Sleep in Style in an Art Hotel in Amsterdam

CNN recently published a list of art hotels: Places where budget travelers can stay in rooms designed by artists.
One of these hotels can be found in Amsterdam's Red Light District : The Winston.

Located in the Red Light District on the oldest street in Amsterdam, the Winston, now owned by the English hotel group St. Christopher's, has quite a past. The previous owner, the late Frans Verlinden, cultivated a bohemian atmosphere in the 1980s and '90s, with "hookers, journalists, filmmakers, but most of all, artists" as frequent guests, explains manager Donald Kauwoh. Verlinden spearheaded the art-hotel trend and hired artist Aldert Mantje to select colleagues to decorate rooms and install temporary exhibits. While it started out being fairly avant-garde -- guests may have encountered dead leaves and even, possibly, an animal corpse on display -- the hotel has mellowed somewhat in recent years.

Notable Rooms: The anime-inspired Playnation room, by Adriaan Koster and Menno Schenk, sports psychedelic swirls and patterns on the walls, a Pac-Man-like maze on the ceiling, and a giant 3-D gold robot in the corner. Madelein de Bruijn, meanwhile, envisioned the Energy room as a life-size circuit board: Flow lines track a course along the yellow walls, and there's a lightning-bolt hazard sign on the door.