Charming hotel in a series of combined older homes on a canal just off the Leiden Breestraat. The…read morehotel has a few nice amenities including a function room and bar/restaurant area. The staff was super friendly. Rooms were quite roomy with a great bed, but not oozing in style (except maybe for the Rembrandt room). Breakfast was typically Dutch, which was kind of fun: sliced bread, cheese/meats, hagelslag chocolate sprinkles, boiled egg, ontbijtkoek (breakfast cake).
One major disappointment was the considerable street noise throughout the evening and into the early hours of the night (on a Tuesday). Students emerged -drunk and rambunctious- from the student society directly behind the hotel and then for a while hung out on the bridge in front of the hotel before parting ways. This and the occasional bicycle ramble and passing car became part of our room's audioscape that kept me awake. It felt like there was a near continuous stream of such talking and shouting students from about 11pm to 4am, when I finally fell asleep for what remained of the night (admittedly, in our group of 4 we only had 1.5 person complain about this issue, with me accounting for two-thirds of that).
So, unless the hotel invests in some soundproof glass, I recommend not paying extra for a deluxe room with canal view. Other than that, the hotel is very nice.
