What Is The Average Cost Of A Hotel Room In Amsterdam?

Amsterdam has no single average hotel price, and any page that hands you one number is hiding the spread behind it. The budget hotels on this site's roster, 12 of them, show a median from-price of €54.5 per night for the lowest room for two guests. That is a budget-hotel figure, not a city-wide average across every hotel in town, and it moves with the calendar: the same band of rooms runs a €60 median in December and a €123 median in June. Here is what the numbers actually say, month by month, tax by tax. Since your bed is the biggest swing factor in any Amsterdam budget, the full breakdown of how expensive Amsterdam really is to visit shows how the rest of the costs stack up against it.

What Is The Average Cost Of A Hotel Room In Amsterdam?

The honest number from this site's own data is a median of €54.5 per night for the lowest room for two guests across 12 budget hotels on the roster. That is a from-price, the cheapest sampled rate, not a fixed price and not an average of every hotel in the city. The month you pick matters as much as the hotel you pick.

To be precise about what that €54.5 is and is not: it is the median of the lowest sampled prices across the 12 budget hotels tracked here, each price being the lowest room shown for two guests. It is not an average of all hotels in Amsterdam, because this roster deliberately tracks cheap places to sleep. The luxury segment, the canal-house boutiques and the design flagships do not sit in this data at all, and they would pull any true city-wide average far higher.

Within the budget band itself the spread is wide. MEININGER Hotel Amsterdam City West shows rooms for two guests from €28 a night, the cheapest budget hotel on the roster. At the other end, Hello I'm Local in Haarlem shows from €68. Between them sit most of the practical options a budget traveller actually books, including Hotel2Stay in Nieuw-West, from €56 for two guests and rated 8.8/10 across 3352 reviews with a kitchen listed, and XO Hotels Blue Square, from €54 with a Google rating of 4/5 across 3196 Google reviews. Those two sit almost exactly on the median, which is why they make useful reference points when you are judging whether a quoted rate is fair.

Prices vary by date, so treat every figure here as a floor rather than a promise. Before booking, check the dates and room types on each stay's live listing.

If you want the fuller picture of where the cheap rooms concentrate, the budget hotels guide walks through the whole roster, and the hub at budget hotels lists every option with its current from-price.

What Changes The Price From Month To Month?

The month series shows the budget-hotel median for a room for two guests running from €60 in December up to €123 in June, with €91 in October and €100 in May in between. November through February is the cheap window, with medians of €74, €60, €61.5 and €65. Spring and early summer carry the highest medians, driven by King's Day, the Keukenhof season and Pride.

The month series on this site samples one Wednesday night per month across the roster, taking the lowest room for two guests at each budget hotel. A month where fewer than four properties returned a price shows no figure, which is why September is blank in the data. What the table shows is a city with a deep winter trough and a high summer plateau, and the gap between them is enormous: the December median of €60 and the June median of €123 differ by more than double.

Two events deserve a special warning. Amsterdam Dance Event runs 21 to 25 October 2026, and the site's own scan shows hostel beds at their dearest that week, with the budget-hotel median at €91 and from-prices starting at €67. King's Day 2027 falls on Tuesday 27 April 2027, with the King attending the celebration in Lelystad, and the April median of €96 reflects it. If your dates are flexible, shifting a trip from April into January can cut the median room rate by a third.

The full month-by-month breakdown, including the hostel column, sits in the hotel prices by month guide.

What Gets Added On Top Of The Room Price?

Two charges stack on top of the listed rate: Amsterdam's tourist tax of 12.5% of the overnight price before VAT, and lodging VAT, which is 21% in the Netherlands from 1 January 2026. Several hostels state plainly on their listings that the tourist tax is not in the displayed price and is paid on arrival, so budget roughly an eighth again on top of what the listing shows.

The tourist tax is set out on the City of Amsterdam's municipal taxes page: 12.5% of the overnight price excluding VAT, charged to the guest by the host, and it applies to hotels, hostels, guesthouses, apartments, campsites and short-stay rentals alike. There is no budget-hotel exemption. On a €60 room that is another seventh or so of the rate again at check-in or on your final bill.

Whether the displayed price already includes it varies by listing, and the only honest answer is to read the small print. The listings this site fetched state it directly for several hostels: Stayokay Amsterdam Oost says tourist tax per night is not included and is paid on arrival, and the Flying Pig Downtown listing says a city tax of 12.5% will be added to your balance. Where a listing says nothing, ask before you book rather than assuming either way.

