I will try to be as objective as I can in describing my experience in Marta`s house.Both the advantages and disadvantages of it.
Advantages: not bad breakfast in the mornings and Marta is kind at moments and let me use her computer twice when I asked her and also gave me some extra pillows that I needed to sleep better in her most uncomfortable sofa bed because the bed is not comfortable at all and very small for two persons.
Disadvantages: 1.- too far from the center of the town. You have to walk 10 minutes to the bus stop and then 25 more minutes to the center of the town. Back and forth. Plus the expenses incurred in taking a bus which are a lot. We spent more than 120 euros only in bus tickets. Not worth the price of her apartment. 2.- The room has nothing to do with what is shows in the website. Much smaller, not very clean, bed extremely uncomfortable and too small for two persons and even worse the sofa bed where I was obliged to sleep because the first night I could not sleep for even one hour. 3.- Bathroom extremely small and dark. All in black with no window at all. Quite dirty to be honest. She doesnt seem to clean anything in that house very often. I had to empty the garbage trash in the bathrom twice. .4.- She has a cat who walks to your bedroom whether you like it or not. It also jumps onto the table where you have breakfast or where Marta prepares food and puts its nose and mouth on the food. I have nothing against cats or dogs but it is not correct to let your cat enter other`s people bedroom or jump on the table where they eat food, less touch the food they are going to eat. The house in general is quite messy and dirty. 5.- Marta can be nice at moments but also very cold and not caring about her guests at other moments. Not any sign of being hospitable and offer a cup of tea or anything else. The day we left I was shocked by the most impolite and rude way she talked to me because I had dirtied a small towel with orange juice and then she told us to go out and wait for the taxi because she was in a hurry and had to go, so we had to wait in the cold rainy weather. If I ever go back to Amsterdam because it is a very nice city, I will never ever go back to her house and would never recommend her to any of my friends.
I am sorry to be so honest and frank but this is my real experience in her house and with her. Not a good one indeed.