Hotel France - Amsterdam

Nice staff on dayshift but a very unpleasant and rude guy on nightshift...they should really be looking for someone else that knows how to treat the hotel guests with some respect..

The hotel is clean and is in good location (close to the train station). As somebody has already mentioned, it's really hard to locate though unless you have a printed map in front of you. I've asked a stopped taxi driver and even he not been able to tell me where the hotel is based on a street name. Overall experience is very positive, will likely stay there again.

Great hotel ,great location,staff very helpfull

Hotel location excellent for acccessing transport and departing cruises; a lot of street noise especially with window open to reduce room temperature. Service OK - do not recommend for longer than 2-3 nights.

Warm rooms (to hot) with no windows.

Right in the centre of the city just a short walk from central station this was ideal and very reasonable priced for a budget trip. Nice clean and spacious room and decent breakfast. We will come back.

Verry good hotel ,good breakfast,nice place.Hotel staff very goood.

Hôtel très cher par rapport au service fourni(255€ pour 2 nuits, prix qui correspond à un hôtel de très bonne qualité alors que ce n'est pas du tout le cas de l'Hôtel France). La housse de couette était beaucoup plus petite que le lit, le lit pas fait, le ménage c'était vraiment limite limite, la propreté moyenne. Accueil très sympa et chambre très calme avec double vitrage de bonne qualité, mais rapport qualité-prix plutôt mauvais du point de vue du ménage, de la propreté et de l'espace.

UNE HORREUR ABSOLUE A EVITER ABSOLUMENT!!!! Tres sale, chambre sans fenetre ,tres bruyante, petit dej dans le pub d'a coté....

Niente di che. Albergo senza pretese. Buona la posizione e colazione discreta. Un piccolo neo: ho prenotato due camere, ma chissà perchè gliene risultava solo una, nonostante fosse chiaro ed evidente dalla prenotazione(e dal prezzo doppio!!!!) Ci hanno provato??? Non so... alla fine, dopo un pò di attesa hanno risolto, ma la sistemazione non era come ce l'aspettavamo. Ci siamo dovuti adattare.

Nettes Hotel, einige Zimme mit nicht zu öffnenden Fenstern (in einen Lichtschacht), aber alle Zimme mit Klimaanlage. Uns wurde auf Nachfrage problemlos in der 2 Nacht ein Zimme mit Blick auf die Gracht gegeben. Nett: Frühstück im anliegenden Pub

We arent`t recommending this hotel. When you take a room for three people you receive room without windows. Is it good for rats. When you want a small windows you have to pay for about 40eur/night more. When We will go again in Amsterdam We reserved accommodation in another hotel. This accomodation is`t good ratio between price and quaility. accommodation.

Good hotel but noisy area

Nice little hotel. Beautifully located, a short walk from Central Station and from main streets.You have breakfast next door in an Irish Pub, and can sit outside with the Canal,watching the boats passing by. Here you can have one of Amsterdams best Irish Coffee. Live music during the week-ends.

Uncomfortable beds, Bad service

For us, the unique negative detail was that there were no windows in the room, but we did not spend long time on it. The decoration is modern and functional, and the hotel gives sensation of new and clean .

Rooms without windows. I shoul be partially reimbursed. Paolo Piergentili

We arrived at the Hotel France and was pleasantly surprised at the central position and the warm welcome from the reception guy. However, it went downhill from there on! Our room was no 802 and was literally in reception, there were no windows and the aircon did not work properly, it was like being in a box. We asked to be moved but the hotel was full! Then at 12am the noise started of people coming in and out of the hotel. Then at 4am the guy on reception put his tv on as loud as possible and we had to ask him to turn it down!!! The breakfast was served in the pub next door which was very dark and gloomy for breakfast. Food was okay though. The room was clean and the first reception guy was helpful. Position was great, central to everything. Probably best to specify room with window and preferably not in reception!

