From the booking process to checking out, Brendan & co made everything so simple! We arrived at Nest to be greeted in person and shown round the apartment. It made the trip more personal to have our own home in Amsterdam, be it only for 3 nights! The apartment was bright & quirky with everything you could possibly want - great clean living areas, complimentery mini bar (great biscuits!), brilliant selection of videos! We were most impressed by the under floor heating in the bathrooms! We will definitely be back to stay in one of the other apartments!

This was the second time we have stayed in the Escape Apartments. June 2007 we stayed in their 'High' apartment which was fantastic. This time we stayed in the 'Nest' apartment. It was great - lovely views and great accomodation - the unusual quirky decorative style is brilliant (although it wouldn't suit anyone over 6 foot tall!) The heated floor in the bathroom was great!

The staff are very friendly and helpful and the online msn is great for restaurant ideas etc. and they certainly mean what they say when they say they are 'smoker friendly'!

We will definitley be back.

There isn't much that I can add to all of the glowing reviews already posted here . . . I spent a whole week in the "Nest," a small one-bedroom apartment on the top floor of a canal house just a few doors north of Nieuwmarkt. The location was terrific, it had all the elbow room I needed, it was really well-furnished, and the large living room windows looked straight down over a canal and street. I felt like I was "living" in Amsterdam for a week, instead of just "visiting."

The service was great. Despite being a smoking apartment (the company caters heavily to smokers of various . . . things), it was impeccably clean. I'm pretty low-maintenance, so I didn't wind up needing/asking much from the staff during the week - but when I did, they were always very quick to respond and were really friendly about it.

One caveat: tall people may be better off in one of Amsterdam Escape's other units. Being 6'3, I managed to bump my head quite a few times on the beams that stretched across the A-frame apartment. The stairways up to the apartment looked really daunting at first, but I got used to them quickly after the first climb (thankfully, the staff had already carried my luggage up for me). Also, because I'm used to sleeping on an extremely luxurious bed at home, it was a big adjustment to the much thinner mattresses there, but I can't honestly hold that against Amsterdam Escape (I'm just spoiled in that respect).

Euro for Euro, Amsterdam Escape blows any ordinary hotel in the city out of the water. It's not even a contest. I'll gladly head back for another stay.

We rented Amsterdam HQ for the weekend and had a top time - the location just could'nt be any better and the place was clean, warm and comfortable.

Not a 5 star hotel but not trying to be either - really comfortable and just perfect.

There were only 3 of us which worked pretty well - but could have fitted a couple more in.

Would def go and stay again.........