You might be looking at this hotel and thinking, "Seems like a modern, hip hotel in a convenient area of Amsterdam for a good price -- I should book it!" Did you know, however, that in a city which famously resides below sea level, it's possible for hotel rooms to be in the basement? Neither did I. For four nights, I descended to level "Minus 1" and passed cleaning supplies and bags of sheets from other, presumably above ground, rooms in the hotel, all of which was stored in the hallway. My room's only window looked out onto a courtyard shared with the lobby, so employees and guests could conveniently peer into my subterranean dwelling. In the hallway, the cleaning staff often looked startled to see me, as if I'd wandered into a part of the building where I wasn't supposed to be. "No!" I wanted to say to them. "You don't understand! I was assigned to live down here, despite paying the same price as guests staying on the upper floors." I didn't, but I do know that I won't be back.
