August 04, 2004

Amsterdam

Gary and I are going to Europe for the entire month of September. The trip is part of our big wedding plans: quietly elope, go on a big trip (aka honeymoon), come home and have a party.

Up until last night all we had were plane tickets to Amsterdam and back from Athens, a rough itinerary, and Eurail passes. After spending several hours looking at what seemed were all the 2-star hotels in Amsterdam, we stumbled on a site that listed the Maes B&B as being the #2 rated place to stay. We did some research: we found 32 good reviews of the place, but it only has 4 rooms. Surely they'll be booked, I thought. Gary thought that it would be worth contacting them to check, though, and we received a reply email half an hour later saying that they have a room for us!

We are leaving in exactly 4 weeks. But we've got a place for our first 3 nights, and I think we got lucky with it. The other hotels I had picked out had mediocre reviews (some of them so bad that we instantly took them off our list despite their good price and location). We still need to find places to stay in Brussels, Bern, Rome, and Athens, I'm hoping we can stay lucky and find similar places.

Posted by Jen at August 4, 2004 07:57 AM
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