2026 Amsterdam Travel Cost Study — The Best Travel Destinations, https://the-best-travel-destinations.com/things-to-do-in-amsterdam/is-amsterdam-expensive/ Published 2026-10-30 by The Best Travel Destinations editorial team. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to reuse, also commercially, with credit and a link: Source: 2026 Amsterdam Travel Cost Study, The Best Travel Destinations, https://the-best-travel-destinations.com/things-to-do-in-amsterdam/is-amsterdam-expensive/ (CC BY 4.0) hotel-prices.csv our measurement: 795 prices of 90 hotels on Google Hotels, 20 nights (November 2026 to August 2027), 2 adults, one room, read 2026-10-30 column "stars": as Google Hotels shows it, empty or 0 = no star class shown (59% of the prices) column "price_band": each hotel's band for the whole year by its median price in this sample: budget up to €160, mid-range up to €250, upscale above; the study compares months within a band left out: 404 prices of 88 listings: 378 prices of hotels more than 25 km from Amsterdam's centre (Google's list mixed in hotels in other countries) and 26 prices of hostels, multi-bedroom flats and houseboats (not a hotel room for two) activity-prices.csv our measurement: GetYourGuide "from" prices, read 2026-10-29 cited-prices.csv meal and rental-car prices published by others, quoted word for word with source and date official-prices.csv tourist tax and public transport fares from official sources