Partners in Travel info@partnersintravel.nl
Web Site: Partners in Travel. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Organizes tours and excursions and especially for events
Amsterdam Events Company info@amsterdamevents.nl
Web Site: Amsterdam Events Company
Services: Specializes in tours of Amsterdam during special events.
Fietsen Netherlands
Services: tours, bike paths and routes
Cycletours cycletoursholland@cycletours.nl
Website: Cycletours Amsterdam, Holland and Belgium
Services: Offers reservations for boat tours and bike trips for hotel in town in the gold circle in the south of Holland, and among the tulips.
Amsterdam City Discovery
Web Site: Amsterdam City Discovery
Services: Serves Canal tours, and excursions on foot in the city.
ITB Holland sales@itbholland.com
Website: ITB Holland
Services: Offers tours, hotel reservations, events, restaurants.
Lindbergh info@lindbergh.nl
Website: Incoming Travel Agency Lindbergh
Services: In affiliation with museums and attractions, providing a comprehensive program at discount prices.
Local agencies, sometimes in collaboration with private transport, organize various kinds of excursions in Amsterdam : you can visit the city by day or night, on foot, by bus or boat through the Canal Bus in style “Jazz” or “Pizza Cruise.” Another tour boat has the goal of visiting Dutch villages and landscapes on the river IJsselmeer. Before returning to Amsterdam is expected to stop Muiden where you can visit the castle Muiderslot.
Basically most of the tours include or are limited to a boat trip along the canals offering a wide panoramic tour, is the best way to explore Amsterdam and be fascinated of its historical center rich elegant merchant houses with beautiful facades of the ‘600 and ‘700, churches, shops and warehouses dating back to the same century.
Centraal Station isd the starting point of any tour, as is also the point of arrival from all over the world. Central Station (1889) was built in Gothic style by architect Petrus Cuypers .
Behind the station is the island port of Amsterdam and the boat that connects downtown to the north of the city, across the Ij, an old loop of the Zuiderzee.
A barge reserved for pedestrians, (Veerboot) provides a free link between North Station and Amsterdam. The Station Square (Stationsplein) is very busy because it is the terminus of the tram, bus and boat-museum.
Organised city tours
If you want to visit Amsterdam, you may go in a organised city tour, it is cheaper to visit everything yourself. The operators offer tours, visits to diamond factories, other guided visits, and canal cruises.
The Heineken Experience.
Former Heineken Brewery , Stadhouderskade 78 . A must visit experience for young and old people. Open from monday until Sunday from 11.00 ‘o clock until 19.00 ‘o clock. Entrance closes at 17.30 ‘o clock.
Amsterdam City Tours
You can visit Amsterdam by using the bus, bike, boat, and walking tours through some of the most fascinating places in Amsterdam and Holland.
Amsterdam City Guide
Is Amsterdam City Guide with touristic articles, attractions, tips, tours services, concert tickets and accommodation. Customized Amsterdam maps are available as well and answers to most touristic questions.
New Amsterdam Tours
New Amsterdam Tours offers a free three-hour guided tour of the major Amsterdam sites and history twice a day at 11:00AM and 1:00PM and once a day in Spanish at 11:00AM.
You can meet in front of the tourist information office across from Amsterdam Central Station, near the tour guide in a red “Free Tour” shirt. The company also offers a two-hour guided tour through the Red Light District at 6:45PM that meets at the same location for €10 per person (€8 for students).
In Amsterdam, a major tourist attraction is De Wallen, the red-light district in Amsterdam.
De Wallen is located in the oldest part of Amsterdam, covering several blocks south of the church Oude Kerk, approximately 6500 square meters.
De Wallen, the red light district has existed since the 14th century and formerly contained many distilleries, mainly catering to sailors. The name Wallen (walls) refers to the medieval retaining dam walls in the old center of Amsterdam.
The red light district is a major tourist attraction, and each year, millions of visitors come to Amsterdam because they want to see this vibrant and exciting part named De Wallen.
In this part of Amsterdam we can see and visit theaters, restaurants, bars, coffee shop, museums, and of course the famous 200 windows with sexy girls, dressed in eye-popping underwear. This window-shopping, performed by both sexes is a favorite activity in the Red Light District.
The Red Light Districtit is much more then just a tourist attraction, although there is a lot of adult entertainment.
In the Wallen we can find 300-year-old gabled buildings and expensive real estate houses doctors, lawyers and plenty of families.
In this part of Amsterdam we can find a tolerant community where freedom is highly valued.
In Amsterdam, most of the people use a bicycle to travel in the city, because most of the streets have bike paths and bike racks. Driving a car, in the city center is complicated by constant traffic jams and limited and expensive parking space.
If you wnat to use public transportation in Amsterdam you may choose one of this way to get around: the national train, the tram (they have 16 tram lines), you can take one of the many bus lines (local, regional and national) or the metro lines and also you can choose several ferries across the IJ (free of charge).
Amsterdam is also a major transportation hub. Highways from all parts of the Netherlands lead to it. The Ring highway encircles the city.
If you want to get to un airport, you can go to Schiphol. It’s the biggest airport in the Netherlands, and the fourth largest in Europe. It handles about 40 million passengers. It’s economically vital to Amsterdam and the Netherlands.