Boutique Hotel La Belle Vue

the location was good.
stairs nightmare- 73 steep stairs to our room. be prepared!!
smallest room ever.
The worst part was that we were BITTEN ALIVE by BED BUGS! honestly covered in bites. please don’t stay here.

A mi esposa la picaron los chinches no lo recomiendo

Don’t stay in this hotel, avoid at all cost. The pictures are inaccurate. The pics posted by Expedia are either the hotel 20 years ago or a sister renovated hotel. The area is currently renovated with a lot of roads work, juggling the homeless people was the beginning. When we open the front door, the foul humid smells were poignant. On the first floor, where our room was located, the dust and the shredded wall paper was visible. When we enter the room, the door was already opened as well as the window to certainly cover the vile smells, the room was filthy, stain in the toilets, more than dated shelf, amenities that didn’t work. Two lonely hangers to put your clothes, and nowhere to recharge your phones than the floors. The bed sheets smelled. And all that some something close to 200 GBP a night. This is really greed.
Hotel was full and not able to give another room, and they also offer the refund of our remaining 2 nights on the Saturday morning if we vacated the room by 12 with nowhere to go. It really felt like you don’t like it so just get out, that’s the way we deal with the issue.
The maintenance guy to try to fix the issue and house keeping on the Saturday and the bed sheets when from strange to bleach smells. House keeping didn’t do a good job mapping the floor as the cigarette wrapper were still under the beds.
Expedia customer service helped quickly and responsively, but nothing came out of it. Expedia must vet their properties for accuracy. We were missleading

Room and bedding was clean, although doors and woodwork needed repainting, and bathroom tiles were not done well. The additional door bolt didn't work. Lamp didn't work. TV was useless. Stairs were very steep and there were so many, and you have to go up 2 sets to check in, back down, and then up (for me) another 4 sets to get to room. The bed was rock hard. The bedding and towels were very clean and changed daily. Apart from one wall of tiling, and a weird tap design, the bathroom was decent and modern. Decent location. 20 minute walk to train station. Close to shops and city centre.

This hotel had no elevator and the stairs were very narrow and many. It was very challenging with luggage.
The reception clerk told us that we had to make sure that the bathroom door was closed when we took a shower or the fire alarm will go off. My husband used the bathroom and took a shower and the interior light (motion activated) turned off 3 times while he was in there.
At least they had a coffee machine but the room was very basic and cheap looking more like a youth hostel than a hotel.
The front doors to the rooms are spring loaded and our neighbour left the room maybe once an hour, letting the door slam shut which was very noisy and disturbing.
The hotel was close to the areas that we wanted to visit which was a plus, but the room looked nothing like the one advertised.
Not at all impressed with this hotel. Very disappointed.

The entire stay was ruined when we found bedbugs. The hotel management have been unhelpful. Offered to refund 50% of our cost but have since reneged on this.

Room wasn’t clean, no towels, smelled like freshly smoked cigarettes but I asked for a non-smoking room. The front desk staff was nice and they’re available 24/7.

The room was clean and the toilet had everything you need but the bed was rock hard, location was good, very quite, but we had to go upstairs with the suitcase four floors,

No problems

The mattress was infested with bed bugs I couldn't sleep here and I'm now trying to find an email address to get a refund.

We stayed in a room which was described as with no view. It looked bright on the pics so I thought it had a window that was maybe looking at a wall or a bin yard. But it actually had no window. So I felt very vulnerable in case of fire as I only had 1 exit. The lights were very dim also so it felt even worse. We had one big and 1 small towel for 2 of us. The floor was lifting from where it had been left repeatedly wet and there was a putrid smell. It was less so in the bathroom so it wasn’t from the drains, we couldn’t figure out what it was. The stairs are very steep but I think it’s like that all over Amsterdam. I’m not saying don’t book this place but I’d recommend a different room. The lady on the reception a few doors down was nice.

It is basically a crack den. Only nice thing is the staff and location. Rooms are unclean, blood stained sheets, mould on bathroom floor. It waa pretty dire, felt really unsafe.

Cockroach (or mouse?) in bedroom eating out food in the night. Stains on the bedsheet. Poor shower.

The experience at this hotel was something I'd expect from a youth hostel, not a "boutique" hotel charging over $100 a night. We stayed 5 nights in two of the four attic rooms. My room was the one pictured in the listing, but my companion's room was much smaller, barely large enough to fit his "queen" bed (which was actually two twin mattresses together). His room had a fan, but no garbage can, and my room had a tiny garbage in the bathroom but no fan. The windows in my room did not shut and every morning I woke up covered in bug bites. The shower was incredibly awkward with low pressure and no curtain, and the entire bathroom smelled like a sewer all the time. Lastly, the listing does not mention that these rooms are up five flights of very steep, narrow stairs, so if you have limited mobility you should avoid this hotel.

The staff were friendly and tried to be helpful - when I told them that there was no mug for my hot water pot, they gave me a red Solo cup (it was a moot point anyway, since there was no tea or coffee offered), and the next day they left some paper cups with sugar packets. They did change the sheets and offer fresh towels every day, which was nice. And the location is very centrally located.

Overall, I would only recommend this hotel to students or young people looking for a place to crash after a night out, and even then only if there are not more affordable options available. And if you're the kind of person who doesn't skip leg day.

Located on the upper floors of an older building so the stairs were quite steep and a little awkward with a suitcase. Good central location near lots of dining and bars and only a short walk to tram ride to the train station

Poor hygiene

Not so good

I didn't like the fact there was no lift, and very steep stairs, like climbing a mountain and overall more a hostel, hotel is being generous

I have it one star because I made it through the experience without getting robed, and to the best of my knowledge there were no bedbugs. And those are the highlights. Seriously though, it was filthy, ridiculously hot in the room, and the tiny safe in the room was not fastened to anything. Anyone could have broken in to the room very easily and simply carried the safe away under their arm. The window was open and when I tried to close it filth showered down from on top of it. And it turns out it doesn’t lock anyway. I seriously considered abandoning the money I spent and looking for somewhere else…… anywhere else.

Worse hotel I've ever stayed in, no wardrobe/cupboard in the room so be prepared to live out your bag/suitcase, no fridge, TV couldn't get a signal and paid almost 100 quid a day for the privilege.

Amsterdam generally has the wost value for money hotels along with London, but this place was shocking!