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SThe Sandboxtel
The Sandboxtel façade
Opened 2019 · Linderhoek

A modern reply
to a classic form.

The Sandboxtel was built in 2019 as a modern reply to Aurelia's nineteenth-century grand hotels — broad colonnades, tall windows, a lobby that opens onto a garden, and a twelve-storey bronze-and-cream block that folds around an internal park.

The Sandboxtel from the south
The brief

A garden hotel, on six hectares.

In 2015, the City of Veldenbrug put forward the western gate site of Linderhoek Park for a hotel — with a tight brief: a landmark building, five-hundred-plus keys possible, but only in a form that kept the park visible, walked-into, and, for the ordinary resident of Linderhoek, still felt like theirs.

Atelier Vos & Kellerman won the tender in 2016 with the scheme that was built: a twelve-storey block set back from the park's west gate, lifted off the ground on a broad colonnade, and folded around an internal garden that opens directly through the lobby into the park beyond. The hotel opened on 14 September 2019 with three hundred and twelve rooms across seven categories.

Interior staircase
Architecture

Oak, travertine, bronze, cream.

The palette was fixed early: Linderhoek oak (from a nearby working forest), Aurelian travertine from the quarries north of Kellerman, brass-bronze cladding from a foundry outside Veldenbrug, and a warm cream Portland-lime render for the upper storeys. Everything in the building, except for the Byredo amenities and the Dammann tea, is sourced within two hundred kilometres.

  • Architect: Atelier Vos & Kellerman
  • Interior: Studio Liska, Prague
  • Landscape: GROND landscape
  • Opened 14 September 2019
  • Site: 6.2 hectares
  • BREEAM Outstanding
A quietly ambitious building — unmistakably modern, unmistakably Aurelian — that understands the one thing a grand hotel still has to be: hospitable, at every hour.
Dezeen · Hotel of the Year 2020
The team

A small head office.
A large team on the floor.

The Sandboxtel has 412 employees. Most of them work on the floor — at the front desk, in the dining rooms, in the kitchens, in the spa — and the hotel runs a year-round apprenticeship programme with the Linderhoek Culinary Institute, the Veldenbrug Hospitality College and the Aurelia School of Horticulture.

Marieke Holst-Brenner

Marieke Holst-Brenner

General Manager

Marieke joined The Sandboxtel from the Hotel Kellerman in 2021. Before that, she spent twelve years with Aurelian hotelier group LHG, most recently running their Copenhagen flagship.

Astrid Lehn

Astrid Lehn

Head Chef, Verdant

A former sous at Noma and In de Wulf, Astrid joined to open Verdant in 2019 and earned the restaurant's first Michelin star in 2023. Her tasting menu is planted, harvested and finished from the hotel's own garden.

Rafael Ozenne

Rafael Ozenne

Head Concierge

Rafael has been at the door of the hotel since opening day in 2019, and was Head Concierge at the Aurelia Grand for fourteen years before that. Member of Les Clefs d'Or.

Sustainability

Built, and run, for the long term.

The Sandboxtel was designed to a BREEAM Outstanding certification and operates on 100% renewable electricity from the Aurelian grid. Full ESG and sustainability reports are published annually and available on request.

Timeline

A short history.

2015
The brief

The City of Veldenbrug opens a competition for a hotel on the western gate of Linderhoek Park.

2016
The winning scheme

Atelier Vos & Kellerman win the tender with a twelve-storey block folded around an internal garden.

2017
Groundbreaking

Construction begins in April. The first oak is milled for the interiors.

2019
Opening

The Sandboxtel opens on 14 September, with all 312 rooms and Parkzijde, Verdant and Atelier Café ready on day one.

2020
Dezeen Hotel of the Year

The architecture wins Dezeen's Hotel of the Year. The hotel closes briefly for the Aurelian lockdown.

2023
Verdant earns a Michelin star

Astrid Lehn's tasting menu at Verdant earns the restaurant its first Michelin star.

2024
Hot List

Condé Nast Traveller names The Sandboxtel to its annual Hot List, and Forbes Travel Guide awards the hotel five stars.

Visit

A room with your name on it.

All rooms are bookable direct on sandboxtel.com, at our Best Rate. Walk-ins are welcome at the porte-cochère any day of the year.

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Careers

Join the team

We are almost always hiring — kitchen, dining room, housekeeping, spa, concierge, front desk, events. Drop your CV at the stage door on Parkstraat, or apply online.

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