Amsterdam in general

...review about. I recently visited Amsterdam in February 2005 on a mini cruise and compiled information to write this review. Take a map and remember where you visited as the streets look the same and you can find yourself walking in circles. One of the main reasons why UK tourists visit Netherlands is because it is extremely close to home. People decide to stay in Amsterdam because of the wonderful sights and culture; the Dutch inhabitants are very ...
...for an active family holiday. Amsterdam is a fascinating city with a maze of canals and ancient merchant houses. The Netherlands is a low-lying country and half of its landmass is below sea level. The Western part is below sea level and is covered in clay and peat soils split with canals, rivers and parts of the sea. The Eastern part of The Netherlands is above sea level and is very flat. ==Entertainment== Daytime Events Towns and cities are very ...

Jennyrose 18.10.2005 · Read full review
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...last minute to go to Amsterdam for the weekend. I had heard lots of stories, especially surrounding the Red Light District & smoking cannabis, although had also heard that Amsterdam was much more than this and it should not be judged on rumours. Yeah right! So with a semi open mind the six of us flew out from Manchester on the evening of 19 October. ***Booking*** Whilst I was not involved with the booking everything was booked online (I am not going ...
...friends! You can fly to Amsterdam from almost every main UK airport. After a very eventful check in at Manchester, eventful because they had overbooked the flights and too many people had turned up but we somehow wangled our way onto the flight and we arrived at Schiphol Airport after an hours flight. We were very quickly through immigration and collected our bags. We had decided to get the train into the City as our hotel was located close to Central ...

TheWizardsSleeve 28.11.2007 · Read full review
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...numerous times I've spent in Amsterdam as I usually make the journey by coach. A short review on Ciao is insufficiuent for a large bohemian metropolitan so I wish to concentrate on the Red Light District, an area that has become my second home in Europe. If you are considering a first time trip to Amsterdam or are a seasoned traveller and frequent visitor to the home of Rembrandt and Anne Frank, I hope that my collection of stories, advice, descriptions ...
...Amsterdam is graced by my paranoid presence once a year, usually when I've come into an ample amount of somebody else's money, i.e. student loan. Well what the hell did you think I was gonna spend it on? Books? As previously mentioned, I suffer the intolerable hell of allowing Eurolines Coaches to transport me but for roughly £65 return from London I'm not about to complain. Just remember to take a bottle of scotch or an 8 pack of Special Brew lager ...

DangerMouse2005 21.07.2005 · Read full review
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...I have been going to Amsterdam on holiday, since my mum moved there when I was 10. Twelve years later I still go back at least once a year. Some people have very negative images of Amsterdam It is however a beautiful city with lots more to do than visit the red light district. I am going to focus on sleeping and eating in Amsterdam otherwise I’d be here all day!! The City ******* Amsterdam is situated in west Holland, close to the Ijsselmeer ...
...district’. However the whole of Amsterdam is covered with restaurants, bars and coffee shops and the ones that aren’t situated in the city centre tend to be the best. How to get there ************* Amsterdam is very easy and cheap to get to. I normally fly by easy jet from Liverpool airport and it usually cost me about 60 pounds (in the summer or at Christmas), the prices vary with easy jet the most I have paid for my plane ticket is 70 pounds ...

carminator 01.10.2003 · Read full review
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...on. You think of Amsterdam and what do you visualise. SEX capital of the world. However, it is not always famous for this and stag doos. Amsterdam is full of atmosphere, culture and history. The City's intensity and historic decor stimulate all the senses. Numerous world cultures are represented in welcoming, multi coloured Amsterdam. This is reflected in the art and culture, the highly varied shops and the many restaurants. The 17th century atmosphere ...
...At the same time Amsterdam is a lively, bustling city. Last year, myself and my new wife spent a week in Amsterdam, for our honeymoon. In the city of love. It was the greatest week of my life, not just because it was my honeymoon, but because of Amsterdam itself. We went by Ferry from Newcastle upon Tyne, which only cost us £482 (inc 4 nights stay in the hotel Eden, a 4 star hotel in the city). The crossing was plesent enough, in December. Once ...

