Have visited Amsterdam many times over the past 35 years but have never spent time in this district of De Pijp, just immediately outside the innermost core of the city. Loes' place gave me a great excuse to explor -- at the end of long days of other excursions -- this remarkable, lively, diverse, multicultural area. (I was especially thrilled to find a branch of the reknown South-Indian restaurant, Saravana Bhavan, just around the corner. If you don't know South Indian food -- idli, dosas, uttaphan, with sambar and fresh chutneys -- this is the place. (Just order from the first few pages of the menu, as the later pages also offer the more familiar North-Indian dishes.)
For access to Amsterdam's great museums, this place is only about a 15-minute walk to the Museumplein and a five more minutes to the Vongelpark. To the well-known inntermost district of concentric canals, you're literally just a 5-minute walk. For my particular agenda, I didn't even need to use public transportation except for getting to/from the train station. (Tram #4)
Loes' place is really as great as many other guests have already described. It was fantastic to have so much space and so much privacy in a city where both are at a premium.