Conveniently located and clean. Very friendly and competent staff. The upstairs "penthouse" a great deal for four people who want kitchen facilities and privacy, provided they can climb the stairs which may be an obstacle for some. Only negative point but hard to avoid, some noise from airplanes in the a.m. as they arrive in Amsterdam.

Hotel Zandbergen was not at all like I pictured it. In large part because we were only in the hotel room for a very short period of time. You see, there was a mixup. We had asked for a "cot", an extra bed, as there was three of us going to stay in the same room. Well "cot" means crib in Europe apparently. And we were three fully grown adults. Due to being fully booked there wasn't many options for us.

Now this is where the Hotel Zandbergen has a gem up it's sleeve. They also operate an apartment next door and for 30euro more a night it could be ours. Being 9pm at night we were open to anything other than sleeping on the floor. So we took them up on the offer. Low and behold we walked into a spacious, two floor, two bedroom, 3 bathroom, 2 spare room, 1 entertainment room, 1 full size kitchen jaw dropping amazing apartment.

We were absolutely speechless the entire time we were there. This place was huge and an amazing treat (besides the weird 70's style wallpaper in one of the bedrooms).

The only bad thing was the main level bedroom had windows that opened onto a rather busy street. You could hear cars til 1am.

I would be open to staying there again let's just say that. :)

I would recommend staying slightly further out from the centre of Amsterdam, which I think could be quite noisy, and the area round this hotel is lovely: next to Vondelpark and near lots of good restaurants (Tapa Feliz is highly recommended). It's only 15-20 minutes by tram from Centraal Station; Amsterdam's public transport system is fantastic and I never waited longer than about 5 minutes. Also, it's a small city and you can easily walk to the canals and the museums, etc. The single rooms here are very small, but the bed was comfortable, there was very little noise from other rooms and the breakfast was very good. The owner and his staff are lovely: so friendly and helpful, going out of their way to make life easier: always a good thing.

Good location...very good breakfasts...delicious croissants (from Belgium)! Room was small, but clean. Reasonably priced. (There's a discount on-line if you book directly with them.) Front desk people were very nice and helpful.