A “Sweet” Place to Stay in Amsterdam

We’ve stayed in several different places in Amsterdam in years previous. This year we thought we’d try one of the Sweets Hotel 28 former bridge houses. I know this doesn’t look like much from here, but check out #103 Buiksloterdraaibrug on the link above. The inside is done very compactly like inside a boat. You can see it and a little of the history online. It was sort of a trek to get there: train from the airport, metro to North Amsterdam 2 stops, walk 15 min to find our little bridge house. All worth it. We chose this one for its quiet and being a little apart from the busy-ness of the city. It was a nice place to stay before heading up to our week on Texel.

Since the little bridge house was on a canal and a park, I decided to be brave and rent bikes for us to explore Amsterdam-Noord (our neighborhood). We rented the bikes in the city so that meant biking with all the locals who ride very well on narrow windy canal streets and don’t love slow pokes (me). We managed though, and it was really fun. We also took the ferry back and forth a few times, and that’s an adventure.