We loved staying at this part of the city and Martijn & Kim’s place was a great home base. The main part of the room is quite spacious and well decorated. Our preferred route was bus 38 (which runs pretty often in the daytime, and every half an hour until around midnight) to the ferry, and then in a couple of minutes we'd be at Centraal Station - if you time it right, I'd say it's under 20 minutes and the view over the IJ river is an added bonus. We didn't have issues with the steet level location, but if you're not used to the noise of traffic/you're a light sleeper/sleep hot and want to keep the window open, this might not be the perfect place for you. We did sleep well (the bed is huuuuge) and had everything we needed for a 3-night stay. We'd happily come back. :)