Amsterdam

Pros: Little time, but the train from the airport leaves you right in the middle of the city. A sense of adventure.
Cons: Somewhat risky--make sure you don't miss your train back to the airport

When you fly to your European destination, chances are you'll fly through one of three major rerouting cities--London, Amsterdam, or Frankfurt. If you do, your layover may range from 1/2 hour to a few hours. What do you do while you wait for your...

Pros: Tremendous Value
Cons: Poorly advertised

We recently spent a delightful few days in Amsterdam on a City break holiday. Even though it was October, the weather was wet and cold, we filled our time with a variety of activities. We had no problems booking our flights and found a beautiful hotel...

Pros: beautiful city, great museums, interesting culture, good food
Cons: expensive food, confusing to get around

I went to Amsterdam during February for reading week from university in London. My friend Jesse and I took the overnight bus using www.gobycoach.com since we had started our planning too late and flying was a bit too expensive. However, when we got to...

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: 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: 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: 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: Much to see but easy to tour by canal boat and has a pleasant ambience.
Cons: Suffers from an undeserved sin city reputation.

A city of canals, museums, restaurants and a cool attitude, Amsterdam is the best of the European canal cities. Although it is doesn't have Venice's reputation for romance, or the glitter of Russia's St. Petersburg, it has a healthy character of its own...

Pros: Great architecture, canals, cobble-stoned streets, relaxed atmosphere
Cons: pushy drug dealers and beggars

My two traveling companions and I arrived in Amsterdam on a summer evening in the midst of a torrential downpour. We had driven from Antwerp in Belgium, via Rotterdam, Den Hague, and Haarlem. We planned on having a night on the town, so instead of...

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...

Pros: an amusing social study and test of one's facultys.
Cons: some of the coffeeshops are very seedy, no pun intended.

One of Holland's most apologized for attractions (the other one being prostitution) is the selection of coffeeshops.

Some coffeshops have better coffee than others. Most of them sell hashish and marijuana as well as coffee. Some have food;...

Pros: Gorgeous architecture, charming canals, and a rockin' Tea at the Amstel.
Cons: Be sure to take your vitamins before braving the nightlife!

I have just returned from a three-week stay in Europe, which was based in the Netherlands (my friend "Emma" lives in Rotterdam). To be honest, I only spent a total of 12 hours in Amsterdam itself, but trust me when I say I have experienced...

Pros: Friendly people, small town feel in a big city.
Cons: Dog poop everywhere

I travel to Netherlands once a year, or so, on vacation, sometimes going to France and/or the U.K. as well. Some suggestions I have for people going there are;
1) Use the public transportation. The lower level of Schiopol airport is the train...

Pros: Great city with lots to do; very helpful people and efficient police force
Cons: Quite a few drug-related crimes

Review Topic:  Practical Information


Having lived about 30 kilometers from Amsterdam for over four years, the red light district no longer has that magic appeal that it does for tourists. We would often, quite innocently,...

Pros: A true and Honest-to-God learning experience. A completely poignant experience.
Cons: Crowded, and I found it difficult to completely absorb some of the exhibits; when the place was built, it wasn't built with the intention of being a museum.

Review Topic:  Sights & Attractions

Like most other kids, I read Anne Frank's diary. As a child, I couldn't understand why she had to hide in her house from the police when she had done nothing wrong; as an adult who knows...