# Crane Hotel Faralda

- **Location:** Netherlands
- **Categories:** Lookout & Lighthouse, Architectural & Historic Marvels
- **Style:** harbour crane suites, industrial monument, panoramic city, rooftop hot tub
- **Canonical page:** https://farfables.com/stay/crane-hotel-faralda-462cd61b-ce34-4d6f-88cf-f53fce58c6b1

Suites in a harbour crane, 50m up

Three two-level suites stacked inside a monumental shipyard crane on Amsterdam's NDSM wharf — the Free Spirit at 35 metres, the hidden Secret Suite at 40, the Mystique at 45 — each a private world above the IJ, with a music studio for 85 guests halfway up the mast. The crane still turns slowly in the wind, so the skyline literally rotates around you. The catch: Now run as a private venue: stays are by request and invitation only, and a swaying crane reached by lift and steep stairs is no place for vertigo or limited mobility.

## What's the catch?

The machine was never built for guests — a lift and steep industrial stairs to a cab that sways in the wind, and a rig is a dive resort before it is a hotel.

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