Amsterdam Condos - Reviews and Rates

June 14th
Start the AM off with a bike tour of Amsterdam, there's not a great deal to see here but its still quite nice biking around and the guide is pretty funny. Onto the Anne Frank museum, after standing in line for 30mins in the rain we enter and look around. The museum is inside the actual building Anne and the seven others were hidde...

We'd read that Amsterdam is a great entry to Europe because there are few language barriers and lots to see and do, so from the beginning we planned to enter Europe through Amsterdam even though the place we wanted to spend the most time was Belgium. We found a wonderful deal on a direct flight from Toronto to Amsterdam through Air Transat. It w...

The Netherlands declared neutrality during the second world war. In spite of that, German forces invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940. On May 14, 1940, General Schmidt of Germany issued an ultimatum on Colonel Scharroo, the Dutch Commander of Rotterdam. They threatened to bomb rotterdam if they did not surrenter. General Winkelman, the Comman...

The flight took off on 17th Jan 11:30pm. Really trying not to think of the amount of hours we'll be travelling this time. So this trip was 13 hours- our longest. KLM wasn't too bad. The 747 was a little 'short' in passengers seats and I guess they fixed some cargo space behind instead. Gotta watch from a small screen. Caught 'The Queen'- surpris...

First thing on the day's agenda was a cycling tour of Amsterdam. I wasn't too sure of how I would go riding a bike, as it's been quite a while. I will probably be aching for days. My bike was a light green color. We rode in a large group of 30. Cyclists have right of way in Amsterdam which made it a bit easier. There's even a traffic light for b...

Well, it was great arriving at Centraalstation and being met by my friend Xander right on the platform. Normally it takes a good half-an-hour just to get my bearings upon arrival and find the direction of hostels etc from long and careful study of tourist maps. Instead I was whisked away straight down all of the shortcuts to the Flying Pig hoste...

From Koln, we took the 2 1/2 train ride on the InterCityExpress to Amsterdam Centraal station. Our hotel, named Hotel Brian (not a coincidence, once I saw the name I knew we had to stay here!) was located close to the station and overlooked the Singel canal. Check-in to this hotel was a very interesting experience to say the least. Seeing as I h...

PUBLIC HOLIDAY so good for traffic. Phil had hassel with hotel check out as they had no recordes of our payment for one night accomodation. Crossed the boarded into Holland without any checks, old windmills still standing and very pretty country side on the way to Amsterdam. Most people ride bikes in Holland, even the Queen! Everyone warned us o...