I can see why they’d want this and can’t envy the residents of so-called ‘party’ cities, but god knows they’ve capitalised on *being* a party spot for as long as I can remember.
Hopefully those who profit from it will be able to subsidise or offset how they make their money, if a genuine effort to curtail party-going holiday-makers is made.
Amsterdam is such an amazing city with really cool food and culture and bars……but only outside the city centre which is just full of completely trashy tourists from all over europe
It will take a long time for their reputation to fade away though. Amsterdam offers more than partying but it will be top of the list for most people if you asked them to name a foreign city to go to for a stag/hen do.
We do have a huge alcohol problem here that’s seen as normal. I don’t blame them at all for wanting us to stay away. As a guy who don’t drink it’s crazy to walk through a main street and see the madness going on. Normally at least one guy just pissing in the road while holding a kebab and some woman sitting in her own sick with one shoe on.
We had our honeymoon in Amsterdam and have been back a couple of times since and love the city. We certainly aren’t lager louts, seen the price of a drink there for a start? we used to go because it’s a beautiful city . Sad to see we won’t be welcome anymore because we’re British.
I think a lot of people are misunderstanding this article. This isn’t saying Britons are the worst, just that they are starting the campaign by aiming it at Britons to test its effectiveness. It does say they will be targeting other European countries as well. There is no mention of British people being worse in any way to anywhere else.
Honestly if the people are happy to ply the tourists with weed and booze I really don’t have sympathy for them.
I mean you have a place that is cheap and easy to fly to that has legal drugs alchol and a district of sex shows and prositutes and they wonder why they aren’t getting the best tourists ?
Are they joking, it gives us some rest bite, won’t they think of the poor suffering Brits who will have to put up with them for longer now!
No sympathy for the Dutch. They can’t handle being put to shame by my drinking skllls. Cry while I have this lager. The problem after having so many lagers is the need to piss. As a short guy, it’s a problem when the urinal is at eye level. Why they so tall?
First visited in 2004 and numerous times since then and I’ve never been aware of a situation where you were actually permitted to smoke in the RLD anyway.
In my experience the police would walk past someone smoking a joint to reprimand someone for pissing in the street.
I feel like if you’re going to go to Amsterdam and are the type of person to exhibit drunken loutish behaviour in your home country then you’re highly unlikely to be dissuaded by an online campaign.
If only we had an island in the Atlantic that had really nice weather and we could develop into a party island.
Im actually asking. Do we have that.
This was all contained, however, to a certain district – the bars won’t just disappear? Netherlands and Belgium alap both have much better cities for cultural activity. It’s like Soho trying to reframe itself as the premiere museum locale.
Amsterdam is not as attractive anymore. I live in the Netherlands and over the last few years they have cracked down on the number of sex shops, brothels, etc. A lot of them are closed. And I read last week that there are plans that they want to move the well known red-light district (De Wallen) to another location.
Being drunk in public should honestly be a crime everywhere, like drink driving, there’s a limit. It’s embarrassing and scary with how most drunk people act.
Nobody should be pissing in the street or having a shit behind the bins, or having a fight with a bus driver because he won’t let you on with sick all over your clothes.
If you need to get completely wankered to enjoy yourself you’ve got issues you need to work on. You can have fun without drinking 20 pints.
Feel sorry for these cities, Oxford is bad enough with the students. They have teams of cleaners in the mornings just to deal with all the puddles of sick in the highstreet before the shops open. That itself shows how much people are drinking beyond their limits.
If there’s one thing I know about rowdy brits is that they’ll see an international government’s campaign message and do exactly what it suggests
Good luck anyone who wants to pay 11 euros for a pint of Heineken and navigate the packed streets.
Get yourselves to Antwerp or Rotterdam
Just rowdy Brits? I’ve seen Germans go a bit crazy there too.
I’ve only been to Amsterdam twice. Would love to visit more often but it’s not a comfortable visit. You’ve got one section of the locals trying to take advantage of you, and another section of the locals who hate you the minute you open your mouth.
I go to great lengths to be kind, polite, considerate and not the expected British lout when abroad. But because of the way some of us act & the colonial past, it makes for a hostile reception no matter where you go, with a few exceptions. It very much puts me off travelling, knowing I’m going to be perceived as a piece of shit by default.
