but the rooms were also quite a bit smaller (max 18 sq.m). The lobby for the Residence Inn is on the 9th floor. Also on this floor is the restaurant and the laundry machines.



Strange layout to the elevator buttons, but it works.


Main lobby of the Residence Inn + restaurant to the right.


View from the lobby.


Another view from the lobby. Not much to see really.



The hotel has 17 rooms per floor except on 18 where there are only 8.

At checkin, I was told the washing machines are free and was also offered one pod of washing powder. As I travel with my own washing powder, I didn't use theirs but I did use the washing machine. They have 3 high-tech Samsung machines and 3 similarly high-tech dryers. The washing machine was surprisingly slow - I put my stuff in, selected an Eco wash and the display indicated a cycle that would take 2h 58 min!! When I went back, someone had already taken my stuff out - I don't know when this happened - but my clothes were very wet. It's as though the machine didn't go through a spin cycle which I suppose is possible if the other person took my stuff out early. Anyway, I hung my clothes up in my room and it all turned out OK - clean clothes for free!

As for the room, I was upgraded to a suite on the 18th floor.



Kitchen was functional and came with everything you'd need to make a simple meal. Alas, I only used it to make some tea.


My first ever bi-level suite!


Plenty of space in this bi-level suite but only 1 bed (King size) upstairs.


Yup - it's a King bed.


It looks like, and felt like, a long way down!


If you want to watch TV, you stay downstairs.


The bi-level suite was nice and I enjoyed it. But in the end, it wasn't terribly practical. What to do with luggage? Lug it up the stairs or leave everything downstairs? Ultimately I elected to leave everything downstairs since that's where the closet is, and it was easier vs carrying stuff upstairs. But then when you need to use the bathroom, it's down the stairs you go then back up for bed. Leaving a light on to navigate the stairs was impractical because it was too bright upstairs. Fortunately I travel with some USB rechargeable lights I found in Singapore so that solved that.

A downside to this hotel is the small restaurant. At breakfast it can get pretty crowded and they run out of food fairly quickly. They do replenish of course, but I think the kitchen is downstairs in the Moxy so there's a delay as hot items are cooked / cold items plated then brought up to the 9th floor.



A bit crowded at breakfast.


The tables are fine for 2 people, but as soon as you get a group, the tables get used up very fast.



Fine for 2.


A little less fine for 3+ people but still workable.


If coffee is your thing, be prepared to wait for the one machine.

Would I stay here again? Yes - absolutely! The free laundry machine came in handy, the location is excellent, and at nighttime it was quiet and safe. What more could you ask for? It's not a luxury hotel by any stretch (I don't think they even have room service available), but it's clean and convenient, and if there's anything you really desperately need, you're just a few hundred metres from restaurants and stores that all seem to stay open until quite late.
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