Step 2 : Amsterdam neighbourhood
May 20th, 2016, 01:50 PM
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Step 2 : Amsterdam neighbourhood
Hello.
If you are following along on this journey....I would like to find a safe (goes without saying I guess) place for a few days...budget is about 200 US up to 250. I try to stay in neighbourhoods that have a bit of night life - restaurants and cafes. I like to walk so some place central so I can do most of my sightseeing by foot. Much appreciated.
If you are following along on this journey....I would like to find a safe (goes without saying I guess) place for a few days...budget is about 200 US up to 250. I try to stay in neighbourhoods that have a bit of night life - restaurants and cafes. I like to walk so some place central so I can do most of my sightseeing by foot. Much appreciated.
May 20th, 2016, 02:53 PM
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<i>Step 2 : Amsterdam neighbourhood
Posted by: kelsey22 on May 20, 16 at 5:50pm
If you are following along on this journey....I would like to find a safe (goes without saying I guess) place for a few days.</i>
How do you define "safe place?"
Posted by: kelsey22 on May 20, 16 at 5:50pm
If you are following along on this journey....I would like to find a safe (goes without saying I guess) place for a few days.</i>
How do you define "safe place?"
May 20th, 2016, 05:33 PM
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<i>kelsey22 on May 20, 16 at 8:46pm
@Happy Trvlr - thanks - I will look around that area.
@spaarne - walk around at night, solo traveller has close access to cafes and restaurants late at night</i>
You can walk around all night throughout central Amsterdam. I second HappyTrvlr for the Herengracht. You might find a room in your price range at the Ambassade, a one-of-a-kind hotel. A few blocks away is my favorite night life area, het Spui. It is mainly locals and gets going when the offices close. My cafe is the Hoppe. The Cafe Luxembourg has a nice lunch and a tight patio for people watching. Spuistraat has a number of restaurants. Try the Luden, or the famous Five Flies. Tourists are over on the Leidseplein and Rembrandtplein day and night.
@Happy Trvlr - thanks - I will look around that area.
@spaarne - walk around at night, solo traveller has close access to cafes and restaurants late at night</i>
You can walk around all night throughout central Amsterdam. I second HappyTrvlr for the Herengracht. You might find a room in your price range at the Ambassade, a one-of-a-kind hotel. A few blocks away is my favorite night life area, het Spui. It is mainly locals and gets going when the offices close. My cafe is the Hoppe. The Cafe Luxembourg has a nice lunch and a tight patio for people watching. Spuistraat has a number of restaurants. Try the Luden, or the famous Five Flies. Tourists are over on the Leidseplein and Rembrandtplein day and night.
May 21st, 2016, 10:08 PM
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The canal ring is kind of dead at night apart from the wandering, drunk crowds, but yes, safe to walk around at night, everywhere.
Spui is not "a night life area", but where the tourists go, nowadays, because they have heard it is a "night life area". (and consider it off the beaten path)
Nes, and its surroundings is much more local, much more "night life".
If I had to choose where to go, I'd choose the Pijp area. And Noord is the emerging area now, and becoming pretty exciting.
Again, I point to Pension Homeland.
http://pensionhomeland.com/
And there is:
https://www.bedandbreakfast.nl/bed-a...lands/c2759794
for instance, you can have your own ship, at KNSM island.
https://www.bedandbreakfast.nl/bed-a...-fietsen/4408/
Spui is not "a night life area", but where the tourists go, nowadays, because they have heard it is a "night life area". (and consider it off the beaten path)
Nes, and its surroundings is much more local, much more "night life".
If I had to choose where to go, I'd choose the Pijp area. And Noord is the emerging area now, and becoming pretty exciting.
Again, I point to Pension Homeland.
http://pensionhomeland.com/
And there is:
https://www.bedandbreakfast.nl/bed-a...lands/c2759794
for instance, you can have your own ship, at KNSM island.
https://www.bedandbreakfast.nl/bed-a...-fietsen/4408/
May 22nd, 2016, 01:37 AM
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We just came back from Amsterdam and stayed on the border of the Museum Quarter and the Pijp neighborhood. We loved the Pijp area. Lots of people walking around, lots of pubs and restaurants and good transportation links. We always prefer more residential areas rather than the tourist centers. If you want to get to the touristy areas, it's a short tram ride (there are night trams too).
May 22nd, 2016, 04:23 AM
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De Pijp is great.
However, the more west you go, so away from the Museum Quarter, the more rundown it becomes.
Be careful renting apartments through AirBnB. A good deal of property in De Pijp is rent controlled. The City is doing a crackdown on people who sublet their rent controlled apartments.
http://insideairbnb.com/amsterdam/in...iListings=true
bedandbreakfast.nl is a good site of registered B&Bs and legal lets
However, the more west you go, so away from the Museum Quarter, the more rundown it becomes.
Be careful renting apartments through AirBnB. A good deal of property in De Pijp is rent controlled. The City is doing a crackdown on people who sublet their rent controlled apartments.
http://insideairbnb.com/amsterdam/in...iListings=true
bedandbreakfast.nl is a good site of registered B&Bs and legal lets
May 22nd, 2016, 04:41 AM
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<i>menachem on May 22, 16 at 2:08am
The canal ring is kind of dead at night apart from the wandering, drunk crowds, but yes, safe to walk around at night, everywhere. </i>
Our Rotterdam friend seems to have Amsterdam confused with Stockholm. Drunk crowds are common in Stockholm but where did you see them in Amsterdam? If any they were probably some Brits boys on a stag binge weekend at the Leidseplein.
The canal ring is kind of dead at night apart from the wandering, drunk crowds, but yes, safe to walk around at night, everywhere. </i>
Our Rotterdam friend seems to have Amsterdam confused with Stockholm. Drunk crowds are common in Stockholm but where did you see them in Amsterdam? If any they were probably some Brits boys on a stag binge weekend at the Leidseplein.
