If you are straight enough to notice the accommodation - youre doing something wrong!....... Who cares where you stay, all you need is somewhere to dump your stuff and crash out if it all gets a bit much. I'm going over in a couple of weeks (8th trip) and every hotel I've stayed in (some cheap some expensive) have been the same. Steep stairs, pokey rooms, rats in the walls, bread & cheese for breakfast. I've mostly stayed round Leidesplein though - I like it round about there. On a diffrent note, I hear they are closing down the coffeeshops and mushroom emporiums as of the end of the year. Anyone else heard anything?