I have never been but I have heard things from friends that have. The thing that stuck with me the most is be careful if you do anything harder then marijuana in Amsterdam. I've heard that some locals will give you fucked up or the wrong shit because they don't like Americans. I don't know if that's true but I heard it.

+ packing, getting to the train station, gettin to the hotel, unpacking etc.

what i mean is the whole day is pretty much wasted cause your traveling.

of course it doesnt take a whole day actual travel time

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You should just fly from london to amsterdam. Catch a bus to luton airport, or a train to stansted (either takes just under an hour), then catch a budget flight for about 40quid to amsterdam, the flight is only an hour and usually leaves around 4pm. check out of your hotel at 11 (normal checkout time), get a bite of lunch and say goodbye to london, cruise to the airport, and you'll be in your hotel room in amsterdam by 8pm, guaranteed. Trust me I've done it and plan to again in august.

Then If you're set on Paris (it's dirty and expensive), catch the eurostar from the dam and you'll be there in just a few hours. None of those trips will take up more than a half day.

As for things to do in Amsterdam, I plan on spending a lot of time in the vondelpark this time since i'll be there in summer. They have free concerts and movie screenings on there all the time, and it's just a great place to relax and smoke on a nice day. The entire city is awesome to hang out, shop, visit bars (and coffeeshops obviously), and eat in. It's one of my favourite cities in the world even without the smoking and red light district.

Great info! Sounds like you've been a few times.. so just curious, is there any way to stay away from naked girls and still smoke? I am a girl and really don't care to see all that. I'm there for the ganja, ya feel me?

I really just want some clean fun. I'd love to walk around the city, hit up some unique shops, go to all the popular attractions, local festivals, and dine at some authentic restaurants.

The more I read, the more nervous I get because every book or travel journal I have read talks about all the crazies in the street trying to mug all the tourist, and they talk about nasty girls dancing in windows, etc.

I would just like to know if it is possible to stay away from the Red Light District and still have some memorable stoner moments in Amsterdam. Or are all the shops in the RLD?

You mentioned smoking in Vondelpark.. so there will be people just toking it up right there in the middle of the park, legally? And they say there is a 5g limit per person. So can you just coffeeshop hop and get 5g at every place you stop at? Hahh, just thought I'd ask.

One last question.. not sure if you seen the movie Hostel... but yeah, SKURRYYYY!!!!! haha. So yeah, I don't want to stay at any nasty places just to smoke... can I smoke at any hotel? Or do you know of a nice one (Hilton, Omni, Wyndham, or something like that) which is stoner friendly? I want to stay somewhere I can smoke in my room, but still is considered a 3 star or above HOTEL... not a HOSTEL... not sure the difference, but after the movie... i am a terrified little paranoid American that has beautiful virgin eyes. lol

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There are coffeeshops everywhere, not just in the red light district. For example you can go to the heineken experience (brewery tour), and on your way back up the street that it's on you'll pass "little" and "mellow yellow" coffeeshops. I tend to stay out of the red light district - it is fun and cool to see, I recommend you check it out for at least a few hours so you have some stories to tell your friends, but it definitely is a little shady at night. Plus I'm going with my girlfriend this time, and I'm not one to partake of the services offered. Not particularly unsafe I don't think, at least I never felt unsafe, but it does get pretty wild and I can tell you're not really into that. You can go see a sex show though, pretty much everyone I've talked to has had a great time at those, even groups of girls/people who ordinarily wouldn't be into strip clubs (and this is more than a strip club).

You definitely don't want to dine at authentic dutch restaurants...I'm not sure they even exist. If they did, no one would go, dutch food is terrible. The city does have lots of great restaurants though, just not dutch.

You can have a great time in amsterdam without barely even visiting the red light district. If you look at maps of the place it's just one of many many districts of the city. I think the pot museum is in the RLD, so you might need to head there for a few attractions, but again, if you go in the day time you won't find it any different from the other district in terms of safety (there will be a lot more women in lingerie in windows though...however a lot of them aren't what I would call "nasty").

