What NOT to do in Amsterdam

[rks0]

Don't take a bottle of beer into a coffeeshop.

Sounds daft, but I saw some young bloke walk into Betty Boops waving a bottle of beer a few years ago. The budtender made light work of ejecting him from the premises.

[Taylor]

Don't not do this.

Go on a McDonalds crawl with the Munchies. Culminating in eating 20 Hamburgers and 10 ice creams in a couple hours.

[gebstar]

If your driving to the Dam dont go to the Olympic Park and Ride and just think you have qualified for P+R when your actually still paying per hour, then go and leave the car for three days and get stung with a 120 Euro bill....

[Fred]

This one has to be used in a trip report in full detail... DONT get a chinese massage at that place near the Voyagers. I was totally greased up (with shorts on) and the neck pain didn't go away.

The same for me without the grease... but at a chinese place near the buddist temple...
Came in just feeling a little tense from tiredness, left with sore neck and back (which lasted 3 days) !

[thompaw]

Do not think you are buying orange juice.

[Slip & Sal]

Do not think you are buying orange juice.

What is it?

[StillSmokin]

What is it?

It is...

A yoghurt! Well, actually, that's what I suspected, but the only thing I could see on the picture that gave it away was "zuiveldrink" - which google tells me is "dairy drink".

I'd stay well away from anything that's supposed to be a juice with "extra vitamins" anyway, just get thoughts of that horrible chemical SunnyD type stuff.

[Smith2]

I don't think I ever recovered from ordering a glass of karnemelk in a coffee shop far from the centre, many, many years ago. I have a fondness for milk from time to time – less so now, perhaps, but I was in my 20s then – and it sounded so festive and colourful, what with its echoes of carnival. I think I rather hoped it would be striped.

Now there are very few things I can't eat or drink to be polite, or if I've ordered them by mistake, but buttermilk is one of them. And I would have known what it was had they called it botermelk, as they do in Belgium, a far more civilised country, at least when it comes to Flemish vs Dutch. I've never forgiven the Dutch language since.

[RvanSteensel]

I don't think I ever recovered from ordering a glass of karnemelk in a coffee shop far from the centre, many, many years ago. I have a fondness for milk from time to time – less so now, perhaps, but I was in my 20s then – and it sounded so festive and colourful, what with its echoes of carnival. I think I rather hoped it would be striped.

Now there are very few things I can't eat or drink to be polite, or if I've ordered them by mistake, but buttermilk is one of them. And I would have known what it was had they called it botermelk, as they do in Belgium, a far more civilised country, at least when it comes to Flemish vs Dutch. I've never forgiven the Dutch language since.

lol belgians more civilized ?

if civilized means "wears ugly clothes" and "smokes weed with 80% tabacco " than yes you do

[myoung321]

Great thread guys... keep'em coming... This thread should be a must read for every visitor

[TwoCanucks]

When they ask "purpose of visit" at immigration... don't say "to party".

[spireax]

don't stand near the doors on the train and waft yourself with yr favourite hat to cool down. You will drop it, it will fall out of the doors, you won't see it again

[rks0]

When you're at Schiphol, idling away the last half hour or so before you board your plane to go home, don't put your coat down, and then as you're boarding said plane, think 'bugger, where's my coat'.

[matty223]

Do not think you are buying orange juice.

yeah i made that mistake back in 2008

[myoung321]

See, now that's good info. I would have thought that was OJ without hesitation.