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Amsterdam Botel has moved
I’ve not mentioned this thing before, and I’ve not yet been aboard it, but I did think it was worth mentioning that Amsterdam’s famous Botel moved locations at the beginning of 2008. The new location sounds very interesting, although it’s now a bit more of
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Spring airfare prices to Amsterdam
I’ve been tracking Amsterdam airfares from various US cities for quite a while now and I wanted to point out that we are just about to go over the annual lip that separates the end of the cheap winter airfares from the pre-summer airfares that can be much
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Random Amsterdam photo of the moment
This is from our Amsterdam photos section, which will be hugely expanded fairly soon.
They are BIG on chess in Amsterdam (get it?). This shot was taken in the little plaza just off Leidseplein. The Hard Rock Cafe is just to the left and the entrance to t
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ATMs in Amsterdam
This became much more obvious when I was living in Amsterdam, but if you get unlucky you might notice quickly that there are actually very few automatic teller machines in the city. In most American cities, and even in many European cities, there are multi
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The cheapest Amsterdam hotels can be well located
As a cheapskate who has traveled a lot, I tend to start at the lowest cost hotel and then work my way up the price list until I find one that suits my needs. Usually this means sifting through budget hotels on hotel search engines that are in obscure subur
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Amsterdam escort services will now need to be licensed
As part of its continuing crackdown on underworld elements in its infamous The Walletjes AKA the Red Light District, Amsterdam recently gave escort services in the city 6 weeks to become licensed or risk being shut down by the city. This is another part of th
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Iceland Air to Amsterdam with a free stopover
This same deal has been going on for at least 10 years, and I’ve tried to schedule it myself quite a few times, but unfortunately it’s never worked out for me. Put simply, you can fly from a few different US cities to most of the major destinations in Euro
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Rijksmuseum won’t completely reopen until 2012, or later
Sad news this week for Amsterdam museum-goers as the city announced that the Rijksmuseum, which was most recently scheduled to reopen after a renovation in 2010, now won’t complete the massive overhaul until late 2012 or early 2013. The country’s most impr
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Shopping for Amsterdam airfare from North America
You may remember not long ago when I mentioned an interesting article on BootsnAll.com that tested 7 major airfare sites to see which one was the cheapest. The results of those trials were a bit surprising, but that was just the first in a 4-part series th
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Hemp Hotel in Amsterdam
Hemp Hotel in Amsterdam
by , which probably won some kind of web design award in 1996 or so.
To deepen the mystery, I must have passed by this place many dozens of times without even realizing it when I was living overlooking the Albert Cuyp Street Market, not far from the Heineken Brewe
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Amsterdam ArenA and how to get there
With a capacity of over 50,000 for games and certain events, the Amsterdam ArenA is by far the largest venue of its kind in the area. It hosts the home games of AFC Ajax (pronounced EYE-ax), which is the legendary and often successful club football team ba
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Amsterdam is friendly with good nightlife and parks, according to new survey
The results of a new Trip Advisor survey of over 1,100 travelers give Amsterdam high marks in at least three categories comparing major European cities. Amsterdam ranked second only to Dublin in the Friendly Locals category, second to only London in the Be
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Tipping and service in Amsterdam
If you are from Europe these will all be things you are well aware of, but for North Americans visiting Amsterdam for the first time, especially if you haven’t traveled extensively elsewhere in Europe, the topics of tipping and service are interesting. The
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Amsterdam somehow isn’t one of the 12 places to see really good-looking locals
BootsnAll recently published one of those “list stories” called 12 places to see really good-looking locals, and Amsterdam seems to be a glaring omission. The article is fairly interesting and most of the photos are nice, but you still have to wonder how a
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Free Amsterdam travel guide
Researching a city online is really valuable and can be very inspiring, but once you get to the destination it really helps to have something physical to hold in your hands. I’m a big guidebook nerd and I love Lonely Planet guides and especially Rick Steve
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Vondelpark – Amsterdam’s central park
By far Amsterdam’s largest and most famous park, Vondelpark is often compared to New York City’s Central Park. The size and shape are very similar between the two, but Vondelpark isn’t particularly central, although the location is still quite handy for mo
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Late spring airfare to Amsterdam
If you are planning an Amsterdam trip coming up soon and you haven’t yet booked your ticket this could be a tricky time to get a cheap flight to Amsterdam. I used to live in Amsterdam, but now I live in Portland, Oregon and I go back and forth doing resear
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Money-saving tips for Europe in 2008
Over at BootsnAll they’ve just published an article full of money-saving tips for Europe travel, which should come in especially handy for Americans since our currency keeps edging toward being worthless against the now-mighty euro. When the euro debuted a
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WhyGo Amsterdam now has maps
After a certain amount of foot-dragging on my part I’ve finally started adding maps to Amsterdamlogue. Many of the individual attractions posts have maps at the bottom now, and soon they all will, but the best place to start is probably the main Amsterdam
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Melkweg Club in Amsterdam
Melkweg Club
by is mostly in Dutch, although they do have an informative English language page that explains some of the details, but no listings. If you click on the Events tab you’ll see what’s coming up in the next week, but it’s still quite confusing unless you can read Dutch. Fortun
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