A must do. Our guide was amazing and knowledgeable.
About Activity
What's Included
Includes
- 1.5-hour walking tour
- Professional Guide
Excludes
- Gratuities
Departure & Return
Departure Point
- Departure Point: On the stairs of the national monument (Nationaal Monument) at Dam Square. The monument is a big white pillar/obelisk. Your tour guide will be wearing a red neckless/keycord with her/his name on it.
Itinerary
Discover Amsterdam's famous Red Light district on a critical and informative 1.5-hour tour
Start of the tour
Visit the iconic condom shop "condomerie" and learn about the history and importance of contraception in Amsterdam's red light district.
Explore the area around the Oude Kerk (the oldest church of Amsterdam) and dive deeper into the history of how the red light district was established in the historical center. Get a chance to see the first windows.
Discover the historic old harbour and learn about all the important facts related to sex work in the red light district. Is the sex work legal? How much do the services offered cost? How does the renting system of the windows work?
Take a critical perspective and dive deeper into issues that sex workers have to tackle. Find out whether the liberal city of Amsterdam has pimps and what the city does to make the district safe.
Learn about the history of coffeeshops, how they got established in Amsterdam, the political situation related to cannabis and the future of the red light district.
Receive some tips from your guide how to best explore the red light district at your own pace, including a 70's peep show.
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Reviews
Very informational and our guide was excellent. We went a little early. Not much going on until after 7PM
Our tour guide, Sofia, was excellent! She was knowledgeable and answer all our questions in depth. I can highly recommend her. The tour gives you a great background of how the red light district started and how it works today.
Lilli was wonderful and a very informative guide. Learning about the history of the Red Light District and how it is ran was very interesting!
We had Janine as our tour guide. She gave informative and interesting stories of Amsterdam. I really enjoyed the tour and would highly recommend.
An incredible tour with Janine! She was a fantastic guide who made the whole experience interesting, fun, and insightful. Don't be scared of the Red Light District. It's an important part of Amsterdam's culture and history, and it's much safer and more welcoming than you might expect. Janine explains everything perfectly and makes you see the area from a completely different perspective. Definitely recommend this tour to anyone visiting Amsterdam!
Janine was great very informative and told it like it was! Thank you for the wonderful tour.
Janine was fabulous especially as her first English speaking tour. So informative and brilliant. Happy to answer question and kept everything running smoothly
This tour was really interesting and our guide Maelle did a great job! She was super honest about the darker side of the Red Light District and it was a fascinating glimpse into this side of the city. Would recommend to anyone!
Such an awesome tour! Gives you the perfect background and allows you to really form your own opinion on the nature of the Red Light District. My tour guide, Johanna, was amazing! She was very knowledgeable and made it very easy for us to ask questions. I loved how she structured it so we all ended up with a sort of moral dilemma!!
Excellent tour. Very informative and Johanna was excellent. Very knowlegable and helpful. Highly Recommend.
I loved this tour and our loved guide Cristina. She explained things very thoroughly and answered all of our questions and made us feel comfortable with asking any question we could have. I booked this tour to gain a better understanding of the red light district and learn new things and this tour did that. I highly recommend this tour! Especially if you can get Cristina as your guide!
Lili was a wonderful tour guide. She was informative and gave interesting information regarding the red light district.
Great experience and highly recommended
Harrison was great! Fun, informative, engaging. Kept the large group together and made sure everyone could hear him. Lots of good little tidbits to share during the tour.
My partner and I attended the 8PM tour with Charlotte on 17 October. She was very knowledgeable and the tour was incredibly interesting, with plenty of twists and turns through the narrow streets of the Red Light District.
This is so much more than you would expect! Excellent source of history of the area. Our guide gave us so much information about the history, the church and how the system works in the district.
Our guide was very knowledgeable and presented the tour very well. Learned about the history and how the district came to be and how it is currently managed.
Really interesting insight into the red light district. How it came about & how it works today. Def recommend.
This is a very informative, interesting tour that helps with understanding an Amsterdam institution. Sofie G. is knowledgeable and really fun to listen to!
Andrés was a great guide and the tour itself was very informative and enjoyable.
