Euro Trip 2014 - Accommodation

Adam is in charge for our accommodation throughout the whole trip, and basically he’s the banker too (thanks b!), so pretty much all our accommodation was booked by him, though I helped a little bit. 

Amsterdam. 

We stayed in Hotel Liberty, 15 minutes’ walk from Amsterdam Central. Overall, it is quite a strategic location as it is near the metro, the famous Amsterdam cruise are also around the area and conveniently it is quite close to the Red Light District. The hotel, we assumed for the bathroom to be inside the bedroom so imagined our surprise when we found out that it is actually located outside, but thank god it is clean. The stairs are very steep and narrow, so for those with big luggage you got to be careful when you ascend/descend the stairs. The host is a very polite lady, although as we need to check out quite early in the morning, we can’t contact her so we just placed the key inside the room. Wifi is available, although you have to connect through Facebook.

Barcelona

Here, we booked our accommodation using Airbnb. We particularly chose this location; El Gotic because it is THE place to be so it seems. And indeed it was, it was such a lively place, our house is located on the first floor and is just a 5 minutes’ walk from the nearest metro. It was easy to find food as there are a lot of cafes around it, and there are shops all around it actually. It is very near to the famous food market, Mercado de la Boqueria. There are McDonalds and shopping malls so it is actually such a convenient place to stay. The room itself is quite spacious; the toilets are downstairs, fortunately for us the owner is also having his holiday, so we don’t need to share the bathroom with anyone else. 

Madrid

Aaah, and this is definitely my most favourite hotel. We stayed in Hostel Atelier, but don’t be fooled with its surrounding; inside is definitely one comfortable room. It is quite near to the metro station (as always), and in front of the hotel you have lots of shops; food, to buy groceries and what not. It is clean, spacious with heater and proper tv and fast wifi! 

Paris

Our usual neighbourhood when we went to Paris will always be near to the Gare du Nord and Gare de Lest station. While last time, we booked through Airbnb, but for this time since we will be only 2 days here, we decided to stay at Est Hotel. One thing, it is veeeeeeery far from Gare du Nord, though thank god it’s just a straight road. Second thing, you have to pay for the wifi (and it’s not that fast anyway), and it is quite expensive actually. At that time they were renovating the hotel, so some parts of the hotel was a bit dark (no lights) and slightly cramped. Honestly I’d prefer somewhere else hahaha!