When visiting the hotel, we were waiting for something else than the cellar room with bathroom which didn't even have a door!! Anyone who visits the hotel, should insist a room upstairs, we were disappointed. Otherwise, the location is great

Very accessible by foot from Central Station. Room suprisingly big and clean compared to the hall entry and the corridors. Very good buffet breakfast is included in the price. Would return.

The hotel didn't offer a 3star-quality: Filthy rooms, questionable spreadsheets, unfriendly and uncosy breakfast at next-door-pub, very questionable quality of breakfast buffet. Very pricy hotel.

The hotel is very near to the central station, so for this location it was pretty cheap. The room was commodous. It just was a little strange for me that there were no windows. But for one or two nights it ist perfekt for a couple or a single ith preferation of central location.

I dont see how they justify the cost of the rooms, the first room we had was small with no windows. the second room we changed to was even smaller but at least had an opening window

Nice welcome, you pay when you are registered on place, everything is ok when you come whith your booking sheet printed. No noise, clean enough, good looking and certainly the best various breakfast nextdoor we've ever had ! (at the Irish pub Molly Malone). I would recommend the "Tibet restaurant" : not far from the hotel (Langeniezel straat) excellent food, good quality & price.

As per my email to Venere few days ago, when we checked in, the room had not been cleaned (dirty cups on the table, beds unmade) + the room was in the basement with NO window. When asking to get another room, we got the one next door, exactly the same, no window but clean... we were told that we couldn't get a room with a window due to the price we paid (85 euros a night) - that was never mentioned on the website, that at that price, you wouldn't get a window. No upgrade possible either as Easter and no other room available... really disappointing. Other than that, location is absolutely great...

Hemos estado en Amsterdam esta semana santa. El Hotel está en una situacion privilegiada, en el centro, enfrente de Central Station, o sea que genial. El desayuno es tipo buffet y completo y nuestra habitacion recien reformada y muy amplia, todo y que a nuestros acompañantes les toco una habitacion mas pequeña y no estaba reformada. Pedir con vistas al canal, es muy bonito!!!

The hotel (France hotel in Amsterdam)cancelled the reservation (they said : false card number), I was not informed of that. They gave us a little room on first floor, behod the builing, without windows. I paid the same price (85 €), but it became expansive too for that room in a *** hotel.

Never, ever book this hotel. we made the mistake of booking this place only to be told, after a long journey, that they had decided to give our rooms away. we arrived on time and were greeted with a "its happened, you will just have to deal with it comment from the obnoxious receptionist". We were eventually transfered to a hotel miles from the centre and advised by the taxi driver who took us to the new hotel that Hotel france do this constantly. So if you want a nice trouble free time in amsterdam avoid the Hotel France.

Okay hotel. Clerk at desk was MIA for 45 minutes during checkout time and charged €25 more than the agreed price with the manager after we added another person, and all they did was add a rollaway to a twin room. Location is the best thing about this hotel. Breakfast at the Irish pub next door was interesting--my friends and I have never seen tuna salad as a breakfast item before.

Excellent location (center). Good Shower. Model of Toilets are not nice.

Excellent location and surprisingly quiet environment.However only go if you dont want any sleep at all!The room was cold,the radiator only half heated up and made noise throughout the night.The shower was cold.Room only superficially clean. Doors were slamming and you could hear clearly loud talk and laughing all night. Breakfast cold(hot option!)

Good value and the breakfast supplied by Molly Malones was much better than we expected.

The stay was not good!! we stayed 2 nights,and when we came back for the second night, the clean team have emptied all ours straff out the room.( they thought it was a check out!!)all ours staffs were put in trash platstic bag in the reception!!! We will come back in Amsterdam but never in this hotel!!!!! It was the badest hotel I have seen in my life(I have made a lot of travels, cause I am a travel agent!!!)

Quiet clean hotel very convenient for Central Station

Great location for a hotel, had a wounderful time, I'm going back

Location of the hotel is good. The booked room was underground and with no windows. I could upgrade to an upper floor (with additional payment) but still without window.

