NH Amsterdam Noord

Ok, here we go… this particular hotel happens to be my home away from home when I’m here in Amsterdam. It’s not the poshest hotel, but it’s honestly quite nice. The decent size lobby decorated with green edible apples for consumption if needed be has always been a signature touch to this hotel.
Just like any other hotels, it has doors and a reception desk with people to check you in. Elevators to take you to the floor where your room is. Get this, the hallways even have signs to guide you to where your particular room might be. In the rooms, you will find a bed, windows with curtains, a desk, some chairs. There’s a bathroom as well. Some have a separate toilet, some have the toilet in the bathroom. Deep soaker tub, modern showers and sinks. It’s amazing how complete this hotel is!!! I just wonder how they do it.
What I love the most is the fridge, i can go grocery shopping for some items that need refrigerating and keep it in there until I need to pack them to go back to the states. The staff is very nice, they pretty much are as accommodating and willing to go above and beyond just short of a foot massage.
Did I mention they have an awesome fitness center? A complete set of free weights is like heaven compared to most of the American hotels I’ve visited. Plus there’s a good variety of cardio equipments. The WiFi signal reaches all the way down there as well, so you can get your netflix on while getting your cardio on.
I could talk good things all day about this hotel. But I gotta sign off at a good spot. Thank you so much for taking time to read my review.
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It’s a cheap hotel. There is a strong smell of bacon in the lobby. It’s up to u to decide of that’s good or bad. I forgot my shaving kit and they had nothing to offer. And nothing to buy. The Classic Dutch response. «It’s not possible» but they do have these lovely sponges for the bathroom I think they have little shards of glass sprinkled on them. It will give u a reviving clean feeling. Don’t use on sensitive areas. Aside from the amenities the most important thing about a hotel is it’s conducive to sleep. And clean. This place is quiet and the bed is so so. As for clean. The sheets were fresh and the bathroom spotless but there was a beer bottle and a pair of shoes on the balcony. It honestly looked like it had been there for months.

Location is off the beaten path, in a suburb north of central Amsterdam, but that means it’s quiet. There’s a shuttle bus that drops you off at the NH across from Centraal Station. Or, it’s a fifteen minute walk to the (three minute, free) ferry to Centraal Station. By bike (EUR 15 rental) it’s super quick and this is a fun way to get around.
Hotel building is new-​ish and modern, which is good. Not dowdy and musty like some of the other NH hotels in town.
The breakfast buffet (EUR 15) is okay. You have to special order soft-​boiled eggs (no, the bucket of eggs next to the egg cups is all hard-​boiled). The cold cuts are okay, not great. There’s not enough salad out. There’s no really good (fresh) bread. Yogurt and muesli are good. The dining location is nice.
Internet access is free, but is just a shill for the EUR 9.90 (per day) «Premium» service which is what you actually expected. Note that they sneakily call it «Free WiFi» not «Free High Speed Internet». That’s because it’s 0.25 mbps (yes, 256 kilobits — we’re talking dialup modem speeds here). Forget about Youtube. Google Maps and Facebook are painful. VPNs are blocked (hello, business traveler). Not bad enough? You have to re-​login (a long, hard-​to-​type-​on-​phone ID) every 24 hours, and each ID only works for one device. (While at the lobby, grab a big stack of wifi password slips, you’re gonna need them.) Their strategy seems to be: make it as painful as possible to use the «free wifi» so people buy the premium service. I hate being nickel and dimed, so in protest I stopped buying breakfast, too.
You can go under the road to get to the marketplace, where there are a couple of restaurants serving breakfast, and there are no doubt more we didn’t see, in this neighborhood.
Our room smelled horribly of allergy-​inducing vanilla-​ish air freshener and we were told they were fully booked and we could not get a different room, so we left the window open all night.
Delta airline crews stay here.
There’s a wacky policy of locking the front door late at night and not telling you how to get in. Turns out there’s an unlit and unmarked intercom you’re supposed to hit the doorbell on. Of course, it’s on the side away from where the shuttle drops you and the cars park, and there’s no sign or anything. I tried explaining this to the receptionist but all she kept saying was how it was for our own security.