This small three star hotel stands in farmland near a village east of Maastricht. Full of character, it is furnished with antiques, old toys, ornaments and objets d”art; the bar has an aviary with tiny birds; the lounge has a floodlit fish tank and little night-lights under glass domes. There are “lots of places to sit, indoors and out”.Residents are offered a four-course dinner. “Food was tasty'. Small but adequate wine list. Some bedrooms are small, three have a whirlpool bath, one has a small roof terrace with plastic grass. The excellent breakfast buffet includes hot bacon and scrambled eggs.” Light lunches are served. In the large garden, loungers, tables and parasols surround a pond with “special diving ducks”. Many guests are American: Margraten has the third largest US war cemetery in Europe and is the site of the graves of more than 8,000 American soldiers.