Qbic Hotel

Great value for money. My partner and I didn’t mind that it was totally open. Or no door on the bathroom. Close to the where it all happens 9 tram stops run up until midnight. Recommend for all those on a budget and don’t want to stay at a hostel. Plus there is English speaking tv

One of the most pleasant hotel stays in my life.
Easily accessibly by the excellent public transport services in Amsterdam, this hotel has funky rooms which have a massive bed integrated into a workstation with chairs and a bathroom — all open plan. There’s also a massive TV built into the bed.
The lighting is bright and colourful and there’s plenty of room for all your gear.
Free WIFI, snacks downstairs with optional breakfast and TV’s with a networked computer to look up Google maps etc.
Everything we were needing for our trip.
Hassle-​free from the moment we went to drop our bags off, only to learn they were cool with us checking in early.
Recommended.

After searching and deliberating over which hotel in Amsterdam to crash at, I came across the Qbic. Picked it cause it was pretty cheap and the web pictures had pretty cool looking rooms.
Before you even bother reading the rest of this. Qbic is a hotel to sleep, shower and check ya email at. know this. I’d best describe Qbic as a trendy, no frills, In & Out kina place. There’s absolutely nothing to do in the hotel, but it’s very Clean and the rooms are very Cool.
So Qbic is in a real quiet, low-​key area about a 15 minute tram ride to Leidseplein (city center); It’s considered Amsterdam South or in World Trade Center area. If you want to be in the middle of the action/​parties/​tourist central this is not the place to book. Can’t stress enough how quiet and low key it is. This might work for you, it may not. But knowing is half the battle.
What’s good is that the tram is located right down the block from the hotel and the train is right there on the opposite side. A real easy and accessible location by day, but like fellow Unilocaler FJ v. mentioned, you may have to take a cab after 12am. (15 Euros from the City Center)
The different staff persons I came across at the front desk (if you could even really consider it a front desk) were all laid back and helpful. One dude went out his way to help me a find a European adapter that would be compatible for my laptop charger. No luck finding one but the effort was much appreciated. The hotel offers free Wi-​Fi, which is really easy to connect to. There’s a continental breakfast from 6−11am where fresh pastries, cereal, yogurt and sandwich meats are offered. Descent stuff.
Yeah, the cool looking rooms. So you got this space shippy looking room in all white with no windows and funky glowing neon lights that change color. You can adjust the lights to strobe and all these other crazy settings. The bed & bathroom are two attached cubes. Yeah, two attached cubes. The bed is a queen-​size comfy mattress located in an open cube. There’s a small flat screen television attached to the one of the bedpost and there are like a gazillion outlets (European) available around the room to plug your gadgets into. The headboard to the bed is the wall that separates the bathroom from the bed area. Sounds kina weird and gross but it works. On the other side of the wall is a small but clean, sleek, modern looking bathroom. No door to the bathroom side of the cube and a see thru shower inside. I was solo so it wasn’t an issue, but if you’re with a friend it should probably be someone your comfortable with.
I really have no complaints. Qbic is a cool place to rest ya head at if you wana be close to the action but not on top of it. I’d stay there again for sure.

Cheap. Far far nicer than city-​center rooms for the same price. I actually like not having windows, I sleep better. Insanely quick connection from airport. Fantastic connection to south and central Amsterdam in 20 minutes with Tram line 5. Not so good for coming back after midnight, but it’s like € 15 from the center with a taxi.
Stay alone, 2 people per room only works if you are seriously intimate. Check the gym Clibsportiv (
) on the other side of the Amsterdam WTC station for one of the cheapest day-​passes to a wonderful gym in the city to wake you up after your night.

This budget trendy hotel is in the south of Amsterdam. It’s located within an office building and the bed and the bathroom are these creative modular structures. Very smart and efficient, but with the added cool factor of customizable colored lighting.
The bathroom has no door so if you’re sharing the room with someone, they can see everything! If you’re sharing this room, it better be with someone you are intimate with.
As a place for a bed, it’s a great value. It’s a little far from the center of Amsterdam, but it’s right by the tram station. It’ll take 10 minutes to get to the northern area of Amsterdam. There’s really not much around the hotel since it’s in the business district so there isn’t really much of a night life.
Some minor issues I had were that you can’t control the air temperature in the room. It’s apparently controlled by a centralized system. So my room was especially cold. Also, my room was near a steel staircase, so I could hear employees in the morning walking. It was fairly loud. Lastly, there is no restaurant so you can only get a typical European cold breakfast.

This is not the type of place I would normally stay at, but it worked out really well. I was going to spend the weekend in Bruges and it was going to cost more money than I should spend on the hotel so I needed to save some money. This was just the place. It’s right on the metro into the Centrum. There are some dining options nearby.
The system is simple. It’s fully automated. The rooms are prefab setups. I’m not sold on all the colored light system — especially in the room, but that’s a minor nit. The bigger one is the lack of a comfortable chair to relax in. However, the bed is comfortable. If I were needing a budget place to stay Qbic would be on my short list of places to look at. One issue that’s very European and not American is the openness of the bathroom. I only mention it because I know people who would consider it a big thing. There are pictures for the hotel that show this.