Hotel recommendations for Amsterdam

We're also planning a June visit to Amsterdam and the Jordaan area was recommended to us, as well.

FYI - two of Rick's recommendations in that area are unavailable for booking:
- Hotel Brouwer is closing for renovation and won't be available to take 2018 reservations until next April
- Maes B&B is closing permanently

At this point, we're looking at reserving something through AirBnB. It puts us out of the Jordaan area and into the Southern Canal Belt area. The rental we're interested in is near the Rembrandtplein square. It looks like a reasonably central location and good for people watching, but I'm wondering if it'll be a little too close to the nightlife (rowdy/loud). I'd love to hear any opinions about that!

We chose an apartment in Haarlem on a recent 6-night stay. It is a darling little town, quiet, less-touristed, and we enjoyed several wonderful restaurants. Amsterdam is a short train ride away, as are so many little towns for other day trips. We saved quite a bit as lodging costs were less than in Amsterdam proper. We got a huge apartment for less than $170 per night. Could not come close to that in Amsterdam.

You may want to also check Citymundo. They rent apartments and houseboats and are very responsive to inquiries. We in Amsterdam this past October and stayed at the Chasse hotel which was great- south of Jordaan, but on several tram lines. It is in a quite neighborhood with large rooms and excellent service.

Temporary holiday rental market in Amsterdam is in flux. New regulations with some teeth, aimed mostly at AirBnB (limiting maximum rental days per registered property to 90 per 12-month period), have also caught up in its net some older B&Bs that operated somehow in a mild loophole (but, then, there were not that many of them and there were few investors scooping portfolios of 10, even 20 residences to put all of them as rentals - most B&Bs were properties near the operators residences or even adjacent to them).

As a result, those "light-service" B&Bs are having to either become fully registered as de-facto small-hotels (with the fees that follow) or shut down (attractive proposition because housing prices in central Amsterdam* are so high that families long in the business earn quite a windfall that can become a nice addition to their pension fund income) altogether. Now it is the perfect time to get out of the small-scale lodging business and cash out at inflated/overheated prices if you own the property like many old-time B&B operators did.

Throw in the fact overnight visitors count in Amsterdam are 35% up from 2012 (with largest increases in once off-season periods like November and February), and you have even more demand-side pressure on prices.

Amsterdam now also have a moratorium on new hotels within the grachtrondel, though it is administrative decree, not legislation. It is incentivizing construction of new hotels in outer areas with good transportation links such as IJbrug, Westpark, in that once office-only parks near Amsterdam Arena, in the Zuidas...

Anyway, sorry for the off-topic, just wanted to give some perspective on why so many small-and-charming lodging options are shutting down for good, and why the trend is unlikely to stop anytime soon.

• instant cash-purchase would-be buyers are reported to have been paying upwards of 15% of listed prices in hot districts, with a deluge of foreign buyers that had bypassed Amsterdam in the past.