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restaurants (Plancius or Café Koosje) near the Dutch
Resistance Museum.
14:30
Free time to shop and explore.
17:00
Tour the Anne Frank House. (Consider booking tickets
online to avoid long lines.)
18:30
Take my self-guided Jordaan Walk.
20:00
Dinner in the Jordaan neighborhood.
Day 3
Visit the nearby town of Haarlem (see page 201).
Day 4
Side-trip by train to one folk museum; choose among Arnhem's,
Enkhuizen's, or Zaandijk's (Zaanse Schans museum). Unless
you're visiting far-flung Arnhem, you could also easily fit in a short
visit to one of these towns: Edam, Delft, or The Hague.
oVErViEW
(area code: 020)
Tourist Information
“VVV” (pronounced “vay vay vay”) is Dutch for “TI,” a tourist
information office. Amsterdam's tourist offices are crowded and
inefficient—avoid them if you can. For €0.60 a minute, you can
save yourself a trip by calling the TI toll line from within the
Netherlands at 0900-400-4040 (Mon-Fri 9:00-17:00, from the
US dial 011-31-20-551-2525). The TI at Schiphol Airport (offering
all the information found at the offices in the city center) and the
TI in Haarlem (offering the Amsterdam basics; see page 202) are
much friendlier and less crowded.
If you want to visit an Amsterdam TI in person, here are the
locations of the four offices:
•
inside Central Station
at track 2b (summer: Sat-Thu
8:00-20:00, Fri 8:00-21:00; winter: Mon-Sat 8:00-20:00, Sun
9:00-17:00; may move to ground f loor as part of ongoing train
station construction)
•
in front of Central Station (daily July-Aug 8:00-20:00,
Sept-June 9:00-17:00, most crowded)
•
on
the Singel Canal, in a kiosk at Stadhouderskade 1 (daily
9:30-17:00, less crowded)
•
at the
airport
(daily 7:00-22:00)
Amsterdam's TIs sell tickets to the Anne Frank House (for
€0.50 extra per ticket, same-day tickets available), allowing you
to skip the line at the sight (though it's quicker to order tickets
online—see next page). The TIs also sell tickets (without a fee) to
