Daan was a great host - helpful and very friendly, which gave us a good impression about the city to start with.

The boat was very spacious, well equipped and amazingly quiet, given there were so much going on outside on the river. There were enough rooms for our group of four adults and two kids. The owner even provided a great collection of DVD titles in his boat so you could always keep yourself entertained. All of us enjoyed the stay very much (my son kept asking me "when can we go back to our boat?" when we did our sight seeing there).

The location of the boathouse, as the name indicates, is so central that you are virtually within walking distances to many attractions, Rembrandt House Museum, Heritage Amsterdam (where Van Gogh was exhibited until the end of Apr 2013), Handbags and Purses Museum (the one and only in the world) and many others. I had my best coffee of the trip at a corner coffee shop (Puccini) about 5 min away and the restaurant opposite was equally brilliant (Frenzi).