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It’s easy to find cheap flights to Amsterdam, with most major UK airports flying to Schiphol Airport several times a day. It’s a popular destination year-round – there is still business travel when the tourism season dies down, and Amsterdam is also a major hub for international flights. With flight times of as little as an hour, it’s a quick and easy journey too.

The Dutch capital is renowned for its lively nightlife and the traditional good looks of its centre, with tall houses lining the canals and grand civic buildings fringing its squares. It’s also packed with museums and galleries, including the superb Rijksmuseum.

The average non-stop flight time between the UK and Amsterdam is between 1 hour and 1 hour 35 minutes, meaning it’s a quick flight wherever you fly from. Indirect flights can take from 3 hours 35 minutes to over 5 hours – however, most major UK airports have direct flights to Amsterdam, and direct is normally the cheaper.

Amsterdam-Schiphol is well connected with the centre of Amsterdam, and there are a number of options when it comes to getting to the city centre. To get to Amsterdam Centraal Station from the airport, you can jump on a direct train that takes 23 minutes. If you’d prefer to get a taxi or hire a car, the drive takes around 35 minutes.

Amsterdam is home to some of the liveliest nightlife in Europe, with a wide variety of bars and nightclubs catering to virtually every music taste you could imagine. In the city centre, Rembrandtplein and Leidseplein are the neighbourhoods to head to for a great (and often raucous) night out, with a range of live venues, dance music clubs and the city’s famous ‘brown cafes’ – traditional watering holes which have retained their original medieval character. Head to our Amsterdam hotels page to search for packages deals in the city centre.

If you’re visiting Amsterdam for art and culture, the Rijksmuseum should be top of your list. One of the best art collections in the world, it includes masterpieces by Van Gogh and Rembrandt, among many others. Opposite sits the Van Gogh Museum, where you can explore the life and work of the troubled genius in even greater depth. The city’s most poignant museum is the Anne Frank House, where the teenager wrote her famous diary.