Thinking of a city break in Amsterdam?

Read our brief city guide to Amsterdam below to help you decide if a weekend getaway or short break in Amsterdam is what you want, then click on Amsterdam short break packages to view our short break packages to Amsterdam.

There are some marvellous art galleries in this city – the Rijksmuseum, the van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum – and Anne Frank's House and the Jewish Museum are well worth a visit 800 years old, but young at heart: Nothing would describe the joyful capital of the Netherlands better. Known for its canals and bicycles, Amsterdam offers cultural highlights such as the Rijksmuseum and the Anne Frank House. Small and densely packed with gabled merchant houses and arched drawbridges reminiscent of the Golden Age, the city can be easily explored on foot or by bike