If you're planning on taking kids to Artis zoo then this hotel is just across the road, and their triple and quad rooms are very much aimed at families....

A takeaway - with a few chairs - with superlative soups, sandwiches, salads and meals. Ask for a fork and hit a canalside bench.

New Catalan tapas hotspot that is in peaceful contrast to the hectic Mexican noise-fest Rose's Cantina, which it joins on to. Simple and pure.

Open only for breakfast, lunch and a full-blown high tea, Gartine is a testament to slow food served up by a friendly couple who grow their own veg and...

Cheap, cheerful, tasty, filling. That's what the food is like at this sparkly diner at the back of the thoroughly mixed lesbian and gay lounge. On Wednesday...

The first gay hotel in town, the Golden Bear's rooms are spacious and comfortable, though not all have private bathrooms. Single rooms have double beds.

Service at this teashop is friendly but can tend to be on the slow side. Everything is freshly made, though, so forgive them: cakes, scones and muffins are...

Ideal for flower power freaks who want to stock up on bulbs, this homey little place in an 18th-century house on a canal is right in the thick of it, very...

This higgledy-piggledy place in an old Dutch East India Company sea captain's house is perched on a secluded little canal near the river. The rooms here are...

A cosy hotel that exudes a touch of faded glamour. Rooms - though a touch dark - are nicely decorated with clunky, polished period furniture and...

A bit of a hike from the sights and the centre, but trams stop right outside to whisk you in to town in ten minutes, and the Pijp is a 15-minute walk away....

If you're arriving in town late or leaving first thing, this place is ideal, not only because it's as close to the railway station as it's physically...

An indulgent floating option, this converted cargo boat near the up-and-coming cultural quarter sleeps up to five sybarites, and comes with two bathrooms,...

Situated in a listed building on a quiet stretch of Prinsengracht convenient for the gay hot spots, the ITC Hotel has 20 charming rooms. The free internet...