Appartement Amsterdam - Péniche Amsterdam - Location Appartement

This a lovely converted cargo boat, not your typical canal house boat, much bigger. It is very clean and comfortable with two nice big double bedrooms with clean bathrooms, both with baths and over bath showers, which give a good flow of water and are nice and hot. The garden room is a beautiful social area, although the dinning room chairs could do with a re-upholstery as the seats sag so the chairs can cut in a little behind the knees but we did sit up on them until the wee hours and there are cushions! The beds are old with what feels like horsehair mattresses but they mold around you giving a very comfortable nights sleep. Plenty of extra bedding and the heating system was quick and easy to use and warmed up the boat a treat. The sitting room chairs are lovely and the kitchen facilities were more then we ever needed. A big plus for a rented house boat was the dish washer and plenty of cups, glasses and plates. The boat is situated further out from town but the trams and buses are every 10 mins so no problems and got us using the transport system. Lovely area with shops and cafes near, the bar next to the tram stop is great with good music and lovely bar staff, was open until 3am on the Sat night. Access is not too difficult although the stairs down to the front door are steep there is a railing and they are proper stairs not steps. Small windows and boats moored from front so boats to the sides, so different views from your normal side moored canal boat. Our host Eugène, lives in own apartment on board, he is very approachable and helpful without being intrusive. Would highly recommend but not to 18 year old boozers as area is residential.