Our first day in Amsterdam
November 30, 2007
In Ámsterdam I met three more friends from Barcelona! It was going to be a good weekend!. As soon as we got to the airport we got a taxi and we drove to our hotel.
As soon as we got to the hotel, we took a shower and we got ready to visit the city. We went straight to the Central Station and from there we went to visit Dam Square.
For lunch we checked our Lonely Planet, but two of the places listed in the guide were closed, so we ended up going to a place we found walking around the city. Actually we were quite lucky, as it was a place serving dutch food. There were other people there, and none were tourists.
From 4:30pm to 10:30pm all information is classified!... hahah … if you want to find out what happened, just drop me an email ;)
At 10:30 we were back in the hotel having some food we bought in a supermarket…
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In the website said it was 3kms away from the center of town, but I guess we were fooled! It is the first time I do not double check using Google Earth… my mystake!
I would have preferred to stay in a hotel located in the center of town, but as we did not book it with enough time we could not find anything affordable. In order to get to Central Station you need to get Bus 21 for about 20 minutes. The hotel overall is ok for the money you pay. Remember to tell them to lower the heating system. By default it is set to 27 degrees and we almost got fried the first night. The only way to change it is to go to reception and program it from there.
The shower is good, and the room is quite clean overall. Breakfast was not too good, but you cannot expect anything better on a 3 star hotel paying 80 euros per night. It is not a new hotel, but it has been well renovated. There is also a small market around the corner, but there is nothing else. At the reception you can buy tranportation passes, which I strongly recommend. For 10 euros we had a 48hour transportation pass and it works quite well.
I would have preferred to stay in a hotel located in the center of town, but as we did not book it with enough time we could not find anything affordable. In order to get to Central Station you need to get Bus 21 for about 20 minutes. The hotel overall is ok for the money you pay. Remember to tell them to lower the heating system. By default it is set to 27 degrees and we almost got fried the first night. The only way to change it is to go to reception and program it from there.
The shower is good, and the room is quite clean overall. Breakfast was not too good, but you cannot expect anything better on a 3 star hotel paying 80 euros per night. It is not a new hotel, but it has been well renovated. There is also a small market around the corner, but there is nothing else. At the reception you can buy tranportation passes, which I strongly recommend. For 10 euros we had a 48hour transportation pass and it works quite well.
For lunch we checked our Lonely Planet, but two of the places listed in the guide were closed, so we ended up going to a place we found walking around the city. Actually we were quite lucky, as it was a place serving dutch food. There were other people there, and none were tourists. The name of the restaurant was Oud Holland and it speciality was a big platter with tradicional Dutch food. Do not ask red wine, it is just too expensive and really bad. So we ended up having nice Dutch beers! The place was just beautiful, a place I will not forget... the waiter even spoke Spanish!
Very modern and fashionable bar/restaurant
It is a very attractive place... very modern and you can tell it is a gay place. It was very well decorated and the music was superb. They had tons of different coacktails, so we had a nice "mojito"! It is located in the gay area, and next to it there were tons of beautiful restaurants!
They also served dinner, actually next to us there were two women having some white wine and oysters! Don´t remember if it was expensive, but it is a must visit place. Also, you will find some coffee shops in the area, but very different to the places we had visit in the Red Light District.
They also served dinner, actually next to us there were two women having some white wine and oysters! Don´t remember if it was expensive, but it is a must visit place. Also, you will find some coffee shops in the area, but very different to the places we had visit in the Red Light District.
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