"or near a hotel that have decent public transportation to Amsterdam Centraal."



Missed this the first time through. PL will work for you.

You can go to the normal bidding sites like Betterbidding to see recent wins. They have a few.

Or you can go to Tripadvisor Amsterdam Forum and look at their 153 page on 4 star bidding or their 55 page thread on 5 star bidding. OK just look at the last 10 pages or so of these threads.

You can see the hotels won, dates, and prices.

Right now the hotels we see come up most often are

NH Barbizon Palace at the 5 star level.

NH Amsterdam Centre at the 4*