If you feel like it you can spit down right into the canal from your window – but it wouldn’t suit the dapper ambience of this boutique hotel. But it would be possible, after all, and that makes one point for the hotel: View of the Grachts from all rooms.

Two more points for the two owners, because they add personality to the hotel and managed to upgrade the 16^th-century house. The nine rooms are a perfect mix of old and new: wooden floors, brickwork and wing chairs; straight lines, bright red and designer furniture. The hotel is fantastic as long as you stick to its rules: “Love, be passionate, be spontaneous, dream big, celebrate, change the world or go home”. And the hotel won’t allow animals, children or drugs. No problem.

The price for one night in the double room starts from 149 Euros.