Cafe Abina - Amstelveen

The pub below is a great place to have a pint with friend. the menu is much above the average for a beer place

A very local, very pleasant place to have a beer and to relax after visiting the amsterdam forest. has a long history and serves very Dutch cuisine, but they have added a vegetarian burger to the menu.

The short review is its good value for money. I stayed from midnight until 10am -mostly asleep- and in that time for €50 I checked in, showered, slept, showered, got dressed, and left, with a small comfortable room near a very nice park and easy bus access to the city centre. First thing you need to be aware of: sometimes there's a club night downstairs. Just know in advance you might be listening to ABBA until 2am. The staff are friendly and accommodating. I arrived at midnight, the bouncer asked if I was there for a room, took me to the side entrance, quickly found a member of staff, he checked me in, showed me to my room. The room is basic but clean, seems well-maintained, and had a fan which was welcome with the heat outside [apologies for the out-of-focus picture! The shower down the hall had a line of towels at one end packed like sandbags presumably to stop water escaping the room which... I've never seen before. But I also stayed one night on Friday night, so its possible another guest threw them on the floor for a laugh. I need to pay tribute to the location. Its opposite a Lidl so you can grab quick cheap breakfast food, there's bakeries around too. The area is very spacious, and 5 minutes walk away is the wonderful park Het Amsterdamse Bos. I only saw a small section of the park, but it was breath-taking. There's also a couple of regular buses that go to the city centre, and it was easy for me to get there from the airport even at midnight.

I spent one night here last week, and I'm absolutely overjoyed that it was only one night. I don't expect much from a hotel, but this one had several shortcomings that I would consider to be an essential requirement for a hotel room. So here they are in roughly decreasing importance: Pillowcases would have been absolutely crucial. The pillow itself was definitely too stained to use it in itself. I had to pull a T-shirt over it to use it. My friends didn't have pillow covers either. The key card rarely worked on the first attempt, usually it took several tries for the door to open. I only had soap, I would have expected a separate shower gel or shampoo at least. (My friend didn't get soap, only shampoo. My other friend didn't get toilet paper. The drawer/cupboard/shelf wasn't assembled. The coat hanger hooks weren't attached to the wall. There was a leakage between the shower head and the pipe, reducing the water pressure. There were only 2 electric outlets, far from the bed and the table, an extension cord was running across the center of the room. There was no bin lining in the bathroom bin. The bedside tables weren't next to the beds. Rusty patches on the bathroom floor. It was otherwise quite clean, as it wasn't dusty, and at least I had two toilet brushes.

Horrible hotel, stay away. When we arrived, we got a smelly room without a fan nor ac( there was a heatwave)After we complained we got a room which was slightly better but when we returned from our visit to the Capital we found that they had moved our stuff to another room which was equally rubbish and had dirty pillows with no covers. Everything about this hotel is cheap and dirty.