Recent reviews Amsterdam
[mouette, 09/11/2005] Amsterdam is a difficult place to find accommodation as it doesnt really have enough beds for all the people who want to visit, so if you can it pays to book early.
I found the Golden Tulip through an Internet booking site. I stayed from Wednesday till Saturday and the room cost €150 on the Friday night and €110 on the others. Breakfast cost an additional €14 and is a mix of cooked and continental. Id say it was better to ignore the breakfast and get a better quality, cheaper bite to eat near by.
The hotel, which is 4 starred (not that I can tell you what that means as often in the UK
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[fizzytom, 09/08/2005] The Quentin England Hotel was reasonably priced at 79.20 Euros for two people for one night, exclusive of breakfast. Breakfast was available at a cost of 7 Euros and could be booked online or when at the hotel. We did not eat breakfast at the hotel because we had so little time that we wanted to up out and about early to do more sightseeing, we stopped during the sightseeing for breakfast
The hotel was conveniently located on a quiet residential street just off the Leidsplein and near to the Musuemplein so handy for some of the top attractions the city has to offer. There was minimal traffi
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[fizzytom, 08/08/2005] Anne Frank was born in Germany in 1929. In 1933, Otto Frank and his wife, Edith, decided to leave Germany with Anne and their older daughter, Margot, to make a new life in Amsterdam because, being Jewish, they feared that their lives would not be safe in Nazi Germany.
They lived happily in Amsterdam until the Germans invaded and occupied the Netherlands in 1940. At first Jews were instructed to wear yellow star-shaped badges to identify them as Jews; then they were forbidden from running businesses and holding certain types of jobs and finally they were rounded up and sent away to concentra
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[fizzytom, 08/08/2005] With only two days in Amsterdam I was keen to cram in as much as possible. As it rained pretty much the whole time we were there, indoor activites were top of the list and as the Rijksmuseum was closed for essential works, next on my list was the Van Gogh Museum. This museum houses the biggest collection of the artist's work held in one place as well as displaying works by other artists of the period - this is interesting as it gives you an opportunity to put Van Gogh's work into context. However, only a small numbr of the paintings were painted in the Netherlands - most are from his time in F
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