Suitehotel Pincoffs: the most sustainable Hotel in Rotterdam

“Green is fun” is the outlook of Edwin van der Meijde and Karen Hamerlynck. Together they run Suitehotel Pincoffs on Kop van Zuid, the greenest hotel of Rotterdam, according to the owners. And it probably is, for they do their best to be green in every possible way, and they’ve come up with some very original and creative ideas when it comes to the interior of their hotel. It even earned them a mark of quality.

“We don’t do this because we have to,” Edwin says, “I get tired of the idea that everyone has to be green all of a sudden. I believe the message sinks in much better when you do this from the heart, when it fits in the concept and when it shows in the details.” The Devil is in the details, but at Suitehotel Pincoffs they seem to enjoy making every little thing sustainable, up to the key rings. For instance: their bedside tables are made of recycled bicycle tires. Just as the key rings these were created by artist Jan Willem van Breugel from Wheels On Fire. 

 

  

For the business suite they invited a couple of other artists to design the interior, including Liesbeth van Ginneken. The theme was, unsurprisingly, recycling. A theme recurrent throughout all of the hotel. As a result there are a lot of different styles and materials visible in the hotel, and that is very much to their liking. Edwins: “I am a perfectionist, but I love imperfections. Imperfections are exciting.”

The latest green initiative by Suitehotel Pincoff is the Pincoffs Panama Project. Every company that has a meeting in the hotel gets a tree for a present. Not the actual thing, of course, but some certificate that represent a new tree that will be planted in Panama. So far they have planted 21 trees, but they plan on giving away one thousand of these trees. That's a small forest.

For these efforts the hotel received a mark of quality: The Green Key Label, but as said, that’s not what this hotel is after. Edwin: “I just like to combine luxury and sustainability. The hotel needs to be as green as possible, but our guests shouldn’t be troubled by this, and they shouldn’t pay the bill. You can’t complain about the fact that being green is a bit more expensive, you have to take it for granted. Our hearts say that we need to be careful with what this world has to offer."


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