Pension Homeland

Good hotel about a 20 minute walk from Amsterdam Central station. Rooms are on the simple side but cosy and well heated with comfy beds. The shower in the bathroom also worked well. Some rooms overlook the water which gives a nice view. The main highlight of the hotel is the attached restaurant and café/bar. The food served here is very good and there are lots of comfy seating to wait out the rain. Staff are also very friendly!

This hotel is not your average hotel and quite different from what most of us would expect from a hotel. My wife and I stayed at this hotel for five nights in May and loved it. We also got two different coupes to join us there. When we return to Amsterdam we will stay at this hotel again. Why won't I give it a 5-star? It would be misleading to present or perceive this hotel as a 5-star hotel. The staff is 5-star, from reception to the cleaning crew. We left the hotel one morning when someone was cleaning the entrance way. I excused myself and the gentleman stopped and very politely waved me through and asked me where I was going. "The Museum District." "Walking?" "Yes." At that he put his tools away and walked with us a bit to make sure we were going in the right direction. It was the same with the lady who cleaned our room. I was having a cup of tea in the social room on our floor and she engaged me in a conversaton and gave me suggestions where to go in Holland for our next trip. While waiting for our friends to show up we walked around the hotel and got into the kitchen more or less by accident. Would you believe the chef gave us a small snack on the house? The restaurant at this hotel was packed with locals for dinners. The food was good and reasonably priced. Another advantage of this hotel is that the hotel is surrounded by open space with a small community park in front of the hotel and we met and talked with some locals there. The drawback of this hotel, one of our freinds complained about it, was the rooms were small and furnished minimally but it was clean and everything worked. Ah, the price was right. Oh, one more thing, we walked everywhere from our hotel. With the exception of the Maritime Museum which is a few minutes away, all other attratons are at least 25 minutes away if you walk.