Awesome unit, especially for small families. Here’s what we loved:
- Location. Seriously you’re in the heart of De Pijp, a super cool and vibrant part of Amsterdam. Close enough to the center to have a vacation but far away enough to get a real flavor of “local life”. Not to mention it’s super easy to get to anywhere in the city in a tram and grocery and pharmacy and such are all a very short walk away.
- Maarten was very responsive and even came by to help us get the windows to open (heat wave) and set us up with a fan.
- No stairs/ground floor unit. On the whole we don’t mind stairs, but other Airbnb’s we’ve stayed at in this city had stairs in the unit and the stairs in Amsterdam are steep enough that it gave us pause with a little one. Our four year old is a little monkey, but even she has trouble with the steep stairs in the Netherlands, so it was nice to not have to deal with that.
- The bed was so comfortable!! Omg it was amazing. I can’t even tell you how awesome we slept, even in the heat wave. (When we weren’t jet lagged of course)
- Checkin was super smooth. We used the lockbox and grabbed the key and were in no problem. Checkout was equally simple.
- Separate shows and huge bathtub. We could take a bath and a shower at the same time too! So helpful with kids.
- Fully equipped kitchen made it easy to prepare meals and the dishwasher made clean up a breeze.
- The washer/drier actually dried our clothes!!! We left Amsterdam with all our laundry clean. So great.
- Quiet for where it is. I expected a lot of noise being in De Pijp so close to AC market and the restaurants but it was not loud at all.
All in all it is a fantastic unit and I recommend it highly, especially to folks with little ones.