Amsterdam Red Light District and coffee shops tour

Overview

Visit the popular Red Light District in Amsterdam and learn about its history. During this 2-hour tour your guide will tell you interesting facts of the neighborhood and the coffee shop culture in Amsterdam. Find out why prostitution in the Netherlands is legal and marijuana is tolerated.Meet your guide at Amsterdam Centraal Station and continue along the city’s narrowest streets, through the Chinatown to the Red Light District, discovering old houses and small shops on the way.See the first coffee shop of Amsterdam and learn about coffee shop culture, prostitution, political issues, and history. During this tour, you’ll see many of the Red Light windows and walk through the narrowest street of Amsterdam. Get some insider tips about the best coffee shops, bars, restaurants and erotic-themed attractions.After the tour, you are able to enter a coffee shop for a demonstration and workshop on how to roll a joint. Purchase some food and drinks as you enjoy a relaxing break and smoke a joint - only if you want to.

What's included

Visit to a coffee shop and workshop

What's Not included

Food and drinks

Where

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Meeting point:

Meet your guide in front of the central station of Amsterdam at the "Tram A" sign.

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What To Expect

Experience a private Red Light District and coffee shop tour in Amsterdam
Learn about the area’s colorful past and how prostitution came to be legalized
Stroll the cobbled alleys of the Red Light area, passing sex shops, brothel windows and erotic theaters
Visit a coffee shop (optional), where cannabis is accepted and consumed

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