Bed and Breakfast La Festa

At the newly-opened Bed & Breakfast La Festa, your hosts Bjorn Soeteman and Aydin Ustebay take pride in offering highly personalised service in sleek, stylish, contemporary accommodations at highly competitive rates. Professionally designed by a Dutch architect, our Bed & Breakfast offers all the amenities you would expect of a four-star hotel – including cable TV, hairdryer, work desk, ironing facilities and free Wi-Fi internet.

Ideally situated in the Jordaan area of central Amsterdam, the neighbourhood is dotted with lively cafes, art galleries, and bookshops, and is just minutes away from cultural attractions such as the Anne Frank House and Amsterdam’s world-famous museums. The city’s pulsating dining, shopping, and entertainment areas are just a stone’s throw away.

Not to be missed is the La Festa Italian restaurant, a local landmark in the Jordaan known for its friendly service and delicious fare at low prices. The restaurant is owned by the co-owner of the Bed & Breakfast, and is located on the ground floor of the building.

Our restaurant will be closed for renovation / expansion from 8 January until about 20 February.

Book your room on our site, type "lafesta" in the discount code field and get € 10 discount per night.

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Amsterdam and it’s bikes.

Where most major cities in the world have to deal with enormous amounts of cars and traffic jams, Amsterdam has it’s own problems. This has to do with something typical Dutch: bicycles. Thousands of them that are shoved in and on top of each other in bicycle racks all over the city. Parking bikes has become a big problem in Amsterdam.

The Netherlands has about 16 million inhabitants and just as much bicycles. If you take into account that young children and elderly people do not have bikes and that there are some people that do not own a bike, this means that many inhabitants of Holland have more than one bike per person. Many of these bikes are used as spare bikes or are not used at all and left on the streets.

All these bicycles on Amsterdam’s streets cause nuisance and sometimes even dangerous situations. The Amsterdam council has therefore decided that in the coming year more bike racks will be installed and in some places like Central Station a ‘bike coach’ will tell you where to park your bike and where not.

Source: Amsterdam Magazine, Parool.nl

Canal house museum

Located in the golden bend of the Herengracht, the museum Willet-Holthuysen paints a rich portrait of high-society life in the a800s in Amsterdam. One of the few museums in Amsterdam solely dedicated to the everyday lives of its inhabitants, the Willet-Holthuysen follows the posh couple Louisa Holthuysen and Abraham Willet, the house’s final residents.

Source: Amsterdam Magazine January 2012-01-23

http://www.willetholthuysen.org/en

Cheaper parking in Amsterdam

The council of Amsterdam has plans to make parking your car at the P+R parking lots at the edge of the city a lot cheaper. Today you can park your car there for € 8,- per day. This would become only € 1,- from September. From these parking lots the inner city is easily accessible by public transport. So good news for those of you who are planning to visit Amsterdam in autumn of this year and who are travelling by car.

See this website for further information on P+R parking places in Amsterdam: http://www.iamsterdam.com/en/visiting/touristinformation/gettingaround/parking/park-and-ride

Most popular gay bar in Amsterdam

Cafe Prik in Amsterdam's Spuistraat was voted the most popular gay bar of 2011 by gaysite.nl. Again, because the also won in 2010!

http://www.prikamsterdam.nl/index.asp?ADID=5

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