The former working-class grid behind the Heineken brewery, now the city's eating-and-drinking neighbourhood — the Albert Cuyp market down the middle, Surinamese, Turkish and new-Dutch kitchens side by side. Young, loud at weekends, the best food value in town.
A look around
What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.
1/3
€140–230
typical per night in Netherlands
The sensible middle
Cheapest in AmsterdamPriciest
Typical prices for Amsterdam — neither steal nor splurge.
Where it sits
The circle is De Pijp and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.
How far is everything?
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS)~18 min drive9.7 km
From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.
- Rijksmuseum9 min walk749 m
- Van Gogh Museum10 min walk847 m
- The canals by boat, at dusk18 min walk1.5 km
- Vondelpark on a fine day20 min walk1.6 km
- The Jordaan on foot27 min walk2.3 km
- An evening in a brown café27 min walk2.3 km
- Anne Frank House28 min walk2.3 km
- Ride a bike like you live here12 min taxi3.9 km
On your doorstep
What you’re living next to if you stay here.
- 8.Albert Cuyp Market — A century-old street market a kilometre long — cheese wheels, fabric, fish, and the best cheap lunch crawl in the city. The stalls' shouted Dutch is a dialect of its own.
- 9.A stroopwafel, made in front of you — Fresh off the iron, still warm, syrup molten — a different food from the packet version entirely. The Albert Cuyp stand with the queue is the one; eat it before the caramel sets.
- 12.Raw herring from a stand — Hollandse nieuwe with onions and pickles, held by the tail or eaten Amsterdam-style in chunks — the national dare that turns out to be delicious. June's new catch is the season; any haringhandel will initiate you.
When are you staying?
Find cheap flights to Amsterdam
Booking.com & Airbnb open searched to De Pijp; flights via Google Flights.