Amsterdam as a weekend city break has exploded in popularity with the advent of cheap flights to Amsterdam. In some cases it is cheaper to fly to Amsterdam that it would be to travel to Manchester from London.
Your cheap flight to Amsterdam will touch down in Schipol International, which is about 15km south west of the city centre. A regular train service, every 10 minutes during the day and every hour between 12-6am, runs from the airport to Amsterdam Central. The journey takes between 15-20 minutes and costs around €4.
As you can imagine there are lots of taxis at Schipol airport. It will cost around €45 to get to most parts of Amsterdam city centre. Cheap Amsterdam’s tip would be to get a hotel shuttle bus like Connexxion which leave outside the arrival hall every 30 minutes.
Cheap Amsterdam – no frill airlines guide
Low cost –budget airlines Cheap Amsterdam’s quick guide to low cost carriers. Amsterdam is well served by no frills airline companies offering cheap flights to Amsterdam. These airline companies have successfully captured a very lucrative market by keeping such costs as administration and turn-around times down.
Cheap Amsterdam have grouped together the main no frill carriers which offer cheap flights to Amsterdam and Holland.
- KLM-The Dutch national airline offer cheap flights to Amsterdam from most of the UK’s major airports, Aberdeen, Cardiff, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, Humberside Hull, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Bristol, Teeside.
- JET2.COM-A relative new commer to the market JET2.COM is a low cost budget airline flying from Leeds Bradford International Airport. It offers cheap flights to Amsterdam, Geneva, Ibiza and other destinations. JET2.COM flies 3 times a day to Schipol Airport and it usually takes around an hour.
- BMIBABY.COM -BMIBABY.COM is a budget which flies from Nottingham East Midlands airport, Cardiff and Birmingham International to Amsterdam. BMIBABY operate between 3 and 5 cheap flights to Amsterdam a day, Monday to Sunday from these airports.
- Easyjet -Easyjet is one of the first no frills budget airlines. Easyjet offer cheap flights to Amsterdam from a variety of UK airports, Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Gatwick, Luton and Stansted.
Cheap Amsterdam – weekend breaks
The beauty of cheap flights to Amsterdam is that if you combine it with a cheap hotel in Amsterdam, you could save up to 70% off normal rates, you will be able to spoil yourself in the exquisite restaurants and bars in the city.