Convenient for Centraal Station, the docklands and hops across to Noord, this a good bet if you're looking for good, clean accommodation with the odd frill,...
NDSM Werf Pier 3
Opened in 2011, Amsterdam Tattoo Museum takes visitors on a typically risqué tour of ink-based body art. As well as extensive galleries of work by revered...
Plantage Middenlaan 62Once you check in to this grand hotel in a former bank building, everything is yours to choose. Drinks and snacks in the lounge, films and mini-bar in your...
Herengracht 519-525
This beach place is great even when the weather sucks (thanks to the open fire, perhaps). It's not a club as such, more a restaurant/bar, but it does pull...
Bert Haanstrakade 2004
Officially this 'shop' is an opticians' museum, but don't let that put you off. The fascinating exhibits are of glasses through the ages, and most of the...
Gasthuismolensteeg 7
The famous tasting house at the base of the Gooyer windmill, where wares from award-winning local brewery 't IJ can be sampled. Inside is bare (still...
Funenkade 7If you want to exercise your brain as well as your elbow, head for this chess, bridge and darts café. Willing playmates are always to hand and there are...
Laurierstraat 76The College, occupying two floors of a 17th-century listed monument in the Red Light District, provides the public with an impressive array of information...
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 124Welcome to the future of hotels: the shipping container at CitizenM. Due to the housing shortage in Amsterdam, local students have long been living in these...
Schiphol AirportThis old film theatre bursts into life on Wednesday nights for a live national radio and TV show. Each broadcast throws up a diverse line-up - one week it's...
Studio Desmet, Plantage Middenlaan 4A
A variety of rubbers of the non-erasing kind to wrap up trouser snakes of all shapes and sizes in a store that's equal parts amusing and inspiring.
Warmoesstraat 141Conscious Dreams was the original proponent of the smart drugs wave in Amsterdam. The staff here really know their stuff - the owner worked as a drugs...
Kerkstraat 119Amsterdam's home of rockabilly and swing has had a rough time since the city confiscated its land and moved the club into temporary accommodation. Despite...
Zuiderzeeweg 29
A new member of the legendary Dampkring family, this delightful emporium has everything needed to set up a grow centre at home: from hydroponics and organic...
Prins Hendrikkade 10-11The Amsterdam Steambrewery Company has been making beer onsite for five years (though the building's history stretches back to the Middle Ages, when it was...
Kloveniersburgwal 6-8