RHO Hotel

Rho Hotel is very outdated and I had a terrible experience with my room. I was given a room in the 4^th floor and the air quality in the room was extremely poor. It was almost impossible to stay in the room due to the bad air, which might me caused by something more serious than a poorly working AC. Thus, not to risk my health, I needed to find another hotel. Also the Wi-​Fi does not work well (connectivity issues and very slow connection). On top of that, the customer service was really poor and none of my concerns were addressed properly.

The only good thing about my stay in this hotel was the location. It’s in the Old Town and very close from the main tourist attractions. The rest wasn’t good.
THERE WAS NO HEATING IN THE BATHROOM so it was always extremely cold in there, I stayed in a room with a friend and we took showers with the door opened so it wasn’t so cold in there, and we closed the door to sleep so the cold wouldn’t get in the bedroom.
Even though we closed the bathroom door to sleep the bedroom could be warmer.
There only one spot to plug in electrical razor in the bathroom and other stuff don’t work when you plug in. We had to use our hair dryer in the bedroom because we couldn’t plug it in the bathroom!
There’s no roof lights, just a few lamps and it wasn’t enough, the room was kind of dark.
Besides that the bedroom had a very weird smell! We tried to open the window to get some air in the bedroom but the window didn’t open!!!
Wi-​fi is terrible!!!
One of the front desk girl was kind of rude, the rest of the staff was really nice.

Nun ja, das alte Amsterdam Problem — speziell zur IBC Messe, die ich jährlich besuche: Hotels, die sonst ein einigermaßen verträgliches Preisniveau haben — kosten auf einmal Mondpreise. So auch hier. 175 € für eine Kemenate mit Pappwänden und Zimmertür die ebenfalls jedes Geräusch vom Gang durchließ geht eigentlich gar nicht. Auch wenn es sauber war, es ist noch nicht einmal genug Schrankraum vorhanden um zwei Anzüge und ein wenig anderes Zeug unter zu bringen. Ja, es war sehr sauber — und man ist wirklich zentral; was einen aber auch zur Verzweiflung bringen kann wenn man ein Zimmer direkt zum Platz vorm Königspalast hat.
Frühstück: ja, gibt es. Qualitativ fragwürdig, aber man wird satt. Noch nicht mal Erdnussbutter — und das in Holland…
WLAN vorhanden und kostenlos aber von fragwürdiger Zuverlässigkeit.

Easy to walk to fr the train station & € 10 /​person to travel by train to central station. Right by the National monument this lovely hotel welcomed us to one of the most beautiful cities in Europe where every turn & every block has a photo opp. The hotel is old & lovely in a perfect location w lots of restaurants near by & lots of tourist things to do. Rooms were clean but a little on the dark side for lighting. Floors were uneven as there was a 8″ drop to the door & abrupt border to the bathroom that can stub your toe in the dark. Room was inside & very quiet. Breakfast was buffet w all the goodies. Shaved ham as bacon, sausages & eggs scrambled & hardboiled pastries bread cereal cheeses. Tomatoes & cucumbers which I must stress is important b/​c further into our European trip we discovered that fresh vegetables are scarce. Rho hotel was a very lovely welcoming hotel that helped us through jet lag & welcomed us to a very different pace of life as compared to Canada.

This is not a bad hotel. However, given the relatively high price we paid I was expecting more.
The pros:
Friendly staff.
Nice lobby.
Really awesome breakfast included in the price of the room.
Central location yet relatively quiet and safe (we had a room facing toward the courtyard).
Mostly clean room, lobby very clean.
The cons:
Small dark room, only one tiny window
Ugly interior of the room, reminding me of a youth hostel.
Stingy with the toiletries, rather sample than a travel size (10ml)
Mattress hopelessly soft.
Also, I would not recommend this hotel if you come by car:
No place to legally stop and unload your luggage.
Parking fee pretty high (35 Euro from check-​in to 11am check-​out) but at least the parking was easy.
Overall, not bad but not my first choice next time I travel to Amsterdam.

We loved this hotel for its ease to get to from the airport (take the train and walk a few blocks), breakfast (lots of choices and delicious), and location ((Dam. It’s walking distance to everywhere that you would want to see in Amsterdam. We never used public transportation or taxis. The room was clean and nice, and we felt safe. Highly recommend. There are lots of good restaurants a quick walk away. Go out of the hotel, turn right, and turn right again, and you’ll be on a street with many good options.

Stayed for 5 days and had a lovely time. The hotel was an old theatre and the Art Deco lobby is beautiful. We had a triple room (3 single beds) but it ended up being a suite. Huge rooms, with a small porch and kitchenette. The breakfast is decent, strong coffee, buffet eggs, strange bacon and good pancakes. 7 – 10.30am The Dam Straat gets a little seedy at night with groups of people hanging out on the street, seems to be mainly tourists. They recommended some good restaurants and were helpful and attentive.

Solid tourist hotel with tons of rooms that seem to go on forever in corridors that snake through the building. The walls were very thin in what seemed to be the new section of the hotel, but there were no loud people around. The lobby is one of the coolest I have seen. It looked like it was once an old department store with a great glass ceiling. The breakfast in the morning was quite good and I was very happy with it. I think it is included in the room fees or is fairly cheap if not (my room was paid for). The wifi is free and not limited. Central location to the busy tourist sections of the city. You are really in the center of tourist Amsterdam here and a short stroll to Dam Square and the Red Light District. ATMs were located right outside which was nice.
The room was small. The bed was comfy. The bathroom was small but adequate.

We chose the Rho Hotel based on their location in the center of town, a few steps from the DAM square, and within walking distance to all of the Museums, canals and shopping areas. Unfortunately, they forgot that we were arriving late and gave our room away and gave us a room next to the street which was extremely noisy. We were very upset therefore; while we were out they moved all of our belongings to the room that we had original reserved in the hotel courtyard with no noise.
The hotel should have make us aware of the «I amsterdam Card» when we asked about the museums, etc. There is a fee for the card but when you add up the cost of the Canal tour by boat, museums, and discounted offers to restaurants we would have saved a lot of money.