The location is great. 5 mins walk to the Central Terminal and red light districts is nearby. There is also a good supermarket near the Dam.

Great destination, close to the train station and all means of public transport (and to red light district!). Window looked to the waterpipes - very irritating noise. Dark room, dark furniture, very small bedside lamps. Breakfast in the next pub, also dark place but food was ok. Bathroom could be cleaner. You have to pay the bill in advance. I wouldn't stay there again, I would look for a better quality in this price category.

Room on the ground floor had the tiniest windows so no real natural light. Bathroom was fine. Hotel location was excellent.

Perfect location. A good stay. Happy.

We had a single room and a double room. The double room was correct, the single one wasn't very good.

A very pleasant little hotel in a lively part of town. Staff were pleasant. Upkeep was so-so (check your room on arrival). Good value for Amsterdam, though it would be a ripoff in Spain.

7 min from the Central station. Major museum (walking) -45min. Dam - <10min. Very friendly people, very helpful. Clean room and bath. Quiet. Wireless works well in room at any time. Room is OK for me but small for a big person. Bathroom size is typical for any small hotel in Europe. Regulated heater. Lift is working. good breakfast. Good place. I'd recommend it to everyone.

Hotel France was a great find for us, when we go back we will definately be returning to the Hotel. Location was perfect and the surrounding area although being very central was very quiet. Only problem that we encountered was that the bedside lamps, inside, were very dusty which gave out a strange smell. All round though it made for a great 4 days!!!

Very nice small hotel with easy access to excursion centers. Very quiet surroundings. The adjoining Irish Pub restaurant was also greatly appreciated.

Very nice small hotel with easy access to excursion centers. Very quiet surroundings. The adjoining Irish Pub restaurant was also greatly appreciated.

My single room was very small and very plain -- not even a picture on the wall, and no room for a chair to sit in for reading. However, the location was very convenient, the room was clean and well kept, breakfast was good standard European, and the price was better than I was able to find elsewhere in Amsterdam for the dates of my travel. All together, it worked out fine, although I must admit that I was startled when I first saw how small and plain the room was. From photos, it appears that the double rooms are better size and better furnished.

Nice stay in Amsterdam, and luckily we did not spend much time at the hotel. They offered an ok place to sleep, but the price did not in any way match the facilities they offered.

I was lucky because I had a room with a great view, but most of my friends got a room without windows... It´s a little bit noisy, mayb because of its excellent location. Only one problem: someone got inside the room (locked room, by the way)of one of my colleagues and stole any valuable thing he/she found (portable DVD, digital camera, clothes, shoes, etc). Some staff were not as helpful as one could expect, specially the receptionist at the moment of the theft. The rest of the staff were excellent. Best: the location.

The position of the hotel is perfect, near the station and the center, optimal and abundant the breakfast in the irish pub, but the room was small and without window. Too many 150 euros for room for three persons to night

Surrunds and station proximity are the only positive points

Rooms were small. Clean. Stayed one night. I would stay there again.

I had my purse with all cash & credit cards stolen during breakfast at the Irish pub next door -- which was a great blow. Hotel France staff, however, was extremely helpful and supporting to sort out all kinds of subsequent problems.

I was so dissapionted with my room :( it was cramped, dirty carpets, single size blanket on double bed. There where no tea and coffee facillities at all and you said there was. Every morning there were workmen drilling outside my room! The bathroom smelled and the staff were always knocking on the door and disturbing us for various reasons. I went home 2 day early as it upset me to stay in that hotel so much.Please note i asked for a view of the canal and all i got was a noisy vent and a big building outside my room! I was REALLY UPSET! It was also our anniversary :( Regards Katy

Room without usable windows. No Italian channels on TV.

