Amicitia

Good for travellers on a budget. If you just need a place to sleep and shower this is for you! The cabins are very small but it’s clean showers and toilets are clean although toilets smell abit of sewage. Can hear EVERYTHING so not good for light sleepers. Can chill out up stairs (tables and sofas). I can’t rate the breakfast as I slept in, doesn’t offer tea or coffee or any refreshments (even water) outside breakfast hours but :-) I’d stay again as it was in my budget and I only needed a place to sleep and shower I was out all day and most of the night…… A vending machine is definitely needed for this place. 15min walk to Dam Square

The room we had was filthy and we saw 4 cockroaches on our 4 night stay in our room and the breakfast/communal room. There was thick dust on the floor in plain view so no excuse that it wasn't seen by owners. Dogs running throughout including the kitchen during breakfast servings. Owner and friends smoking at kitchen door which you could smell in breakfast room. I approached them about the cockroaches and they seemed surprised and asked if I was sure. I showed them a photo I took of one of them on floor and the dead one we stood on the first day we turned up. They agreed it was cockroaches and they made a big deal of searching our room. It felt like they were saying I was lying. There was no access to the kitchen or fresh water except during breakfast. I had to ask if they could leave the kettle out in the breakfast room so we could at least make a hot drink during the day/evening. The only time we saw the host was during breakfast. The beds were the most uncomfortable I have ever slept in. They had radiators in the rooms but it was so hot the first night when I woke in the morning I couldn't breathe. No ventilation except the portholes but you couldn't really sleep with them open as 2 of them are right where you sleep. Then a couple of days later there was no heating so it was freezing. Couldn't see host until the next morning. This trip was the worst trip I have ever had to Amsterdam. I usually stay in hotels which are immaculate I stayed here with my daughter and we both came home really ill. I wish I had read the reviews before we booked. We were glad to get home but now we are suffering.