Guidebook for Amsterdam

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Guidebook for Amsterdam

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Rent your own bike. www.frederic.nl/
28 locals recommend
Frederic Rent a Bike
23 Binnen Wieringerstraat
28 locals recommend
Rent your own bike. www.frederic.nl/
10-15 min. walk from our house. When flying we walk to the station and take the train to the airfield (Schiphol). If you have time, take a coffee at the first class restaurant on perron 1.
1346 locals recommend
Amsterdam Centraal station
Stationsplein
1346 locals recommend
10-15 min. walk from our house. When flying we walk to the station and take the train to the airfield (Schiphol). If you have time, take a coffee at the first class restaurant on perron 1.
Great place to be!
4196 locals recommend
Vondelpark
4196 locals recommend
Great place to be!
By car, the nearest Park en Ride is Sloterdijk. Park your car and then take the train to Central station. Costs are EUR 7 per day (first get ticket at counter). incl. Railwaytickets. adr Piarcoplein 1
31 locals recommend
P+R Sloterdijk
1 Piarcoplein
31 locals recommend
By car, the nearest Park en Ride is Sloterdijk. Park your car and then take the train to Central station. Costs are EUR 7 per day (first get ticket at counter). incl. Railwaytickets. adr Piarcoplein 1

Food Scene

Be surprised. If we really want to surprise ourselves, we go to Prego. Very small excellent restaurant. A bit steep in price, but really worthwhile.
Prego Restaurant
25 Herenstraat
Be surprised. If we really want to surprise ourselves, we go to Prego. Very small excellent restaurant. A bit steep in price, but really worthwhile.
Excellent restaurant!
313 locals recommend
Toscanini
75 Lindengracht
313 locals recommend
Excellent restaurant!

Sightseeing

Go to the back of the Central Station and take a ferry to NDSM. A beautiful free cruise to a former shipyard. Coffee in the Y-kantine and back. A former Soviet nuclear submarine is in the harbour.
166 locals recommend
NDSM
28 NDSM-Plein
166 locals recommend
Go to the back of the Central Station and take a ferry to NDSM. A beautiful free cruise to a former shipyard. Coffee in the Y-kantine and back. A former Soviet nuclear submarine is in the harbour.
rent your own electric boat. At walkingdistance from our house. € 50 first hour, every next € 10 less. reservations info@canalmotorboats.com, + 31 (0) 20 422 70 07, Zandhoek 10 A, 1013 KT Amsterdam
17 locals recommend
Canal Motorboats
22 Zandhoek
17 locals recommend
rent your own electric boat. At walkingdistance from our house. € 50 first hour, every next € 10 less. reservations info@canalmotorboats.com, + 31 (0) 20 422 70 07, Zandhoek 10 A, 1013 KT Amsterdam

Essentials

Right behind us is a great supermarket. Open 7 days a week, till 10:00 pm.
303 locals recommend
AH Westerstraat
79 Westerstraat
303 locals recommend
Right behind us is a great supermarket. Open 7 days a week, till 10:00 pm.
Get your bread here. Advisable: white Pave and Gran Mere Meergranen
31 locals recommend
Vlaamsch Broodhuys Haarlemmerstraat Amsterdam
108 Haarlemmerstraat
31 locals recommend
Get your bread here. Advisable: white Pave and Gran Mere Meergranen
ON Satturday go to the market. There is a regular market in this street; Near the Noorderkerk (the church) is a market with biological products. On Mondays there is a cloth-market in the Westerstraat.
892 locals recommend
Noordermarkt
42B Noordermarkt
892 locals recommend
ON Satturday go to the market. There is a regular market in this street; Near the Noorderkerk (the church) is a market with biological products. On Mondays there is a cloth-market in the Westerstraat.

Arts & Culture

Around the corner is a Arthouse cinema. Great atmosfeer and movies.
429 locals recommend
The Movies
159 - 163 Haarlemmerdijk
429 locals recommend
Around the corner is a Arthouse cinema. Great atmosfeer and movies.
The Anne Frank house is at about 10 min. walking distance. It is on the same canal as where our house is.
2775 locals recommend
Anne Frank House
20 Westermarkt
2775 locals recommend
The Anne Frank house is at about 10 min. walking distance. It is on the same canal as where our house is.
The BIM house is one of the main jazz concert-places in Amsterdam. Check www.bimhuis.nl to see if there are interesting concerts. At walkingdistance.
120 locals recommend
Bimhuis
3 Piet Heinkade
120 locals recommend
The BIM house is one of the main jazz concert-places in Amsterdam. Check www.bimhuis.nl to see if there are interesting concerts. At walkingdistance.
Great place to take a beer. There are always excellent jazzbands playing live.
67 locals recommend
Jazz Cafe Alto
115 Korte Leidsedwarsstraat
67 locals recommend
Great place to take a beer. There are always excellent jazzbands playing live.
museum with old masters and Rembrandts most famous work: the nightwatch.
3186 locals recommend
Rijksmuseum
1 Museumstraat
3186 locals recommend
museum with old masters and Rembrandts most famous work: the nightwatch.
Van Gogh's paintings and setting it in context of other painters. Excellent museum!
2485 locals recommend
Van Gogh Museum
6 Museumplein
2485 locals recommend
Van Gogh's paintings and setting it in context of other painters. Excellent museum!
Excellent!
301 locals recommend
Museum Het Rembrandthuis (Rembrandt House)
4 Jodenbreestraat
301 locals recommend
Excellent!
go to the back of the Central Station and take the free Amsterdamcruise (ferry = free) and visit the museum. Good view from the terras. Our son goes to school there and crosses the IJ twice a day
1109 locals recommend
Eye Film Museum
1 IJpromenade
1109 locals recommend
go to the back of the Central Station and take the free Amsterdamcruise (ferry = free) and visit the museum. Good view from the terras. Our son goes to school there and crosses the IJ twice a day
It has a great replica of the 17th century VOC-ship Amsterdam. You can enter it and touch everything. Great for kids! (I like it as well).
820 locals recommend
Het Scheepvaartmuseum
1 Kattenburgerplein
820 locals recommend
It has a great replica of the 17th century VOC-ship Amsterdam. You can enter it and touch everything. Great for kids! (I like it as well).