Hotels in De Pijp, Amsterdam

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 housing and spent a century as a working-class and immigrant district. It is now the part of Amsterdam where locals go out to eat, which is a different proposition from the centre: you book a table rather than queue, and the menu is not in four languages.

You are outside the canal ring here, and that is the deal. Rooms cost less, the streets are ordinary, and you take a tram or walk twenty-five minutes to reach the Dam. What you get is a neighbourhood that carries on when the day trippers have gone home.

Accommodation in this district	42 properties
Booking.com district	De Pijp
Walk to the Rijksmuseum	10 to 15 minutes
Walk to the Dam	25 to 30 minutes
Best for	Food, longer stays, better value than the centre
Less good for	Anyone who wants to walk everywhere in the old city

Three hotels that show what De Pijp is

Two of these buildings were something else entirely, which is typical of the district.

Hotel Okura Amsterdam

Ferdinand Bolstraat 333
Opened in September 1971 as the Okura chain’s first hotel in Europe. The tower is 78 metres and 23 floors, designed by Bernard Bijvoet and Gerard Holt with Yoshiro Taniguchi and Yozo Shibata. It stands on the Amstelkanaal at the southern edge of the district.

Sir Albert Hotel

Albert Cuypstraat 2–6
Built by the van Kampfraath family, who split the building between a diamond-cutting factory and their own home. It later ran as a diamond factory under the van Moppes family.

Bicycle Hotel Amsterdam

Van Ostadestraat 123
A small hotel with solar panels on a planted roof, which is about as De Pijp as a building gets.

How much choice you have

42 properties across a district that runs from the Stadhouderskade in the north to the Amstelkanaal in the south. The northern end near the Albert Cuypstraat puts you ten minutes from the Rijksmuseum; the southern end near the Okura is quieter and further out.

Compare what is available: all 42 places to stay in De Pijp.

Getting around from here

• Metro 52 stops at De Pijp and reaches Central Station in six minutes. This is the fastest connection any Amsterdam district has to the station.
• Tram 24 runs up the Ferdinand Bolstraat to the centre.
• The Rijksmuseum and the Heineken Experience are both a ten to fifteen minute walk north.
• Schiphol is straightforward: metro 52 to Zuid, then the train.

What is around you

The Albert Cuyp market runs six days a week and is on our markets page. The Museumplein is a fifteen-minute walk, and the metro 52 page explains why this district got so much easier to reach.

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