This is my first time staying in a house boat, although I have been to Amsterdam more than a dozen times. The houseboat is an interesting experience, especailly nice in the morning and night without much canal traffic, with nice reflections of the buildings, sunlight and ocassion ducks/seabirds on the calm canal water. Anita was quite accommodating and enthusiastically gave me useful local advises to even a seasoned traveler in Amsterdam. I love my stay very much. If you are a light sleeper, the large boat-bar on the other side of the canal can sometimes be noisy until 3 am in the night. Also there is not much space for large luggage which was not an issue for us. Overall, I enjoyed the stay very much.