Leonardo Royal Hotel Amsterdam

Very average hotel with an unpleasant stay experience. You should only book this if the location suits your itinerary, price fits your budget, and service is not that important to you. Only plus point is that it is a few minutes walk to overamstel metro station, which you can use to go to some popular locations like dam square, rijkmuseum, albert cuypstraat. Bedrooms are small and not cleaned daily unless you specially request for it. Even when you request for it, only 90% of the room is clean. For example, dirty utensils (eg. cups, forks and plates) are left as it is. The service from the reception staff was honestly not very good. Only half of them serve you with a smile and a few of them do just the minimum to help you. What I was most disappointed with was the professionalism and integrity of one particular staff - Nilesh. On the day of my checkout, my family almost missed our flight because he ordered a taxi that was too small for us (even after I showed him the 3 big luggages which needed to fit into the car) and gave us the wrong information about the airport transfer prices. Firstly, when confronted by the cab driver about ordering the wrong car and wasting her time, he shifted the blame to me and lied that I hadn't request for a bigger car. Secondly, he had originally told me that the 4-seater and 6-seater have the same price, but when the new driver wanted to charge me additional 10 euros, he backtracked on his word and did not offer any help. If i had known this earlier I would have just ordered an Uber through the app. Another big inconvenience I faced was that the telephone was spoilt and not fixed throughout my 5D4N stay. Hence, I had to make almost all of my requests physically at the reception by taking the lift downstairs for 12 floors. The staff encouraged me to download and use an app to make all these requests, but i must admit that the app experience was also very poor. Firstly, it is difficult to log in and navigate the app, secondly on average the staff take 2 hours to reply to my messages on the chat, by then i was either asleep or had already left the hotel to explore the city, hence it takes ages for them to even check the room telephone or give extra tissues.