Where would a traveler from America arriving by train to Nijmegen,
Holland, in 1948 stay overnight for a few days? He would arrive in the
Centrum (center of the city) Train Station and have money.

Hello lentionne-ga,

I have found an old hotel near Nijmegen, in the village of Beek,
called Hotel 't Spijker.

Hotel 't Spijker
http://www.hotelspijker.nl/spijker_uk.html

According to its web site, the hotel was occupied during World War II
but was "again ready for business at the end of 1947 beginning of
1948."  (Click on "History" to view this page.)

You can view its location by clicking on "Contact", then "Route Map",
and scrolling through the three maps.  You can also look at this page:

"Location / Plan" [link from page called "Welkom by Hotel 't Spijker"
at http://www.hotel-traveling.com/hotel/uk/eu/nl/holland/hotels/spijker/Hotel%20%26%2339%3Bt%20Spijker/
]
www.hotel-traveling.com / Bookings
http://www.bookings.nl/cgi-bin/showsubpage.pl?hotel=10842&subpage=10842_map.html%20&lang=uk&id=300384&via=search&via=homepage

You might want to contact the hotel to obtain further details of what
it was like when it reopened in 1948 and how an traveler would have
gone from the Nijmegen train station to the hotel.  You can click on
"Contact" on the hotel web site to find that page.

I hope that this information is helpful.

- justaskscott-ga


Search terms used on Google:

nijmegen hotel centrum
"hotel 't spijker" beek

[I tried several other searches as well, but the searches I have
listed resulted in the pages I have cited.]

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Request for Answer Clarification by lentionne-ga on 11 May 2003 14:48 PDT

Hello justaskscott:
What a great job you did! Thank you so much. If you can find another
hotel, that is great too. I also found one called the Sionhof, or
something similar. If can't find one more, then thank you for all that
you did.

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Clarification of Answer by justaskscott-ga on 11 May 2003 15:29 PDT

Thank you for the praise!

I don't know how I overlooked Sionshof -- I had actually seen the
name, but hadn't gone to the web site.  The site is only in Dutch, but
it seems to indicate that the hotel has existed since 1930.  (I don't
see an indication of how the war might have affected it; again you
might want to contact the hotel.)

Hotel Sionshof
http://www.sionshof.nl/index.html

I have not found another hotel that looks like it has existed since
1948 or earlier.  But if I put the question aside for a day or so, and
then try again, perhaps I might find something.

What a perfectly splendid answer, JustAskScott! You'd have gotten five
stars from me, had I been the questioner!

Thanks, magnesium!

As far as I'm concerned, when four stars are accompanied, as here, by
a statement like "Great job!", then I don't really miss the extra
star.  And even without any additional praise, four stars still
indicates a satisfied customer.