We have bamboo throughout the house, except in kitchen and bathroom.
Put it in in November 2008, still very pleased with it.
Bought from www.simplybamboo.co.uk/, negogiated a bulk discount. (Beware - they only deliver to pavement outside house so you have to carry it all in, v heavy.)
They send you free samples, which I thought v useful.
We have the natural strandwoven downstairs, which I smugly think looks stunning. Our perfectionist decorator thought it the nicest flooring he'd seen. Our house is dark, so the glossy floor is good.
Children do need those little sticky bits on the bottom of their socks, though, cos otherwise slippery. DS spent most of babyhood in tiled floor kitchen, so I knew he'd be ok with hardish floor.
Upstairs we have (I think) vertical natural. It's nice too, very Scandinavian blond wood, but less impressive than the downstairs.
But the natural strandwoven would have been ott for our very ordinary bedrooms, also because the planks are wider so would risk making the quite small rooms look even smaller.
It's v easy to clean, I love it after those years of picking baby sick out of old carpets in rented houses.
Crucial to get someone good to install it. Annoyingly we didn't realise the perfectionist decorator could do it and got a floorer instead and he was a bit crap. Did a good job downstairs but then kind of lost interest and his botched bits detract upstairs.
No significant scratches so far. We're fairly careful and don't usually wear shoes indoors, though have DS3 who does all the usual DS3ey messy things. We have large built-in doormat at front door and lino by back door as dirt traps.
I think important not to get the floor too wet. Although the strandwoven is supposed to be ok in kitchens and bathrooms I'm not convinced. If we ever have the money to redecorate those I'm thinking about rubber floors.
But spills and "accidents" haven't caused damage to the bamboo in rest of house so far. Much better than laminate in this respect.
Hope useful.