Bed and Net

[DazedandConfusedinOR]

Not sure if anyone has ever used this place, but I was searching for an affordable alternative to Hotel Abba and came across this place: http://bedandnet.com/.

The location is great. It's a canal-side house at 705 Keizersgracht, which is between Herengracht and Prinsengracht. The house is 4 stories and he offers different size rooms within his smoker friendly home. He also has quite a few reviews on TripAdvisor and most of them are very positive.

I came across this place by way of wimdu.com, a British company that appears to be almost an exact clone of airbnb.com (based in San Francisco), which describes itself as "global network of accommodations offered by locals." Basically, they have listings of rooms and apartments offered by individuals who are subletting their residence (or part of it). It sounded pretty cool, but I didn't like the fact that full payment was required after the host confirmed your reservation. The company does hold your payment and will not release it to the host until 24 hours after successful check-in, but I was still a bit wary and in the process of checking up on the guy who owns the place on Keizersgracht, I discovered he had his own website and only requires you to pay for the first night.

The room I reserved is only 40 euros a night, is on the third floor, and shares a bath on the floor below. The house does have WIFI and the rooms even have computers in them if you don't bring a laptop or tablet.

Just thought I would share this for those looking for alternative accommodations.

[angry pirate]

Nice one Dazed, looks decent.

[ftcarer]

Nice find

[Styl Eli]

The site doesn't work.

[CannaSir]

Avast caught a trojan on trying to open this page! Beware!

[DazedandConfusedinOR]

You people are nuts. I have Norton 360 and this page has no viruses and works fine. Avast is free crapware!

[Ignatius]

I visited the site before but this time got a warning form Google with this explanation:

What is the current listing status for 78.140.153.0?
This site is not currently listed as suspicious.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 2 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 161 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2011-09-20, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2011-09-20.
Malicious software includes 73 scripting exploit(s), 48 exploit(s), 3 trojan(s).

This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS35415 (WEBAZILLA).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, 78.140.153.0 appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 63 site(s) including freepornii.com/, maingaytube.com/, filmx.com.ua/.

Has this site hosted malware?
Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 34 domain(s), including maingaytube.com/, maturexpert.com/, freepornii.com/.

[archambaut]

From the FAQ

Can I smoke in the rooms?

You are free to smoke whatever you like in your room. It is Amsterdam after all.

Anybody tried this place yet?

[FriendlyEdgar]

lol I think I had looked at that room myself, on an apartment booking site... you got the library room? For the record, the penthouse room, or master suite, whatever you want to call it, looks sweeeeeeet!

[archambaut]

lol I think I had looked at that room myself, on an apartment booking site... you got the library room? For the record, the penthouse room, or master suite, whatever you want to call it, looks sweeeeeeet!

I've taken the plunge and booked the Library for 3 nights.
Have to put up with shared bathroom, but that's no worse
than at Zeeburg and a hell of a lot closer to the action.

Will report back afterwards...

[Vim Fuego]

I stayed at this place with a mate in the summer. Stayed in the penthouse bit, pretty cool no curtains so take a blindfold although to be fair the nights are longer now so should'nt be a problem.

Think each room/apartment has a vaporiser in it. No TV but each room has a computer with web access.

Alan's a pretty cool host, and the house is right round the corner from Barneys Lounge and not too far from de pijp.

[archambaut]

Think each room/apartment has a vaporiser in it.

Now that would be cool

Alan's a pretty cool host, and the house is right round the corner from Barneys Lounge and not too far from de pijp.

Barney's Lounge and Stix are closest, though they have had mixed write ups (I've tried neither).
The C/S around Rembrandtsplein are to be universally avoided, by all accounts.

However, it is only about 400m to het Ballonetje, and the same the other way to Mellow Yellow
and Little, so I think I'll probably manage

[Vim Fuego]

Yeah man you'll be good. Worth the trip up to de pijp to visit Katsu and Club Media as well.

[Scrable]

Stayed there in the Penthouse Room with a mate in December last year.
Big couch in front of the huge flat TV, PC with Internet Access (PC is also connected to the TV), small kitchen (with refrigerator), small shower, a terrace and upstairs a small double bed. Very smoker friendly with a Vaporizer also in the room. A little bit dirty for me but cool people hosting it and Barneys is just around the corner.

[Bob2]

has anyone stayed here recently ?? most of reviews are very good, but every 7 comments theres a common this place is disgusting and dirty. im cheap but mate im going with in november wont stay in a dump, do they still have vapes in each room? id go for apartment 1, but pictures can be bloody misleading and been caught out before by hotel spinx (what a Fu_king dump that was)..