We had a wonderful 6 night stay at the Sonder Amsterdam. Steven (and crew) were EXTREMELY helpful and attentive. We initially chose Sonder because of the location and that couldn’t have been better. It’s located just off Vondlepark on the edge of the busy tourist area and very close to the museum quarter. We walked everywhere, but you could just as easily take the bus or tram as the stop is within meters of the hotel. Initially, we were a bit confused by some of the reviews. From what we were told, the Sonder group has (recently) taken over the previous hotel and has been slowly renovating it. That being said, there are a few minor things we noticed. For example, in our room (343 – 4th floor) the curtains definitely needed to be replaced and there was an old stove pipe hole in the wall that was just stuffed with some crumpled up paper – but neither of those were major issues for us and the staff mentioned that those would be taken care of with the continued renos. One other minor issue was the fact that other guests weren’t very courteous when closing their room doors – as it was quite loud when the doors slammed shut (our suggestion was to put up signs in the hallway reminding guests to be courteous). That being said, we were fairly spoiled and had the entire floor to ourselves for the majority of our stay. Worth noting is that if you are on an upper floor you do have to walk up several flights of (steep) stairs. We are in our late 40’s/early 50’s and it wasn’t too bad for us but we are fairly fit and only had carry-on sized bags when we arrived/departed. All-in-all we would stay here again, and would recommend it for someone visiting Amsterdam for a few days and up to a week (provided you are ok with being in a fairly typical European sized room).