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~ George McDonald (Author) "Easygoing, liberal Amsterdam has never entirely shed its reputation as a hippie haven, even with an economy that has moved far beyond this cliche..." (more)
Key Phrases: holidays from noon, canal belt, floating flower market, Centraal Station, The Hague, Red Light District (more...)
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* An unbeatable guide to the Netherlands' largest city, which receives an estimated 10 million visitors annually
* Clearly outperforms the competition, Fodor's Citypack (which is 200 pages shorter) and the Lonely Planet guide (100 pages shorter)
* Pinpoints the best bets in Amsterdam dining, accommodations, and nightlife
* Offers discerning coverage of cultural attractions, including the city's many museums, galleries, concert halls, and monuments
* Features a giant fold-out map, Dutch vocabulary list, and recommended city strolls and bike rides


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Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. And avoid tourist traps. At Frommer’s, we use 150 outspoken travel experts around the world to help you make the right choices. Frommer’s. Your guide to a world of travel experience.

Choose the Only Guide That Gives You:

  • Outspoken opinions on what’s worth your time and what’s not.
  • Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip no matter what your budget.
  • Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.
  • The best hotels and restaurants in every price range, with candid reviews.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Frommers; 1 edition (February 3, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0764567373
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764567377
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,206,660 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A real disappointment., November 10, 1998
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I bought this book for my first trip to Amsterdam. The basic info is sound but there were some problems. The most annoying is that key parts of maps end up in the middle (binding) making them difficult to read. The restaurant reviews were in inaccurate and left the reader wondering whether anyone from Frommers had been in the restaurant. In summary the book is OK but there are better ones on the market.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not up to Frommer's usual quality, July 20, 2005
We travel a lot and always get a Frommer's Guide the first time we visit a new place. In general these guides are full of useful information, accurate maps and excellent sight-seeing suggestions and lists of restaurants. We have found this to be true of the Frommer's Guides to France, Provence, Germany, London, Spain and Norway.

This Amsterdam guide did not live up to our expectations. It's not that the book is "terrible", but we consistently found inaccuracies and, as others have said here, were often left wondering if the author George McDonald actually ate at the restaurants he recommends. One could reasonably suspect that the appearance of some of these restaurants' names in the guide were paid endorsements. (A particular recommendation for Indonesian food, which one can find in abundance in Amsterdam, was especially suspicious, as it was overpriced and nowhere near the quality of other restaurants we visited).

We always like to walk when visiting a city, and this Amsterdam Guide contains several long walking tours. We tried almost all of them, and invariably gave up and headed in our own direction. The maps provided with the walking tours had inaccuracies serious enough to really throw us off (street names off by an entire block), and included ridiculous "points of interest" -- in one case he sends you off to see the site of a historic orphanage, when in fact the orphanage is gone and now replaced by the new Ballet house, an unattractive steel and glass monstrosity. He even goes so far as to explain that the orphanage "used" to stand there. What's the point? Does Mr. McDonald really not think that Amsterdam has enough existing points-of-interest that he has to send us off to the ones that aren't there anymore?

Further, the tear-out folding map that comes with the book contains little more than street names -- there are inexplicably no references to points-of-interest mentioned in the book, or even major landmarks.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A good, basic travel guide, November 1, 2002
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I just took this book to Amsterdam. I found it to be very helpful. The books features maps dedicated to a single subject (such as a restaurant map, a hotel map, etc.). We used these extensively. The Frommer's Irreverent Guides have more candid and entertaining reviews (including information on coffeeshops, which this book essentially skips), but this book is an excellent one-stop source of travel information. If you're only bringing one guide to Amsterdam, this one will do the job well. If you can pack two, bring along the Irreverent Guide (or something similarly hip).
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