Our host (Ronne Aarts) made everything (e-mail and phone communication) to make us feeling welcome and he was very flexible with our arrival and departure times. The description that was available on the webb agrees very well with the reality. Since we were looking for a genuine way of living in a houseboat, we enjoyed the environment as it is. It is not in the city center, but slightly outside. It is located in a more calm and relaxed district compared to the center, with good possibilities to swim in the canal. The host let us use his bikes which made it possible for us to go to the center in convenient ways. Furthermore, from the location it is easy to make other types of trips (e.g. by the bikes), to other nice places, which were even more calm (e.g. Tuindorp/Nieuwendam, Durgerdam, and other places more to the north). The boat itself is not a luxury one. On the other hand, it had everything what we were looking for. Furthermore, when we stayed at the boat we believe that we got an image of the life on a real houseboat, and this was something that we wanted - something genuine.