This was unfortunately a disappointing stay and not worth the price.
I’ll start with the good. Paradise responded quickly when you message her, which is good when I had questions. The other thing is that the photos of the interior was not misleading.
Now for the bad:
1. Having never visited Amsterdam before, I did not know what to expect with living above a coffee shop, but now I highly recommend NOT doing it. Abraxas opens quite early at 9AM and closes late at 1AM. Being on vacation, I want to be able to sleep well, but there was a myriad of people shuffling into Abraxas at all times of the day and disrupted my party’s sleep. Because of the high foot traffic of this coffee shop, people are constantly loitering in front of the Airbnb entrance door, so it is not a private entrance at all. I never dealt with anyone rude, but it was still inconvenient at times.
2. Adding to the above, for some reason people love walking through the alleyway of this Airbnb after a night out and would shout as loud as possible at 3/4AM multiple nights during our week stay here.
3. The kitchen and 3rd floor bathroom constantly smelled like sewers. It was unpleasant.
4. Wifi was horrible. It would constantly go in and out and when we were able to get onto the WiFi, it was extremely slow and almost unusable. Paradise did say she would help fix it when I informed her, but unfortunately it never got better. The TV on the 1st floor also did not work, which was unfortunate. Roy, the person who helped show us around when we first got to the Airbnb, spent almost 15 min trying to get it work when we first got there and we eventually told him he didn’t need to try anymore because it didn’t seem like it was going to be fixed.
5. Like I said earlier, the photos are not misleading but the photos are only taken during the day. There are actually very little light sources inside, which means at night it is quite dark. This makes maneuvering through the place troublesome at times.
I’m truly surprised how almost all previous reviews gave this place 5 stars as this was my least ideal Airbnb place ever. This Airbnb is also extremely expensive and I might as well have stayed at a hotel instead. Very disappointed with my stay.