Riks seems like a good host - he welcomed us to the house with a smile and even recommended some places to visited. His house is in a super convenient location just 7 minutes walk way from Amsterdam Centraal station. You can also get to most of the sight seeing places in less than 30 minutes or so. Included breakfast was eggs, bread, cheese and meat and was available until noon which is nice. There we other guest at the house when we were staying there, but they were really quiet and we only saw them at the breakfast table.

Sadly, there were some downsides to this place as well. The two the really stuck out were (and are related) was heating and hot water. The room is heated via a single small radiator which took a while to change the temperature of the room even on the "max" setting and it never quite got warm enough for my Californian liking. Additionally, the radiators would go cold at night so the temperature in the room would drop. Luckily, we were provided with giant covers that helped us fight the night, but we still wished we had better heated room. Second, hot water was an issue as well for showering. We could not take early morning showers as there was no hot water (I am guessing the same heater controls water for room heating and water for the shower). Once we finally did get some water, it was only for a 5-10 minute shower, so the second person half way into their shower would get scolded with freezing water. That does not seem like much, but after hours of walking in cold Amsterdam all we wanted was a nice long hot shower.