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THE GOOD Amsterdam is without a doubt my favourite destination.Full of life, bursting at the seams with culture and some of the prettiest spots to just sit and watch the world go by.... No wonder then its a first choice for couples of all persausions, plenty of time to talk and plenty to talk about.Whenever I go it always feels a bit like going home.I thought I was taking a big risk asking my girlfriend Jo (Madamejojo to some) to go, Jo knows I ...
...saw how laidback and wild Amsterdam can be at times I would have blown any chance of ever going back (alone or otherwise) but to my surprise she fell in love with the place and the people.Everyone in Amsterdam seems to speak good English so getting what you want is not normally a problem, although service is often painfully slow at times. Amsterdam is packed full of good things, Mueseums(400 or so), coffeshops (you can skin up but not drink), brown ...

sonicmk 24.10.2002 · Read full review
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...ease). Upon arrival in Amsterdam itself, we made perhaps the first big mistake of the trip. We had decided not to book a hotel in advance, feeling that it would be more of an adventure just to turn up in a foreign country and ‘wing it’. So, instead of trying to find a hotel, we decided to do what any three self respecting young males should do and headed straight for the nearest bar. Except that in Amsterdam, many of the bars also double ...
...is in the heart of Amsterdam would be slightly misleading. It would be more accurate to describe it as being in the ‘heart’ of the red light district, which, by reputation, is the seediest and dodgiest place in Europe. By this point we didn’t really care. The map was accurate and the directions good, and it was a relief to find that we had actually been booked in by the aforementioned helpful lady, and she hadn’t just taken ...

bphester99 15.08.2001 · Read full review
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...train to the centre of Amsterdam and despite the man robbing the change out of a vending machine we felt very safe. It was extremely easy to buy the tickets in the airport and the only slight problem we had was determining which train was going our way. When that problem had been sorted it was straight into Amsterdam for the fun to start. Accomodation Us being four students on a tight budget we opted for staying in a Youth Hostel called 'The Flying ...
...I firmly believe that the Amsterdam experiece was elevated due to "the pig" as it has since become affectionately known. It offered clean safe rooms with lockable cupboards, a happy room (it is amsterdam!!), extremely friendly staff and possibly the best thing being a very cheap bar with happy hour and drinks specials. Transport Over the course of our visit we found that getting around was so unbelivably easy, we walked everywhere for the first ...

daveystaffs 30.11.2005 · Read full review
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...‘Prostitution Information Centre’ Amsterdam is also renowned for its drug culture, but is seems that this has worked. It appeared that most of this was smoked in the licensed cafés, and only twice did I smell the distinctive smell of drugs in the streets. There was never any sign of stoned people on the street, even late at night. It is a bit strange coming from a country that is so strict on drugs to see drug-smoking equipment on display ...
...in newsagents and many other shops. The cafés are spread throughout the city and are not just confined to a particular area, so the drug culture is difficult to avoid but I saw no signs of trouble related to drugs. The price of a pint of beer in the city ranges from about £1.90 to an astonishing £4, so a bit of a drunken pub crawl could end up a bit expensive if you end up in the £4 place so be warned. The drinking age is 16, which wasn’t a ...

chr15_ 10.08.2001 · Read full review
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...mention of a weekend in Amsterdam always results in your fellow workers nudging, winking and discussing the possibility that you could in fact be a sex-crazed, drug addict. Of course you do nothing to allay their fears and I always take the opportunity to mention the fact that our chosen hotel has a waterbed, a jacuzzi and.....oh yes, a wonderful canal view. :-) The introduction of direct flights by Easyjet from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Amsterdam ...
...ticket office (return ticket to Amsterdam around £7) and then to the railway terminal, underneath the airport. The double-decker trains are quite a novelty and run every 20 minutes. After a 30 minute journey you arrive in what can only be decribed as bike city. The number of bikes parked outside the station has to be seen to be believed. Amsterdam is actually quite a small city in comparison to London or Edinburgh and a taxi ride from the station ...

