Brilliant place to stay if you want to be close to the centre without all of the evening commotion outside of your window. Whilst there is some noise outside from passing cars etc, so much quieter than if you were to stay right in the centre of Amsterdam. Only ever took us 20 minutes to get to the main square of the centre (this included the free ferry that you need to take across the river). The host was very helpful - for example, when we arrived we realised that we had left our adapter plugs at home but Eelco lent us some for the duration of our stay. He also printed our plane tickets for us as we could only check in the day before our flight.