After searching and deliberating over which hotel in Amsterdam to crash at, I came across the Qbic. Picked it cause it was pretty cheap and the web pictures had pretty cool looking rooms.
Before you even bother reading the rest of this. Qbic is a hotel to sleep, shower and check ya email at. know this. I'd best describe Qbic as a trendy, no frills, In & Out kina place. There's absolutely nothing to do in the hotel, but it's very Clean and the rooms are very Cool.
So Qbic is in a real quiet, low-key area about a 15 minute tram ride to Leidseplein (city center); It's considered Amsterdam South or in World Trade Center area. If you want to be in the middle of the action/parties/tourist central this is not the place to book. Can't stress enough how quiet and low key it is. This might work for you, it may not. But knowing is half the battle.
What's good is that the tram is located right down the block from the hotel and the train is right there on the opposite side. A real easy and accessible location by day, but like fellow Yelper FJ v. mentioned, you may have to take a cab after 12am. (15 Euros from the City Center)
The different staff persons I came across at the front desk (if you could even really consider it a front desk) were all laid back and helpful. One dude went out his way to help me a find a European adapter that would be compatible for my laptop charger. No luck finding one but the effort was much appreciated. The hotel offers free Wi-Fi, which is really easy to connect to. There's a continental breakfast from 6-11am where fresh pastries, cereal, yogurt and sandwich meats are offered. Descent stuff.
Yeah, the cool looking rooms. So you got this space shippy looking room in all white with no windows and funky glowing neon lights that change color. You can adjust the lights to strobe and all these other crazy settings. The bed & bathroom are two attached cubes. Yeah, two attached cubes. The bed is a queen-size comfy mattress located in an open cube. There's a small flat screen television attached to the one of the bedpost and there are like a gazillion outlets (European) available around the room to plug your gadgets into. The headboard to the bed is the wall that separates the bathroom from the bed area. Sounds kina weird and gross but it works. On the other side of the wall is a small but clean, sleek, modern looking bathroom. No door to the bathroom side of the cube and a see thru shower inside. I was solo so it wasn't an issue, but if you're with a friend it should probably be someone your comfortable with.
I really have no complaints. Qbic is a cool place to rest ya head at if you wana be close to the action but not on top of it. I'd stay there again for sure. read more