Hotel Cafe Restaurant Abina

A good place to stay overnight. Didn't see a problem sharing a bathroom. Good location - next to a grocery store. Bus station nearby. Green neighborhood... They have problems with the heat. If you are a heavy sleeper, the bar downstairs shouldn't bother you. Otherwise, I recommend buying earplugs. The breakfast is neither good nor bad.

Not a bad option for someone who is looking for a cheaper accommodation surrounding the airport and ams. Room is small but quite tidy and the beds are comfortable. Plus have a very good view from the window in the room. But do need to know that bathroom and toilet are shared. Would recommend for short stay!

Great value hotel approximately 8km from Amsterdam centre but easily accessible by bike but no really close trams or busses. Lively cafe /restaurant with excellent food and super efficient, polite and friendly staff- spare ribs are to die for! Friday and Saturday night expect good music till late but not much sleep. Rooms and bathrooms spotless but bring a fan with you as no aircon so rooms get hot during summer.

There was blood on the sheets in my cupboard and the bathroom was not clean at all

We booked a room at Hotel Abina through BringFido, three weeks prior to our reservation dates, exclusively because they were listed as pet-friendly. They are not. They are not even human-friendly. Their listing on BringFido even claimed that there were pet-sitting services available via the hotel. Their listing on *********** even said they offered pet bowls. However, none of this is true. When we checked in for a three-night stay, the staff had our reservation through BringFido in front of them but said nothing about our dogs at that time. Our room was exceedingly small. The pillows had no cases but were instead wrapped in bedspreads. The carpets were stained, the communal shower had bugs, the sink was cracked, the window mantel was loose, and the piles of lint under the bed looked as if no one had cleaned under it in years. The hallway to the bathroom (with a broken lock, broken toilet seat, and perpetually out of paper) that was absurdly meant to be shared by ten guest rooms AND the restaurant/bar downstairs was accessed only by a barely-lit corridor with an uneven floor. Both those first two nights, we were kept awake by men partying loudly in the room next door and out on the rooftop adjacent to our room. But the worst was when we came back to our room and found that the window, which we had left locked, was wide open, exposing our valuables to anyone who wanted to climb the ladder from the alley and step in from the roof. Our two laptops, the means of our livelihood and containing my students’ personal information, had been left unsecured by the hotel staff, who had clearly entered our room to open the window but had not bothered to actually clean or service the room. To add insult to injury, the next morning, a member of the staff rudely confronted my husband in public and angrily shouted three times in a row that dogs were not allowed in the hotel. When I showed the manager our booking through BringFido, she said she had never heard of that company, and insisted that I had booked through *******. A moment later, she insisted that when she received the email from BringFido stating we were traveling with dogs and requesting confirmation of a dog-friendly room, she said she had replied (to the people she just said she’d never heard of!) that they did not allow dogs. And yet, the hotel had somehow accepted the booking and somehow checked us in without the slightest mention to us of any problem. Confronted with the facts, this rude, unprofessional manager had no choice but to confirm that the situation was not our fault, but she never apologized for yelling at my husband in public. This dump of a hotel, with its rude, dishonest manager, and staff that has no regard for the safety of customers' valuables, is not only unwelcoming of dogs, it is unfit for humans. There are so many better options in Amsterdam, it’s no wonder this dank, decrepit hole seemed to be mostly empty and frequented mainly by noisy drunks. Hotel A

We did not anticipate the super narrow stairwell and the climb to the 2nd floor being 3 flights up. This was a learning curve for us on stays in Europe. Do not have an enormous suitcase. The WiFi didn't work. The remotes for the TV didn't work. There was no breakfast at 6:30am. We didn't mind the shared bathroom and shower. We were the first in and had plenty of hot water. We bugged out early and got food at the airport. The area is lovely and we would have liked to walkabout in the parks but we were hungry. This would be great for a young traveler with little luggage. Not so much for the old folks.

To say this is a rat hole would be a tremendous compliment. This place has no business calling itself a hotel. Amsterdam was swamped last night but to pay $88 for myself in a shared bathroom/shower down the hall was beyond belief. Since I have been booking through ********** all of these many years, this too shall cease. If they can’t check out this crap hole places before listing them on their site, I don’t want to experience this again. There was no soap provided and the towels were face towel sized. Needless to say I didn’t even attempt to shower this morning as I wouldn’t be able to adequately dry off even if I found soap. I asked last night for a hair dryer in case I showered and the photo below depicts what they provided. They must have had a great laugh at my expense because there was no socket in the room that would accommodate the plug provided. In short, stay away. I repeat, stay away. I lived in the Netherlands for 4 years and have never been in such a hovel. I’m trying not to use obscenity so this review gets published.