Amsterdam Hotel Recommendation

Price range? I'd start your search by using something like Booking.com that has filters so you can weed out properties that don't meet your criteria (fyi, elevator is listed under "room accessibility"). I don't think a bar is one of the criteria (but a restaurant is). If you are in a central location there undoubtably be a bar near you. I picked a random three nights in early August with those criteria and found 66 properties. You don't have to use that site to book but it is helpful for options.

Good suggestion, thank you

The Hotel Estherea fits all of your requirements. We loved our stay there. It is not cheap, but keep an eye on their instagram page as they had a special when we booked and it covered breakfast. Normally breakfast there is a bit spendy, but with the promo code this made the hotel more cost efficient than others we were looking at.

I got all covered at a reasonable rate, except for the elevator. We did a week at the Nadia Hotel, near the Anne Frank House and it had a free breakfast (nice), but no elevator. The entire week cost $1000.
If you want that $$$$$

Hello,
Thank you all for your recommendations. I have booked a hotel so I am now good.

Thank you for the Hotel Nadia recommendation. Just booked it!

We have stayed at Hotel l’Ambassade several times and always enjoy it.

Thank you so much 🙏

No matter which hotel you stay in, one thing is sure to excite you: 33.5% total taxes (VAT + city tourist tax).

In the EU it’s illegal for hotels to not include mandatory charges like VAT and City tax in their advertised rates. So no matter how high or low, the VAT and city tax will already be included in the room rates.

But if you do your initial screening on booking.com while you're in the US, the initial results screen (showing multiple hotels) will just have the base rate, with no fine print warning about omission of taxes. Then when you click through to the page showing what rooms are available at the selected hotel, the base rate is shown in a large font with an itsy-bitsy footnote about the taxes, which are given in the form of percentages rather than euros/dollars/etc. It can be quite the shock when you progress through the transaction and eventually see the real price (though even then I'm not sure the city tax is always rolled in).

I do most of my hotel-booking while I'm overseas, so I tend to forget about the tax situation on US websites from one year to the next.

Folks making non-refundable reservations need to be very, very careful.