Maxym did a great job explaining the history of the red light disrtrict. It made the experience more interesting
The walking tour started off a bit stressful for me because I got lost heading to the meetup point. However, our incredibly considerate guide, Maxym, went above and beyond by calling me on WhatsApp and sharing his location. I was truly impressed by Maxym's extra touch which truly elevated my experience. Once we got started, Maxym’s deep knowledge of the Red Light District's (RLD) history, combined with his jovial personality and engaging storytelling, made the experience both fascinating and fun. Our group of 13 was lively and light-hearted, which added to the great atmosphere. Maxym is a fantastic guide who brings the history of the Red Light District to life with a wonderful perspective and genuine respect for the community of women workers. We left the tour with a newfound appreciation for its past and present. It was a great insightful fun night out. I highly recommend this tour and Maxym as your guide!
Daniel was fun and informative. We had a lot of questions. Lol. Very interesting learning the history and proper etiquette of the red light district
Andres is a great guide, he explained with clarity and very diligently to guide and explain throughout the trip despite under the rain and wet cold weather. Very knowledgeable and helpful. Very professional.
loved the red light district tour with Sofia G., very well explained and my questions were answered even before i asked them (mindreading 😅), so the tour was also well planned 🙂↕️Sofia G. ist a very professional and very friendly and intelligent guide❤️ GRACIAS ❤️ book the tour, dont hesitate!
Obviously, you can walk around the area without a tour guide, but if you want to hear the history, some facts and understand different parts of the area a guide is a good option. Charlotte’s knowledge was good, but more importantly she engaged with everyone in a positive way.
It was a good overview of the area and history Our guide Teja was great. Had a lot of information and kept the tour interesting
Easy to book, knowledgeable guide, easy to find metro location.
I really enjoyed the tour and learned a lot. The only aspect that made me a bit uncomfortable was the reminder about tipping at the end. I understand that in some countries it's common to leave a tip in addition to paying for the service, but for me, since the tour had already been paid for beforehand, I felt that the cost already covered the experience. That said, the tour itself was very good, and I appreciated the guide's work and professionalism.
It's a fun walking tour. Learned a lot. Nastassia is fantastic guide. Extremely knowledgable. I'd definitely recommend this to anyone visiting Amsterdam for the first time
The tour guide was pleasant and met in a timely manner. The information of the area was interesting and informative. I guess we were expecting more information about Amsterdam as a whole. It may have been more worth our time to take a city tour rather than restricting the tour to only the red light district. For the money, it felt a little lacking. We have been to plenty of free walking tours which were much more detailed and informative.
Wonderful tour, the time just flew by! Risheet is a great guide - funny, knowledgeable and comfortable answering all our questions. We learnt a lot about the history of the Red Light District, what it’s like now for both sex workers and their clients and Risheet even had props and pictures to help us better understand his stories. Great value for money; I’d really recommend this!
It was great Tour by Janine, she hast good Energy
The tour guide Risheet (sp?) was very well versed and knowledgeable. He made the tour that much better
Simone gave an excellent tour of the Red Light District and the surrounding area. It was an eye opening experience
I highly recommend doing this tour! You will learn so much background information that you would never know on your own. Noe' was so good! He was entertaining, knowledgeable, and very respectful when discussing a sometimes-awkward conversation. You could tell he had done a lot of research on this area.
Noe’ was an amazing guide! Entertaining and extremely knowledgeable and informative. He is a college student, yet has the ability of relating to all people with his easy smile and sense of humor. Would highly recommend!
I loved the guide! He was funny and knowledgeable. Highly recommend! It was great to know the history of the area before exploring by myself.
Great tour, shout out to our guide Andre's he was super friendly and very knowledgeable.
Good explanation and informations with Lili.
We thoroughly enjoyed our walking tour with Anderes. He was interesting, friendly and informative. I highly recommend him!
The guide Teja kept it very informative as well as engaging and entertaining.
Sofia G gave us all a fantastic tour - what a knowledgeable young woman she made the tour fun, enlightening and interesting. She’s great!
Very interesting and enjoyable. The tour guide, Lili, met us punctually and was extremely knowledgeable. The tour was evenly paced and we had plenty of time to take in what we were looking at. Highly recommended.
Daniel was.amazing guide! He was extremely respectful explaining the Red Light Distrcit and gave us an informative experience. His knowledge on the history was exceptional.
Maxym was a great guide.t. His tour was very insightful. This is a good intro to the history of the city and red light district.
Daniel was a great tour guide - we learned so much about the city and how it all started. We would recommend this to everyone - 10/10!
Daniel is very informative. We learned a lot from the tour.
Daniel was fantastic and funny!
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