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Amistad in the Museum Quarter. two of them; the English
MAP L6 • Kerkstraat 42, Though plain, most of the cottage and the
1017 GM • 020 624 8074 20 rooms are spacious, Netherlands house
• www.amistad.nl • €€ some with features next door.
Exclusively gay, this such as fireplaces and
old hotel has been window seats. The Quentin Golden Bear
vamped up. The rooms breakfast room opens MAP L6 • Kerkstraat 37,
are stylish, with red being on to a pretty garden. 1017 GB • 020 624 4785
the predominant colour, • www.quentingolden-
and some have shared Mauro Mansion bear.com • €€
facilities. Self-catering MAP Q2 • Geld ersekade The Golden Bear
apartments and pent- 16, 1012 BH • 061 297 welcomes both gay and
houses are also available. 4594 • www.mauro straight guests. It has
Breakfast is served until mansion.com • €€ been popular since it
1pm, handy if you’ve been Conveniently located near first opened in 1948. With
out late the night before Centraal Station, this a pretty façade and 11
at one of the nearby gay lovely boutique hotel clean, neat rooms, some
clubs and saunas. welcomes both gay and with shared facilities, it’s
straight guests. Mauro situated in Kerkstraat – a
Apartments Mansion’s owners, Berry street in the Canal Ring
Unlimited and Marcel, have created where there are several
020 620 1545 • www. a romantic and restful other gay-friendly venues.
apartments-unlimited. environment. Choose
com/cities/amsterdam one of the rooms with Flower Market Hotel
• €€ a canal view. MAP M5 • Singel 458,
Not a hotel but a service 1017 AW • 020 421 6621
offering a variety of Quentin • www.flowermarket
accommodation options MAP J6 • Leidsekade 89, hotel.com • €€€
in central Amsterdam: 1017 PN • 020 626 2187 Bedrooms are a cut above
choose from several • www.quentinhotels. at this smart, gay- friendly
studios, apartments, com • €€ hotel within easy reach of
houseboats and an A prime example of an the artistic treasures of
exclusively gay B&B Amsterdam hotel that, the Museum Quarter and
near Amstel River. although not exclusively the historic centre. The
gay, extends a warm distinctive reception room
Hotel Downtown welcome to its many gay has a black-and-white
Amsterdam guests. Women in floor and antique
MAP L6 • Kerkstraat 25, particular make this furniture. The famous
1017 GA • 020 777 6877 friendly, well-kept little Bloemenmarkt (see
• www.amsterdam hotel near Leidseplein pp112–13) and Leidseplein
downtownhotel.nl • €€ their base, as do visiting are both within short
In the gay enclave of musicians – popular clubs walking distance.
Kerkstraat, this friendly Paradiso and Melkweg
hotel is in a great are nearby (see pp70–71). Budget Hotels
location. There are 24
bright and clean rooms, Quentin England Amstel Botel
and they all come with MAP C5 • Roemer NDSM Pier 3
en -suite facilities. Visscher straat 30, 1054 (Amsterdam-Noord)
EZ • 020 616 6032 • 020 626 4247 • www.
Hotel Sander • www.quentinengland. amstelbotel.com • €
MAP C6 • Jacob com • Dis. access • €€ The idea of staying on a
Obrechtstraat 69 • 020 A row of seven unusual boat in Amsterdam has a
662 7574 • www.hotel- houses in this street certain charm, but the
sander.nl • Dis. access represents the downside of the Amstel
• €€ architectural styles of Botel is that it isn’t
A gay-friendly hotel seven different nations. moored in central
situated behind the This cosy, gay-friendly Amsterdam, and the
Concertgebouw (see p122) establishment occupies rooms (or cabins if you

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