Oud-West is the district just beyond the Vondelpark and the Jordaan: 59 places to stay, a converted tram depot full of food stalls, and rooms that cost noticeably less than the same rooms on the canal ring twenty minutes away. Who this area suits This is where Amsterdam expanded at […]
De Pijp is where Amsterdam eats. Forty-two places to stay around the Albert Cuyp market, fifteen minutes by tram from the centre, in the district with the highest concentration of restaurants and neighbourhood cafés in the city. Who this area suits De Pijp was built in the 1870s as cheap […]
The Museum Quarter is the calmest central district in Amsterdam: 59 places to stay on wide nineteenth-century streets, with the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum and the Vondelpark all within a few minutes on foot. Who this area suits This part of the city was laid out in the late […]
The Red Light District has 43 places to stay, and almost all of them are small and budget. It is the most central district in Amsterdam and the one most people are wrong about in both directions: quieter by day than they expect, louder at night than they hoped. Who […]
The Jordaan is the neighbourhood people picture when they imagine living in Amsterdam: narrow streets, small canals, courtyard gardens and no attractions to speak of. There are forty places to stay in it, almost all of them small. Who this area suits The Jordaan was built in the seventeenth century […]
The Nine Streets are nine short lanes between the Singel and the Prinsengracht, and they hold only twenty places to stay. That scarcity is the whole story: this is the best-located square kilometre in Amsterdam and there is almost nothing available in it. Who this area suits You are in […]
The old centre is where Amsterdam started and where most of its hotel rooms still are: 206 properties around Dam Square, the Kalverstraat and the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal. It is the most convenient part of the city to sleep in, and the least peaceful. Who this area suits If you are […]
Sleeping on the canal belt means waking up on the Herengracht, Keizersgracht or Prinsengracht — the seventeenth-century ring that is the reason most people come to Amsterdam. There are 139 places to stay inside it, many of them in the canal houses themselves, and almost everything in the centre is […]