I travel to Scandinavia a few times a year for work, and travel via Schiphol. Inevitably sometimes I need to spend a night in town, and I go there quite often with my GF.
UK “party” tourists, especially the English are awful. Nobody likes those kinds of tourists, other than the folk trying to sell “hard” drugs. The city if full of amazing places to eat and drink (it’s not that cheap) – and I don’t for a second think anyone in those areas is going to have any issues with the normal English or UK tourists at all.
This thread is full of people who have clearly never been to Amsterdam, or if they have – they have been been to a handful of streets in the city center. If the places you visit always had people hanging about trying to sell you drugs, or they were standing at the end of the street – then you’ve somehow managed to visit a grand total of about 5 streets in the entire city.
I was on an easyjet flight out of Amsterdam to Manchester last year. Just as we started taxiing to the runway the plane had to turn around and go back to the gate because one of the passangers had too much to smoke and was freaking out. Ok, it happens, few people laughed. Then we started taxiing again and after 5 minutes we had to turn around AGAIN because ANOTHER guy had too much weed before the flight and was hyperventilating. That was infurating.
I’d love to visit Amsterdam for the art, history etc. The fact that people see it as a place to go and get wasted for a weekend has always put me off.
If anyone says they’re going to Amsterdam you just know why and it’s not usually art or culture.
Love Amsterdam for both its cultural sights and its relaxed laws on weed, but I can totally understand their approach here. The grimmest experience I had in Amsterdam was being dragged by some friends to the ‘British cafe’. All the other cafes had been quite mellow and chilled with quiet music and people taking it easy – the British cafe was loud club music and pints of lager – we sat outside as my friends took one look at me and realised I really wasn’t digging the vibe, so we got sit amidst the remains of dozens of broken pint glasses in the street outside. The aggression inside the place would put a provincial British meat-market nightclub to shame.
Why exactly isn’t this considered xenophobic? But if we started a campaign in say.. I don’t know.. Romania.. saying “stay away” to Romanians that didn’t want to be decent people, it absolutely would be.
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I can see why they’d want this and can’t envy the residents of so-called ‘party’ cities, but god knows they’ve capitalised on *being* a party spot for as long as I can remember.
Hopefully those who profit from it will be able to subsidise or offset how they make their money, if a genuine effort to curtail party-going holiday-makers is made.
Amsterdam is such an amazing city with really cool food and culture and bars……but only outside the city centre which is just full of completely trashy tourists from all over europe
It will take a long time for their reputation to fade away though. Amsterdam offers more than partying but it will be top of the list for most people if you asked them to name a foreign city to go to for a stag/hen do.
We do have a huge alcohol problem here that’s seen as normal. I don’t blame them at all for wanting us to stay away. As a guy who don’t drink it’s crazy to walk through a main street and see the madness going on. Normally at least one guy just pissing in the road while holding a kebab and some woman sitting in her own sick with one shoe on.
We had our honeymoon in Amsterdam and have been back a couple of times since and love the city. We certainly aren’t lager louts, seen the price of a drink there for a start? we used to go because it’s a beautiful city . Sad to see we won’t be welcome anymore because we’re British.
I think a lot of people are misunderstanding this article. This isn’t saying Britons are the worst, just that they are starting the campaign by aiming it at Britons to test its effectiveness. It does say they will be targeting other European countries as well. There is no mention of British people being worse in any way to anywhere else.
Honestly if the people are happy to ply the tourists with weed and booze I really don’t have sympathy for them.
I mean you have a place that is cheap and easy to fly to that has legal drugs alchol and a district of sex shows and prositutes and they wonder why they aren’t getting the best tourists ?
Are they joking, it gives us some rest bite, won’t they think of the poor suffering Brits who will have to put up with them for longer now!
No sympathy for the Dutch. They can’t handle being put to shame by my drinking skllls. Cry while I have this lager. The problem after having so many lagers is the need to piss. As a short guy, it’s a problem when the urinal is at eye level. Why they so tall?
First visited in 2004 and numerous times since then and I’ve never been aware of a situation where you were actually permitted to smoke in the RLD anyway.
