What to do in Amsterdam for six days?

Question

What to do in Amsterdam for six days?

Answer 1

There is a lot to do and see in Amsterdam.

I would recommend taking a canal boat cruise on one of your first days to get the lay of the land and it is a simple way to immerse yourself in the beauty of Amsterdam while you are still suffering from jet lag.  

There is an Amsterdam tourist office at central station.  The people there were fantastic.  I told them what I was interested in seeing, and they gave me the best deal for my euro.  I would recommend utilizing them to help plan your trip once you arrive.

My favorite things that I saw were the Anne Franke House, The Van Gogh Museum, and the Rembrandt house.  The Rijksmuseum was also very nice, but Van Gogh is my favorite artist.  The Stedelijk Museum  was a waste of time.

Answer 2

Smoke hash cigarettes

Go window shopping for prostitutes

Get totally wasted on Heineken beer

Check out the Little Mermaid statue (oops! see below)

Go biking on the beautiful trails

Take a trip on one of those flat- boat gondolas

Forget about the Little  Mermaid. That's in Copenhagen. I musta been smoking too much hash.

Sure I was in Amsterdam, backpacking across Europe. I stayed in the youth hostel located along one of the canals. The Melkweg was a real trip. There was some cat at a table selling all kinda hash, with people gathered around. I bought my hash at one of them coffee shops though and shared a cigarette with the owner. Amsterdam is really cool. Just arrive, hit the streets and make your own discoveries.

Answer 3

You can take your time, roam the city.

See the differences in the different parts of town.

There are more museums than you can even visit in six days, here is a link with the more known once, with explanations and links in English:

http://www.amsterdam.info/museums/

But there are more, the whole of the Netherlands has more than 1500 museums, all of which are within reach from Amsterdam, even on a daytrip.

The most famous (often named here) museums are the Rijksmuseum, (has been part closed for restoration and refurbishing for a few years now and will be for a few years to come,) van Gogh museum, Anne Frank house, (only go if you really want to go, as for people who have not read the book it is a bit of a disappointment.)

But there are more, from glasses and handbags to art from the classic world.

If there is any thing you want to see a museum about (your own hobby for instance) just enter that, hobby and Netherlands or nl into google. I found that the way to most of the museums in the country.

If you like daytrips out of town, you can go with one of the tour companies or you can take the local trains and buses.

De Zaanse schans, a little north from Amsterdam, is often mentioned as a tour, but the last I heard the price of the tour was several times that what traveling by public transport and paying your own entry would cost.

http://www.zaanseschans.nl/

At this time there is a ferry connection between the station and the park, adding an other 10 minutes to the walk, but nice in itself. I have been there only a few weeks back.

By train it is about 20 minutes from Amsterdam.

There are tours that are so much easier than traveling under your own steam that the extra cost will be worth it, if you want to see the villages of Edam, Volendam and Marken in one day, you will see a lot of slow local buses with eratic timetables. With a tour it is all cut and pasted together.

Other daytrips, good by public transport are:

Zuiderzee museum, (open air museum about the area round the IJselmeer,) in Enkhuizen.

Openlucht museum Arnhem, (the national Openair museum,)

Den Haag (the Hague,) Rotterdam, Haarlem, Delft, Alkmaar, Utrecht, all other towns in the Netherlands, worth a visit, most traditional Dutch walled towns in the past. Rotterdam is different in that is has been completely rebuild after WWII, and the Hague in that it has never been walled.

Zandvoort for the beach, and there is more like that too.

More info on the site I already linked to:

http://www.amsterdam.info/

Answer 4

You could go to church and then smoke some beer and drink some.............NO.

It's better if you go to church OK? Make it to mass.

Promise momma now!

Answer 5

It would depend on what you like.

You can disregard Ozz btw - he`s never been to Amsterdam ;)

There are a lot of museums, a lot of buildings to see if you like architecture. A visit to one of the squares would be nice, to do some relaxed people watching.

As Willeke suggested - there are plenty of options to visit towns and cities , as the longest travel time by train will most likely be around 2 hours one way.

If you can specify what you and your party like to do, we could give some more specific info.