My wife and I stayed at Joop's place for 3 nights. The apartment's location is perfect, situated on a quiet canal street but in walking distance to everything Amsterdam has to offer. There is a large supermarket a block away and tons of restaurants within walking distance if you don't feel like cooking. The flat itself is part of a larger old house. The flat takes up the entire second floor, there is another rental on the first floor, and we were told that Joop lives on the top three floors (although he wasn't there during our stay). The apartment is very well kept but the layout is a little bit odd: the main living room area and bedroom are in the front of the house. The living room has a large dining table and huge windows looking out to the canal providing great light and views. The bedroom has sliding doors that lead into the living room in the back of the front side of the house so it is nice and secluded from any street noise. There was no tv in the bedroom/living room area. The bathroom and kitchen are on the opposite side (back side) of the house and are connected to the bedroom/living room by a shared hallway. We were told that Joop would be the only other per person to use the hallway and since he wasn't in town it wasn't a big deal. That being said it would have been somewhat weird walking to and from the bathroom not knowing if you were going to run into someone...Other than that the kitchen/dining area was a good size and the bathroom was typical for Europe. Overall the flat is very charming, clean, and really well situated.