Aston City Hotel

The location of the hotel very very central to public transports, boat, trams, buses, under ground. It was small/compact, but them most we have stayed in, in Amsterdam are. The bathrooms are wet rooms with excellent warm powerful showers. Next street to the Heineken experience. local supermarket, shops and restaurants, lovely bar on corner that serves nice food/drink, we went there every morning for breakfast, before heading to the underground to city centre or central station. The big question...would i use this hotel again?? YES most probably, if i didn't find a better bargain.

This hotel does not have a reception, which is advised at booking, however the reception is within the hotel just up the street, which is fine, however the note on the hotel door just says reception at no.76, no arrows and No.76 is actually the Blossom Hotel, why it does not say this i have no idea. the hotels has no lifts and the stairs are a hard climb to our floor 3rd, but there were two more higher. The hotel has a no smoking policy, however for most of the day and night there is wakie backie smells within the rooms and stairways. There is 6 rooms per floor, 2 facing the street, 2 with windows onto the stairwell and 2 to the back, which i don't think have windows or windows that open according to the hotel information. The rooms are very warm, even with the heating off and window ventilation is low, in winter we had a fan on most of the night. The bathroom doors are sliding doors and ours didn't close, so we advised reception, who sent a man, on our return the door did slide but not easy, so we advised reception again, and advised them that, although a man could force the door, my one armed wife could not, so he sent a man again. they could not fix and would not exchange rooms, so we forced the door into a squeeze through gap and maintained as such.