I recently stumbled across a very entertaining YouTube series where Gus Johnson highlights some of the most terrible online reviews from his small town. It reminded me that there’s a huge gold mine of content out there just waiting for me, so I decided to do a little digging. My plan was simple: scour the internet by looking up reviews for any of the places in Amsterdam that I could think of. We’re talking restaurants, museums, housing agencies, buildings, parks and much more. What I was left with was a handful of reviews which I just had to share.
IWO
Those who attend the University of Amsterdam already know what a dark and depressing place IWO is. This is the building where students come to have their examinations and is therefore by default not a fun location to be at. It’s a bit unfortunate that the building itself doesn’t do much to mitigate our dreadful pre-exam feeling of anxiety and stress. These reviews sums up the general consensus about IWO better than I ever could: