Cheap Amsterdam http://www.amsterdam-guide.org Cheap flights, cheap accommodation, cheap food and shooping in Amsterdam Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:17:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Amsterdam Travel Agencies http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/dutch-travel-agencies http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/dutch-travel-agencies#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:16:39 +0000 admin http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/?p=73 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.

]]> http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/dutch-travel-agencies/feed Boat Tours in Amsterdam http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/boat-tours-in-amsterdam http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/boat-tours-in-amsterdam#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:04:52 +0000 admin http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/?p=71 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.

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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.

]]> http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/amsterdam-centraal-station/feed Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/amsterdam-van-gogh-museum http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/amsterdam-van-gogh-museum#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:25:59 +0000 admin http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/?p=64 Van Gogh Museum is the famous museum in Amsterdam dedicated to the work of the great Dutch artist Van Gogh.
To avoid queues, you should visit in the morning, perhaps after the opening, especially in summer.

Located in the so-called Paulus Potterstraat 7 in the Museum Quarter, is housed in a building situated near the Museumplein, a square surrounded by greenery and around which overlook other three famous institutions: the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk Museum and Hall of the Royal Concertgebow. The building was opened in 1973 to collect the works of the master, 10 years before they began the first construction project on Gerrit Rietveld which participated actively nephew Vincent Willem van Gogh as an engineer.

Towards the end of the 90 ‘was built a further extension of the museum designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, funded through a generous donation of a Japanese company. Outside shows the typical geometry typical of many construction de Stijl and spread over four levels which are ordered strictly the various sections that compose it.

Every year not less than one million tourists come to admire the complete and spectacular collection: more than 250 paintings and 500 drawings and watercolors, including 4 of 13 large canvases (50×100 cm.)

The museum includes a library, a reading room where you can consult freely art books about the artist and his contemporaries

]]> http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/amsterdam-van-gogh-museum/feed Amsterdam - the city of bicycles http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/amsterdam-the-city-of-bicycles http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/amsterdam-the-city-of-bicycles#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:02:23 +0000 admin http://www.amsterdam-guide.org/?p=61 No city like Amsterdam can boast of being the world capital of cycling. Bicycle lanes have appeared here about 50 years earlier than many other cities.The bike is the ideal way to move anywhere, often the fastest. In the 60s of last century, a movement called the Provos extolled the environmental benefits and logistics of this means of locomotion by providing all the hundreds of white-to-use bike and left in place,

Since 2005 there is a special map, prepared by the municipality of Amsterdam, for the use of bicycles in the city and its surroundings. The places open and passable in security and speed are shown in green. The sites a bit ‘less safe are indicated in pink.

Some years ago there were over 400,000 bike for about 724,000 inhabitants. With its miles of canals crossed by bridges, its flat configuration, cycle paths well-plotted and well-regulated movement, the city lends itself beautifully to this means of transport.

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Amsterdam

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Café l’Opera, Rembrandtplein

A friendly spot for coffee, a beer, or something stronger. You may at first only notice the outside seating and the enclosed terrace, but there is also an elegant, (usually) quieter indoor area.

Café Belgique, Gravenstraat

Easily one of the smallest bars in Amsterdam, there is seating for at most 15 people, but if you can get in you will enjoy it thoroughly.

Café Cuba.

Great bar, really nice atmosphere, close to red light with a nice terrace in the summer. Good selection of cheap cocktails, best long island ice teas in the world.

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Amsterdam Erotic Museum represents an artistic view over erotics, which makes the “Red Light District” so special. Five floors of erotic enjoyment and arts.

A view with unique postcard, photos and more then 500 erotic books. A special fairytale corner with erotic videos will give you a look at the funny side of erotics.

A collection of erotic arts from all over the world and way back in history till this futuristic century.Paintings and other artforms from old masters and modern time artits giver the exhibition aview over the erotic arts.

It will surprise you. The erotic museum is a cultural must in your program to visit the “Red Light District” .

Erotic Museum Amsterdam
O.Z. Achterburgwal 54
1012 DP Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 620 06 30

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Artis Zoo

If you buy a ticket to Arsis you can visit the Planetarium, the Aquarium, the Zoological Museum and the Geological Museum. Artis is also a botanical garden, with plants and trees gathered from all over the world, just like the animal species.

Hortus Botanicus
This is the Botanical Garden of the University of Amsterdam. You can vist this garden: Monday to Friday 9AM to 5PM, Saturday and Sunday 10AM to 5PM, open until 11PM in July and August, admission € 6.

Parks in Amsterdam

Vondelpark

This beautiful park is located in the older part of the city. Especially in the summer it’s lively and crowded. A lovely place to hang out and if you chose to try magic mushrooms, do them here.

Museumplein

This is a large grassed open space. Around its edges are the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, the Concertgebouw, and the temporarily closed Stedelijk Museum.

Westerpark
Newly expanded park, at the western edge of the centre, with cultural activities in a former gas factory. Access from Haarlemmerweg.

Amsterdamse Bos
Amsterdamse Bos is a much larger forest-type park on the outskirts of the city. Access from Amstelveenseweg. Horse rental, canoe rental and an open air theatre are part of the attractions.

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