In my experience the police would walk past someone smoking a joint to reprimand someone for pissing in the street.
I feel like if you’re going to go to Amsterdam and are the type of person to exhibit drunken loutish behaviour in your home country then you’re highly unlikely to be dissuaded by an online campaign.
If only we had an island in the Atlantic that had really nice weather and we could develop into a party island.
Im actually asking. Do we have that.
This was all contained, however, to a certain district – the bars won’t just disappear? Netherlands and Belgium alap both have much better cities for cultural activity. It’s like Soho trying to reframe itself as the premiere museum locale.
Amsterdam is not as attractive anymore. I live in the Netherlands and over the last few years they have cracked down on the number of sex shops, brothels, etc. A lot of them are closed. And I read last week that there are plans that they want to move the well known red-light district (De Wallen) to another location.
Being drunk in public should honestly be a crime everywhere, like drink driving, there’s a limit. It’s embarrassing and scary with how most drunk people act.
Nobody should be pissing in the street or having a shit behind the bins, or having a fight with a bus driver because he won’t let you on with sick all over your clothes.
If you need to get completely wankered to enjoy yourself you’ve got issues you need to work on. You can have fun without drinking 20 pints.
Feel sorry for these cities, Oxford is bad enough with the students. They have teams of cleaners in the mornings just to deal with all the puddles of sick in the highstreet before the shops open. That itself shows how much people are drinking beyond their limits.
If there’s one thing I know about rowdy brits is that they’ll see an international government’s campaign message and do exactly what it suggests
Good luck anyone who wants to pay 11 euros for a pint of Heineken and navigate the packed streets.
Get yourselves to Antwerp or Rotterdam
Just rowdy Brits? I’ve seen Germans go a bit crazy there too.
I’ve only been to Amsterdam twice. Would love to visit more often but it’s not a comfortable visit. You’ve got one section of the locals trying to take advantage of you, and another section of the locals who hate you the minute you open your mouth.
I go to great lengths to be kind, polite, considerate and not the expected British lout when abroad. But because of the way some of us act & the colonial past, it makes for a hostile reception no matter where you go, with a few exceptions. It very much puts me off travelling, knowing I’m going to be perceived as a piece of shit by default.
I travel to Scandinavia a few times a year for work, and travel via Schiphol. Inevitably sometimes I need to spend a night in town, and I go there quite often with my GF.
UK “party” tourists, especially the English are awful. Nobody likes those kinds of tourists, other than the folk trying to sell “hard” drugs. The city if full of amazing places to eat and drink (it’s not that cheap) – and I don’t for a second think anyone in those areas is going to have any issues with the normal English or UK tourists at all.
This thread is full of people who have clearly never been to Amsterdam, or if they have – they have been been to a handful of streets in the city center. If the places you visit always had people hanging about trying to sell you drugs, or they were standing at the end of the street – then you’ve somehow managed to visit a grand total of about 5 streets in the entire city.
I was on an easyjet flight out of Amsterdam to Manchester last year. Just as we started taxiing to the runway the plane had to turn around and go back to the gate because one of the passangers had too much to smoke and was freaking out. Ok, it happens, few people laughed. Then we started taxiing again and after 5 minutes we had to turn around AGAIN because ANOTHER guy had too much weed before the flight and was hyperventilating. That was infurating.
I’d love to visit Amsterdam for the art, history etc. The fact that people see it as a place to go and get wasted for a weekend has always put me off.
If anyone says they’re going to Amsterdam you just know why and it’s not usually art or culture.
Love Amsterdam for both its cultural sights and its relaxed laws on weed, but I can totally understand their approach here. The grimmest experience I had in Amsterdam was being dragged by some friends to the ‘British cafe’. All the other cafes had been quite mellow and chilled with quiet music and people taking it easy – the British cafe was loud club music and pints of lager – we sat outside as my friends took one look at me and realised I really wasn’t digging the vibe, so we got sit amidst the remains of dozens of broken pint glasses in the street outside. The aggression inside the place would put a provincial British meat-market nightclub to shame.
Why exactly isn’t this considered xenophobic? But if we started a campaign in say.. I don’t know.. Romania.. saying “stay away” to Romanians that didn’t want to be decent people, it absolutely would be.