Amsterdam

Pros: Easily accessible from the US and other parts of the world. A compact city!
Cons: Accommodations are expensive, but you could stay in the surrounding areas for less!

Picturesque Amsterdam, famous for its canals, culture, museums, decadent nightlife, and the list goes on! One thing is certain, Amsterdam is one of the most diverse and exciting cities on the continent.  In my opinion, what makes Amsterdam ...

Pros: Beautiful & fashionable European women... and everyone speaks English!
Cons: Frequent rain and euro conversion rate makes everything pricey.

Spent the last week in April visiting a friend (also American) in Amsterdam. Here's how it went...ARRIVING IN AMSTERDAM Flight from Detroit took about 8 hrs. Enjoyed all the movies you can watch now on long flights. They must of had ...

Pros: TunFun
Cons: The fear that your child will end up in a canal

Suppose you are going to Amsterdam mainly for business and family reasons and are bringing children ages about 18 months to 4 years old along. Some thoughts: - Don't let the "Anything Goes in Amsterdam!" hype frighten you away. Normal Dutch people ...

Pros: Beautiful scenery, water and lakes. Old and beautiful architecture, great public transportation
Cons: Boring, expensive, not too friendly and poor quality of food, poor night life

If you are looking for a Rome, a London or a Paris in Amsterdam, you obviously will be disappointed. But if you are looking for a clean, quiet and medium size city, then yes, Amsterdam is your kinda city. My overnight flight from Minneapolis arrived ...

Pros: Architecture, uniqueness, canals, Pancake Factory
Cons: dirty in spots, can be easy to get lost

I went to Amsterdam in June 2006 for 4 days. It was somewhat last minute during a vacation in Paris that we decided to rent a car and go to Amsterdam. My first suggestion (if you drive) is to NOT enter the city with the car. The city has a program ...

Pros: Beautiful, Visitor-friendly, Great Museums, Great food/drink/etc choices
Cons: Rainy fall weather

The latest general epinon about Amsterdam is a couple of years old so I thought I’d stick this one in with hopefully some worthwhile current info. WW and I just got back from a little Europe jaunt - mostly in London (and I’ll add a few ...

Pros: Beautiful city, wonderful people, great beer
Cons: I'm not there anymore

Amsterdam is a beautiful and historic city. One will almost immediately conjure images of windmills and canals. It is also a city filled with wonderful, tolerant people who enjoy good beer. As a beer geek, that is quite appealing to me. It would ...

Pros: Friendly people, an abundance of English spoken, gorgeous men
Cons: They know you're American!

Amsterdam -- the city of canals, hash, prostitution, and diamonds. Those aren't necessarily huge draws for me personally. Even so, the thought intrigued me. A friend and I took the train from Paris to Amsterdam, where we spent 4 days. We'd been ...

Pros: Just so much to go and do and see.
Cons: Makes for a mighty long review!

If you need variety in your vacation then a short stay in Amsterdam will probably fit the bill. Amsterdam is a city with many activities to choose; from blatant sex tourism to culture, from wandering down bustling busy city streets to cycling down quiet ...

Pros: Water, water, everywhere! Interesting architecture, so much to do and see, great food!
Cons: Could be cleaner, just about everyone smokes (something!).

Europe called once again! This time, we were to attend a wedding in northern Germany and, on a whim, decided to fly to Amsterdam first, to spend a few days in a city which had, up to now, eluded us. Amsterdam has managed to garner quite a reputation an ...

Pros: Nice people, good food, good beer and some wonderful history
Cons: Stoners, not antiseptically clean (which to me is a Pro)

If you're a Brit you will be aware of the hilarious Harry Enfield sketch of the two Dutch police officers. "Hallo dere! It's me Captain Stefan Van Der Haast Graacht of the Amsterdam Police again. Viz my partner - and also, I'm very happy to say, my lover ...

Pros: City is gorgeous even in October
Cons: BAD HOTEL SERVICE

I traveled a lot around Europe. I love that part of the world. My friend who recently married Dutch ...

Pros: History, museums, scenery, drunken misbehaving.
Cons: Expensive, drunken misbehaving, crowded, dirty, no green spaces, polluted canals.

I should probably be out enjoying the weather, seeing as I’ve finished the interesting piece of fiction I call my “taxes,” however, whenever I hear “Young Americans” by David Bowie, I get all introspective.

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Pros: Architecture, museums, beautiful people, music, culture...
Cons: The tourists with one thing on their mind

You only have to mention the name mention Amsterdam and people immediately think of the liberal drug laws and the coffee shops or the seedy red-light district that dates back hundreds of years. That’s what did my head in about the place in the...

Pros: short way from home, a small city with a big city feel, museums
Cons: It is a bit too small to match cities like Paris and London

We started our vacation on the 4th of June 1999. I was pretty stressed up cause I had been to a course the 2 weeks before we left. And we were also pretty late with the visa application so we only got our passports back the day before we left *phew*. But...