Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ways to go to Amsterdam:
Tips (especially for US Folks): It is faster to just buy a ticket via machine. But your credit card needs to be a chip card and you need to know your PIN.
Just 10 minute walk is the Inntel Hotel and may cost around 130 Euros for the room. It is a decent room and just a minute from the main shopping area.
Address: Nieuwezijds Kolk 19, 1012 PV Amsterdam, Netherlands
April –Keukenhof: If you love tulips, this is the best time for you to go and see the tulips in full bloom. They have an entire area and farm with tulips.
Orange Day (King's day) - April 27 (26 if 27th falls on a Sunday)
1) Van Kerkwijk - No menu lunch (map here). Quite close to Madam Tussauds
2) Westerkerk where rembrandt was buried - next to Amsterdam's Jordaan district, on the bank of the Prinsengracht canal.
- From Schipol Airport
- you can take an intercity direct train Amsterdam Centraal which takes around 20 minutes and cost around 5 euros.
- By Boat
- There’s a boat (Stena Line) which goes to Hoek van Holland Haven (a stop before Hoek van Holland Strand). And you take a train for 1.5 hours to Amsterdam Central (with an interchange in Schiedan Centrum)
- By Train
- Eurostar or Eurorail, which stops at Amsterdam Centraal
Tips (especially for US Folks): It is faster to just buy a ticket via machine. But your credit card needs to be a chip card and you need to know your PIN.
The Amsterdam Centraal Station
Museum Plein
This entire area has most of the museums from the Rijk Museum, which stores Rembrandt’s paintings to Van Gogh and Modern Arts Museum. Going around?You can take a GVB Day ticket which costs around 7.50 (a single ride costs around 2.80). Otherwise, Hop-on and Hop-off buses or water buses (19 Euros). The water buses might be better so that you can really get the full experience of Amsterdam (as of April 2015).
the Rijk Museum
Place to Eat
Openbare Bibliotheek
Just near the Amsterdam Centraal Station, when you go out of the station, look towards your left, it is right near the floating Chinese Restaurant. It is a public library and actually has a nice restaurant on the 7th floor (La Place) where you can grab something food and you have a good view of Amsterdam.Place to Stay
Inntel Hotel
Just 10 minute walk is the Inntel Hotel and may cost around 130 Euros for the room. It is a decent room and just a minute from the main shopping area.
Address: Nieuwezijds Kolk 19, 1012 PV Amsterdam, Netherlands
Interesting Events:
April –Keukenhof: If you love tulips, this is the best time for you to go and see the tulips in full bloom. They have an entire area and farm with tulips.
Orange Day (King's day) - April 27 (26 if 27th falls on a Sunday)
Things to do next time:
1) Van Kerkwijk - No menu lunch (map here). Quite close to Madam Tussauds
2) Westerkerk where rembrandt was buried - next to Amsterdam's Jordaan district, on the bank of the Prinsengracht canal.
How the boat/cruise ship looks like?
They have a cinema, a viewing deck, lounges, restaurant, and a small arcade.
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