After booking the hotel we read the reviews on tripadvisor - usually our hotel Bible BEFORE we book! I must admit we were worried. However, we were pleasantly surprised when we got there. The staff were very helpful and spoke good English. Rooms were basic but clean - I'm not sure what people expect from a 2star hotel, but if you want the Ritz then pay Ritz prices! Breakfast was Dutch - bread, eggs, ham, cheese. Location about 5 minutes walk from Centraal station and the same to the RLD - perfect for seeing the sights. Not a 5star AI but a great place to crash if you just want a bed, shower and breakfast. We're going back very soon!

Stayed for 2 nights in a triple room, with two mates. A fourth member of the party had his own room.

We had to ascend the staircase of death to get to the room. Dutch staircases are not for the faint hearted or clumsy!
3 floors later, we arrived at door 11A.
When we opened the door, we were confronted with more stairs!
This led through a hatch into the roof of the building, where our 3 single beds were waiting.
Unlike earlier reviews, the room, sheets and towels were clean.
The only problem was the heat on the first afternoon.

Some thoughtful previous occupants had left us a gift of two pork pies in the fridge, and some chocolate based snacks were found in a cupboard.

The breakfast was ok, no problems there.
n.b. I'm NOT refferring to the previously mentioned pork pies, we decided to give those a miss!

The reception staff were reasonably friendly and helpful, offering to change our reservations, as one of our party had not been able to join us.

The hotel is a budget hotel, and on that basis, we couldn't find anything to complain about, cheap and cheerful really does apply to this place.

It's convenient for Centraal Station, and only a few minutes walk to the bars of the RLD.

I would never ever dream of staying here with my wife, but for a blokes weekend away, it was ideal, and I'm sure that we will consider it for our next 'jolly boys outing' to the Dam.

We were four blokes on a weekender, not looking for anything great just clean and comfortable.
On entering reception, my first impression was that the hotel was in need of a little TLC but nothing major. This obviously wasn't a multi-national chain hotel.
I shared a triple with two others while our fourth member had a double to himself. We were on the third floor, so up we went. No surprises with the first flight but flights two and three were the steepest stairs I have ever seen. They also curled around a corner and had very shallow steps which made coming down quite interesting. When we finally made the third floor our key didn't fit room 11 but there was a door marked 11A so we tried that. On opening the door we were greeted with another flight of stairs to what amounted to a loft conversion. Climbing this short staircase brought us up through a hatch into a loft which was as hot as hell.
What we had was the strangest, most old fashioned and basic room I had ever paid to stay in and to be honest I wasn't very impressed. However the beds were comfortable and the sheets were clean, though mine did have old stains which hadn't washed out properly.
The cross beams were a little low and were about as high as the bridge of my nose (though I am 6ft4) and the bathroom door was even lower, about shoulder high. Night time trips to the toilet were challenging and could be made slightly more so by not closing the hatch to the stairs.
Had I known what it was like before I went I wouldn't have gone but actually it grew on me and the climb became something of a joke between us. It is worth bearing in mind however that if there had been a fire, there is no alternative exit from the loft.
Breakfast was the usual cheese, ham, fruit juice etc. and reasonable really.

DO NOT STAY AT THIS HOTEL ! Booked the City Hotel 130 Prins Hendrikkade Amsterdam for 4 nights for 2 couples and 1 single starting 6.01.07. Arrived approx 11.00am requested we return after 1pm as our rooms were not ready ( which is fair enough ) and asked us for full payment for all 3 rooms which we did. Hotel and rooms had looked pretty good on web site and also reviews weren't too bad. When we returned and saw our rooms they were the most filthy, smelly, appalling rooms in a hotel we had ever seen !!!!!!!!!! walls, bedding, carpets, curtains and everything else was absolutely STINKING.
When I pulled back the bed cover in my room the blankets were covered in stains. I complained at reception and was given another room on the 3rd floor. This again was no better and this time when I pulled back the bed covers there were BLOOD STAINS on the SHEETS. The hotel was so dirty we did not want to stay and asked for our money back as all the rooms were terrible. We were refused a refund and so an hour long argument ensued. Eventually we cut our losses and ended up paying for 1night per 3 rooms which was 255 euros and we hadn't even unpacked. We found a brilliant 3 star hotel in the centre called the Best Western Eden Hotel which was excellent and in fact cheaper. DO NOT STAY AT THIS HOTEL