Parking in Amsterdam
When you travel by car or rent a car it will be helpful to know where you can park your car in a garage. Amsterdam is a city with limited parking space on the street and where it can thus be very expensive to park. Luckily some parking spots are cheaper than others. This is mostly dependent on the distance between the parking space and the shopping centers in the inner city of Amsterdam. Below you can find a list of ways to park in Amsterdam and where most parking garages are located.
P+R Transferium locations Amsterdam
The best way to park in Amsterdam is by using the Park and Ride facilities. The reason why this is the best way to park your car is because it’s very cheap, the P+R locations are well connected with public transportation and your car will be safe from tourists on bikes. The parking rates for your car there are extremely low. You will however be required to buy a public transportation ticket for each person. With this public transportation ticket you can make one trip to the city center and one trip back to the P+R location.
P+R parking rates (in 2018) excluding the public transportation tickets are:
– When entering P+R on weekdays before 10:00 am : €8 for the first 24 hours, then €1 for subsequent 24 hour periods
– When entering P+R on weekdays after 10:00 am : €1 per 24 hours
– When entering P+R in the weekend : €1 per 24 hours
As you can park for 1 euro a day we at Meet The Cities strongly recommend making use of the P+R facilities in Amsterdam.
Street parking
In Amsterdam there are quite a few parking spots in the streets, but we do not recommend parking in the streets of Amsterdam as this can be quite pricey. Traffic wardens can also be rather unforgiving towards wrongly parked cars. The entire touristic center of Amsterdam is located within the A10 ring road of Amsterdam. The entire area within the ring road is a paid parking area, where you need to buy a parking ticket at a ticket machine. In 2018 the parking fees are around 3 to 5 euros per hour in the center of Amsterdam.
Parking garages in Amsterdam city center
Parking in Amsterdam generally costs the most in the city center, but the prices get lower as you move further away from the center. In the most centrally located parking garages rates could be over €5,00 per hour for a short stay. When you buy a night- or day ticket the prices are generally a bit lower.
Parking garages outside of Amsterdam city center
The parking garages that are not in the city center are much cheaper to park your car in. Because of the extensive public transportation network of Amsterdam it is easy and convenient to get to the city center from there. So if you travel to Amsterdam you could save money by parking in one of these garages and taking the tram to the inner city.