XO Hotels Blue Square

It was nice except that breakfast ends early at half 10, also there are malls around and food places

Room is clean and comfortable but little bit far away from the centre, need to get the tram and bus to get there.

If you’re a tourist, you’re better off somewhere else. Invest in a good room. Don’t cheap yourself out! We rushed our trip and didn’t get to research hotels properly. We ended up here mainly because of price. If you’re thinking “you get what you pay for”, tbh I think there are places in the same price range who are much better. Anyway, the area is a bit sketchy to start. Dutch people are the minority. The building looks old too, inside AND outside. (Especially inside) Going inside, the lobby already had a certain smell. Further inside, our room smelled SO bad. It was hard to breathe until I adjusted to the smell (no one has to go through this!). I’d get a whiff of piss smell from time to time too, it was awful. The bottom of the bed was full of dust too. Something was probably hidden there. Then for the service, housekeeping doesn’t speak English. This gave me a feeling that maybe this hotel isn’t meant for tourists, but probably for migrants. One off thing that happened was 2 housekeeping people just barged in while we were inside. One good thing about our stay though was the bathroom. It was nice, and I think was recently renovated. Really nice.

We encountered some difficulties locating this hotel due to its distant location from the city center. It took us approximately 30 minutes to travel from the hotel to Amsterdam Central. Upon our arrival at the hotel, we were informed that they were offline and unable to check us in. They had no estimate for when their system would be back online. During our stay, there was an incident where two males entered my daughter's room. This occurred because the staff at the reception had mistakenly marked the room as unoccupied in the system. Although the hotel apologized and offered us a complimentary breakfast, the incident left us feeling uncomfortable and concerned. Housekeeping was also inconsistent, with some mornings where the rooms were not cleaned properly. Additionally, we discovered a dead cockroach in our room. We found it on day 1, and after 5 nights in this hotel, it was still lying on the carpet, indicating that housekeeping did not vacuum our room once during our 5-day stay. Also, some of our towels were dirty. Despite the rooms being relatively spacious, the hotel's location is unfavorable. Consequently, I would not recommend this hotel.

Room size was ok and beds comfortable. It is far from the city center but well connected by public transport

Nice and clean room, a bit far to the center area but near with public transport. There is car parking as well