The Hilton Amsterdam is one of my favorite hotels in Amsterdam - if not the world. The location is amazing (in Amsterdam Zuid, which is not touristy), the staff is nice, and the rooms luxurious. I love staying here whenever I am in Amsterdam. But if you want to be in the "center of the action." This is not the place to stay.

In December 2011, I stayed at the Hilton Amsterdam with my new company. We were there for one night and all of us had dinner in Roberto's restaurant.

Overall, the stay was a very enjoyable experience (and not only because I didn't have to pay!), with a swift check-in and very well appointed rooms.

Decor was very pleasant and the room was fresh and modern with a nice cosy feel to it. The bathroom was a good size and featured a powerful shower situated over the bath.

The view from our room was pretty outstanding, affording quite the vista looking out over (some of) the city. I suppose that really the only negative I could give the hotel is that it is quite far away from the city sights. We walked and it took us about 45 minutes to get into the main part of Amsterdam.

I would find it difficult to fault the Hilton Amsterdam in any way, and I certainly think it upholds the Hilton tradition extremely well. In the evening, my work colleagues and I ate dinner at Roberto's restaurant (in the hotel) which, as the name suggests, is an Italian affair. The food was very good, although I suspect it would have been even better had we not been eating en masse.

The following morning (after an excellent night's sleep) we enjoyed a real 5-star quality breakfast, with the chef coming around to each table individually to ask for your egg-based preferences - a nice touch!

And of course, for fans of The Beatles, the Hilton Amsterdam is the famous hotel in which John and Yoko staged their legendary 'bed in' back in 1969 (although I forgot to look for their room when I stayed there!).

Overall: a great hotel, but not so great if you want to be close to the city highlights.

I liked this hotel. It's located outside the city centre and main attraction areas in a nice and quite residential area, to get to the city centre you need to take a tram (kinda expensive) and it takes 15 minutes. So if it's your first Amsterdam visit i would recommend to find smth more centrally located, otherwise a high hotel is good. Rooms are nice, cozy in dark traditional Dutch colours and well equipped. The bed was really comfortable for sleep. The breakfast was amazing and from huge windows you can see taking off and approaching Schiphol planes. All services 9restaurant, boat cruise, the internet) are unbelievable expensive, like 17 eur for 1 hour of slow wifi. Crazy.

Let me start by saying the staff was wonderfull. The manager should get a raise because everyone was helpful and went above and beyond. We were offered sparkling wine at breakfest, dinner recommendations in the executive lounge and turndown service in the room. From the outside the hotel is nothing special, but the rooms are well done. If you are gold member or stay on the executive level, the lounge is a bit small but very well supplied. The gym is very nice and large by Hilton standards again it is free for gold + members. Yes, this property is not downtown. However you can take the 16 tram that drops you off at Emmastraat station. When you get out of Central train station - follow 'tram' sign outside. All the trams stop here. You can buy a 1hr (2.6 Euro), 24hr (7 Euro), or 48hr ticket in the office just outside of the train station get in line or buy at the ticket machine (its easy). Or you can buy a 1hr ticket from the driver, not sure if you can buy 1-2 day passes from the driver. It takes 20 minutes to get from Central Train station to Emmastraat. When you get off the tram at Emmerstraat look in the direction the tram is traveling, now look left, you can see the hotel 2 blocks away on your left had side. I would recommend using the trams instead of a hop-on-hop off bus. The Hitlon has a map the lists all the sites and tram/metro routes. Restaurant at Hilton is fine for breakfast but for dinner take a 5 minute walk to Bella Vista - good Italian. Good value and great people - always a plus when going on vacation.