Excellent for a short break

It is projected as three star hotel. When I reached the hotel I found already few customers fighting with the hotel receptionist complaining about the rooms. The rooms are very small with no facilities. I mean there is not even glass of water in the room. Overall I will not go back to this hotel.

The France hotel has a perfect situation, very quiet, a good breakfast, but the room was too dirty. During our stay the room was never clean, just the towels were changed. I am really was disappointment in the cleanness of the room taking into account that it was 3 stars hotel.

There was no window in our room this was the only fault

Se guardate le tre stelle rimarrete certamente delusi: soffitti un po' bassi, spazi comuni inesistenti, qualche scrosto alle pareti ecc. Ma le camere (coi servzi) mi sono sembrate sufficentemente pulite e l'Hotel che si affaccia su un piccolo canale tranquillo e silenzioso è in zona centralissima a due passi dalla stazione e dai principali capolinea. la prima colazione inclusa nel prezzo è servita nel pub (non rumoroso) adiacente. E'il tipico "English Breakfast": ottimo e abbondante ma deluderà gli appassionati del cornetto caldo.Il rapporto qualità-prezzo mi è parso ottimo per il centro di Amsterdam

L'hotel è a 2 passi dalla stazione centrale e estremamente vicino alla "vita" della città. Molto carina la colazione nell'adiacente pub irlandese. Alla reception sono stati decisamente cordiali ed è stato anche comodo lasciare i bagagli (chiusi a chiave) sia all'arrivo (prima della consegna della camera) che alla partenza (dopo aver riconsegnato le chiavi). Se l'obiettivo è quello di visitare la città e dormire serenamente è sicuramente il posto ideale spendendo il giusto. Non è un posto chic ma comunque più che in linea con le aspettative. Da considerare.

Extremely friendly staff. Very informative and helpful

We were put in a room with no window. I could smell bad athletes foot fungus in the hallway carpets. Was wondering if the room was even up to code since we were directly under the stairwell. We heard drunks coming in at all hours of the night. Hardly slept at all and wondered if I'd contracted a respiratory illness from such poor ventilation. Very poor standards for the price.

You get what you pay for. Employees are very nice, but housekeeping is terrible. I would recommend staying elsewhere.

Good value for money.good hotel and surroundings.very enjoyable stay

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Un ottimo hotel se si viaggia con amici senza troppe pretese,letti comodissimi,stanze non molto ampie,ma accoglienti e pulite,bagno in buone condizioni e il personale veramente professionale e pronto ad ogni richiesta. La colazione ok e pure la ragazza della reception! eh eh eh! Penso che sia un'ottima permaneza sia per la zona in pieno centro e a due passi dalla stazione sia per il prezzo davvero conveniente.

The hotel had a great front office team. They were welcoming and helpful. The Bed and Bathroom were really clean. I had a great stay and will return to stay in the hotel whenever I travel to Amsterdam. Thanks

Overall I found this hotel to be handy to transport resturants and sightseeing. The rooms could be cleaner however for the price you can't expect 5star accomadation. I would stay there again.

The hotel looks good on the internet but the rooms are shabby. Our room had holes in the carpet and it looked as though it hadnt been hoovered in quite a while. The bathroom was adequate and clean but i would advise to STAY AWAY from this hotel as it is NOT good value for money.

There is no internet facility contrary to what is mentioned on the site. House-keeping is not upto the mark. Breakfast is pathetic with no service at all. The location is very good, though and the staff polite.

Located in the city center, is an excellent place to discover Amsterdam. Prices are low, and our room was spacious with nice views to the canal. Good stay.

During 4 days'stay 2 days no room service, no cleaning, dirty pillow sheets, no milk, butter available at breakfast, staff unfriendly and incompetent, cold single room - no heating

Good price hotel right in the center good clean rooms

It's a pretty hotel if you want to stay in the center of amsterdam with out paing to much!it's ok if you only sleep and have breakfast there but if want to spend sometime in your room, go to another hotel!

Really couldn't fault the place given the price and location.