Amsterdam Shopping Tips by MATIM

PC Hooftstraat: The most expensive street of Amsterdam PC Hooftstraat Review

What to buy: The P.C. Hoofstraat is amsterdam’’ s most upscale and exclusive shopping street. Along three short blocks is every label and designer you desire: Chanel, Louis Vutton, DKNY, Mulberry, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfinger and more.

What to pay: bring a large amount of money with you!

Address: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooftstraat

Directions: 1 block East of the Vondelpark

Theme: Women's Clothes

Albert Cuyp Market: The best market from Amsterdam Street Market - Albert Cuyp Review

Amsterdam’s most famous open- air market, celebrated its 100th year in 2005.
Find bargains on everything from clothing and textile to food and furniture.
The Albert Cuyp Market is in the middle of the nineteenth century Amsterdam district of De Pijp: Amsterdam’s Latin Quarter. Particularly in recent years De Pijp has become a very popular place to live. The many exotic little shops, creative and craft based small businesses, and friendly cafés and restaurants give the area a lively and varied character.
Try the fresh orange juice, even our Dutch queen had one according the picture at the stand.
You will find real Amsterdam humour and a genuine Amsterdam atmosphere and amiability. An outing to Amsterdam is not complete without a visit to the most popular market in the Netherlands.
The Cuyp has been in existence since 1905 and after more then 100 years is still incredibly attractive to the ordinary Amsterdammer, to bargain hunters, strollers, day-trippers, torusts…..for just about everyone. Fresh vegetables, fruit, fish, flowers and plants, you will find them all at Albert Cuyp. But also splendeid materials, trendy clothes, textiles, fine leather goods and jewellery. Have a tasty new herringat the fish stall, or take a bag of freshly made syrup waffles home. You can drink a cup of coffee in a cheerful old fashioned coffee house or in a super modern café.
Discover a statue of a popular Dutch singer, André Hazes, on the corner of Albert Cuypstraat and the Eerste Sweelinckstraat.
With 260 stalls Albert Cuyp is the largest daily market in Europe. Not a place where you will get bored quickly.

The market is in he middle of the nineteenth-century Amsterdam distict of De Pijp: Amsterdam’s latin Quarter. Particularly in recent years De Pijp has become a very popular place to live. The many exotic little shops, creative and craft based small businesses, and friendly cafés and restaurants give the area a lively and varied character.

What to buy: I bought the American flag for my daughter because soon she has a speech at school about San Francisco and Las Vegas

Directions: Tram line: 16 to: VU Medisch Centrum, stop Albert Cuypstraat
Tram line: 24 to: Stadionplein, stop Albert Cuypstraat

no free parking in Amsterdam centre
(including Albert Cuypstraat). You can use the 'Heinekenplein'
car park on 1e van de Helststraat.

Theme: Other

Magna Plaza: Beautiful building Magna Plaza Review

Magna Plaza,
An exclusive shopping centre in a stunning monumental building. It is located close by the Dam Square behind the palace at Nieuwezijds voorburg wal.
The former Head Post Office in the heart of Amsterdam is a building of great allure. Flanked by the Royal Palace on the Dam and the New Church, its imposing façade has been a familiar sight for visitors for almost a century: first as Head Post Office, now as a shopping center of international class. It was designed by the famous Dutch architect Cornelis Hendrik Peters in Neo-Gothic style, another example of which are the Houses of Parliament in London, and presents a mixture of Gothic and romantic elements. In 1992, the municipality decided to add this beautiful building to the list of Amsterdam’s ten most precious monuments, and invited four well-established architects to submit a plan for its renovation. Today, it is home to the Magna Plaza Shopping Center, the first indoor leisure and shopping center in the heart of the city.

Open 7 days a week
Monday: 11.00 - 19.00
Tuesday till Saturday: 10.00 - 19.00
Thursdays shopping hour till 21.00
Sunday: 12.00 - 19.00

Magna plaza is only closed 4 days a year:
25 and 26 December
1 January
30 April (Dutch queensday)

What to pay: Very expensive stores are stored here, bring a lot of money with you.

Directions: Dam Square behind the palace at Nieuwezijds voorburg wal.
Very near the railway station

Theme: Women's Clothes