Lots of people smoke in the park, just don't light up around people with children. I tend to just sit at the edge of one of the ponds away from the crowds and smoke a few joints. It's the same with anywhere in amsterdam really, you can smoke in public, but don't piss anyone off in the process. ex. if you want to smoke at a cafe/restaurant ask your server if it's ok first.

You could buy 5 grams at more than one coffeeshop, but it's not wise to carry more than 5 at a time. Why? because technically you can be prosecuted for carrying more than 5 at a time. The odds of you getting caught and actually being ticketed or something are 1 in a million, but why break the law? Be a responsible stoner! Besides, if you need more than 5 grams of amsterdam weed, you're buying the wrong stuff. Get 5 grams of ice-o-later or something and it will last you your whole trip.

I didn't see the movie hostel, but I have stayed in hostels all over Europe. The flying pig hostel in Amsterdam is definitely one of the coolest places I've ever stayed. My dorm room was nice and chill, the bar was full of awesome people, and they have a deck for smoking and a stage area covered in pillows for hanging out. So if you ever need to travel on a budget, don't hesitate to get a hostel.

I don't know much about hotels in amsterdam, just pick the one that's in a nice area (leidseplein, vondelpark, etc.) and phone them or email to ask. I doubt the really upscale hotels will permit smoking though, I think most of them are smoke free properties.

Hey rollwyou, I love amsterdam, ive been 3 times now in the past 5 yrs, 2 times with my wife in the last 2 and 3 years. Definatly print off a coffeeshop map from here http://www.coffeeshop.freeuk.com/Map.html. I used that as my map exclusivly as it has enough detail, and the coffee shops are great landmarks. Our personal favorite shops are 420, its nice cause its close to the amsterdam central/train station, rokerij, and dampkring. Grey area is owned by americans, and has some pretty good stuff, but very small. Definatly visit homegrown too, and try to cheese, very unique.

As for the park, its one of our favorite places, You can defiantly smoke up in the park, when we were there, probably 90% of the people in the park was rolling joints. Very relaxing, and I would recommend going. Its nice just going and smoking totally in public.

As far as the RLD, the girls arnt naked, just dressed in bikinis and lingerie My wife was the same way though, we mostly stayed away from that area, though its mainly just 2 blocks or so, much smaller than it was before. Though you should definatly atlesat go around the area a bit, as there are alot of coffeeshops around there. Dont waste your money buying any of the drugs that the shady dealers there are selling.

A few things to know, things close early there compared to here. Most stores close around 5, except cofeeshops and restaurants, they close on the weekends there also, so its more "fun" on the weekdays.If you can, try to stay southern part of amsterdam, some of the stores there are open later than the northern part.

As for food, most things are pretty expensive, but for cheap eats, I have a few recommendations. Febo wierd is awesome, try everything. Australian is awesome for icecream and waffles w/ice cream. Walk to wok is good, and the small lebanese restaurants have good sharomas. Jamin has some good pies and drinks. Theres also a tosted bread place there thats pretty good, dont remember the name. Real Sitdown restaurants are pretty expensive there 13-20 euros, but you have find a 5 euro one near the southern part of amsterdam near bulldog and rokerij. Jordaan also has cheap eats supposedly, but Ive never really walked around there too much

If you can find it, theres a amazing place called Wonderbar near northern amsterdam, you can smoke and eat there, which is rare IMO. And not too expensive, only 7 euros for a meatball sub, very nice to sit there and smoke after a meal watching ppl go by.

As for bringing seeds back, very easy. She just put some in her pants in the checkin without the wrapper or anything. THey are very small, so it shouldnt be any problems. We even brought like 7gs of hash back. It was "on" her and we walked right past drug dogs, lemme know if u want more info about that

Adam is awesome though, def one of our favorite vacation spots. We are also 23 and newly married