spangle359 14.07.2001 · Read full review
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Amsterdam - Where to begin? We'll start off at Zentralstation, where most people arrive in "the dam." It's a bit murky and you don't want to hang around there long with a lot of dodgy types lingering about there. Once outside, you'll be greeted by a mass of people, busy road and trams flying about left right & centre. Amsterdam is located near the coast in the North West of Holland, it is served by Schipol Airport and a ferry port. Getting There ...
...In the Dam! Amsterdam on first impressions, is a very busy & unique city & the 3 times I've been there, its always been cloudy! The people are quite friendly and the transport around the city is good, with the trams frequent & quite cheap. Taxis are not too expensive either. For most Brits, a good thing about Amsterdam & Holland in general is that many Dutch people have a good command of English. Food is akin to many capitals, with many McDonalds ...

sjl02 10.08.2001 · Read full review
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...long day and night in Amsterdam is like then read on In work last year, one of the lads organised a week-end trip to Amsterdam. I was off so missed out on a place. A week before they were due to go, somebody dropped out and I was in. Marvelous, I thought, I had money, I hadn't been abroad for ages and I could do with a break. Then, somebody mentioned passports. It was Thursday, we were travelling the following Friday and I didn't have one, Doh! ...
...afternoon. The journey to Amsterdam was a bit of a blur as I was on the wrong end of a bottle of vodka but it did mean I didn't have to deal with a choppy late night ferry journey. The whole journey from leaving Sunny Cardiff to arriving in Amsterdam took around 12 hours so it's a far trek if you do it this way. So, I think I've set the scene. Weather We went in February and the weather was okay. Not warm and not cold. British weather but not as ...

Ork1927 23.03.2001 · Read full review
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...who aren't from the Netherlands. Amsterdam is known worldwide for it's open and free culture, you have heard the rumours; you can get weed on every street corner, the people walk on clogs and traditional clothing, the red light district, the sex museum, I could go on for ages. Some of those rumours are actually true..we do walk on clogs! No, just kidding, but it is a fact that Amsterdam is very, very open, and you can get weed or hash on every street ...
...off. So, be careful. Amsterdam has 2 famous streets where all the main shops are located; Kalverstraat and Leidsestraat. You will find shops like H&M, Lush, Bodyshop, The American Bookstore and many other well known shops. Make sure you grab a sandwich at 'Bakkerij Bart', they are good! Always very busy, but it's worth it! If you want to buy cheap stuff, and do sightseeing at the same time, make you visit Waterlooplein. This is a huge market and ...

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...much needed city break to Amsterdam from Belfast. I can say l was overly excited about getting away - but when l got there l realised that l really did need to get away from daily life! So we put the cat in the cattery (she was not happy l can tell you!) and got ourselves to the airport! FLIGHTS We took an easy jet flight straight from Belfast International to Amsterdam Schipol (or as we affectionately called it SH*THOLE!). The flight was 1 hour ...
...and wear flat shoes - Amsterdam is largely cobbled and not good for heels of any kind. You could also consider the push bike - this is where the title stems - they are everywhere and they do not stop for no one - not even at pedistrain crossings. I found this out the hard way when l was mown down by a push bike - but please dont be too concerned l only have a bruise to show for my debacle!!! Trams are another favourite mode of transport in the ...

purdy 25.06.2001 · Read full review
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Well I am in Amsterdam each year at least once. Most of the time only to see the American Football game of the NFL Europe between the Frankfurt Galaxy (my favorite team) and the Amsterdam Admirals. They also play in the greatest and most modern soccer stadium in europe: the Amsterdam Arena But that is basicly all that I consider great about that city. Some folks call Amsterdam the Venice of the netherlands, because you can take plenty of boat tours ...
...coast. The inner city is historic and it shows considering the style the houses are built. But now to the reasons why I learned to hate Amsterdam(n). The first time I was there folks that identified me as german were really rude. On every corner in the inner city there was someone offering me `great deals on pot`and wanted to lead me to the next shop. In the Netherlands Pot is legal and so there are lost of germans are going there to pot shop. That ...

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