This was my first time in Amsterdam so I didn’t know the layout of the city very well, and I know it is my responsibility to do the research about the areas, but when I read “houseboat in Amsterdam,” I imagined something cozy on a small quiet canal with windows looking out onto that canal. Amsterdam has lots of that. But this place is not that. It is on a major waterway, next to a busy, noisy road (day and night), and it has no water view at all because it sits low and has other big boats parked between it and the open water. It is bigger than I expected, clean, nicely decorated with great showers, and it is close to the Central Station which makes it easy to walk to and easy to get public transport from, but I do wish I’d spent more time doing my google map research. It was not what I naively thought it was.