The VAT change matters for anyone comparing 2026 prices with trips they took a few years ago. Lodging VAT rose from 9% to 21% on 1 January 2026, per the Belastingdienst's lodging VAT page, and it is part of why current rates sit above older figures people remember. For more on the tax stack, see the tourist tax and hotel fees guide and the post on why the tourist tax is so high.

Wondering whether that budget room is worth booking for your dates? Free cancellation is listed on many roster stays, so you can lock a rate early and re-check it closer to travel.

Why Are Budget Rooms Cheaper Outside The Centre?

Distance from Centraal station is the strongest price lever on the roster. Nieuw-West, 4.5 km out, shows five stays with a median of €54 a night, while the four Centrum stays run a €18.5 median that reflects hostel beds mixed in, and West shows €40 as its lowest. The Schiphol area, 15.7 km out, shows a €48 median. Going one or two tram stops beyond the canal ring reliably cuts the room rate.

The neighbourhood table mixes hostel beds and hotel rooms inside each area, so read each row with its stay count in mind. Oost, with five stays, shows a lowest per-night figure of €15 and a median of €16, numbers pulled down by dorm beds. West, three stays, starts at €40. Noord shows €17 from a single stay, which is thin: one property, one price. The pattern that holds is that the outer districts carry the affordable hotel rooms while the centre carries the affordable dorm beds.

Two of the budget hotels that illustrate the trade sit in Nieuw-West. Amsterdam Teleport Hotel shows rooms for two guests from €62, rated 7.6/10 across 7264 reviews, with dorm, double, twin and family room types and breakfast and a kitchen listed. It is 4.65 km straight-line from Centraal, a short metro ride rather than a walk.

Hotel New Kit in West shows from €68 for two guests, with a Google rating of 4.2/5 across 987 Google reviews, and sits 4.2 km from Centraal. Both are cheaper than equivalent centre-adjacent options would be, and both trade convenience for price in the standard Amsterdam way.

If that trade interests you, the staying outside Amsterdam guide covers Haarlem, Zaandam and Amstelveen, and the blog post on staying inside or outside central Amsterdam weighs the two directly.

What Is The Average Cost Of A Trip To Amsterdam?

Working from the figures on this site: a budget room for two at the €54.5 median, 12.5% tourist tax on top, and transport costs like the €5.50 NS train from Schiphol, sleeping costs for two people sit well under €40 each per night before food and activities. A hostel bed from €12 to €17 pushes the sleeping cost far lower. The total trip cost then depends almost entirely on what you do, not where you sleep.

Run the arithmetic and the accommodation line stops being scary. Take a €60 December room for two: with tourist tax added, the nightly total lands near €65. Split between two travellers, each pays a bit over €30 for the night. Add the Schiphol train, 24 minutes and from €5.50 per person each way per the NS route page, and a GVB day ticket at €10.00 covers city transport for a day. Sleeping and moving are then covered by a modest sum per traveller each day before a single meal.

The cheaper route down is the hostel one. The median hostel from-price across the roster's 12 hostels is €17 per night, and the cheapest bed on the entire roster is €12 at Flying Pig Uptown, the lowest bed or room shown for one guest. For a fuller breakdown of the floor options, read the cheapest way to stay in Amsterdam and the hostels hub.

One planning note: a late night out has a transport cost of its own. The GVB night bus is a separate single-ride ticket at €5.70, valid 1.5 hours from first check-in and only at night, so a bed far from the centre costs a few euro more on the way home.

What Is The Average Cost Of An Airbnb In Amsterdam?

This site's roster carries no verified price for holiday apartments, so no honest average can be printed here. What is verifiable are the rules: Amsterdam allows holiday rental of a whole home or houseboat for at most 30 nights a year, 15 in part of Centrum and De Pijp, to at most 4 guests, with a registration number shown in the advert. Scarcity from that cap, plus the same 12.5% tourist tax, shapes what listings charge.

The holiday-let rules on the amsterdam.nl holiday rental page are strict by design. Hosts rent their whole home, not a spare room, they must be absent during the stay, every rental must be reported before guests arrive, and a registration number must appear in the advert. A proposal to lower the cap to 15 nights in the Helmersbuurt from 1 January 2027 is open for objections, which would make it the ninth neighbourhood with the tighter limit.

For the comparison between a hotel bed and a rental, including the rules and the tax, the dedicated Airbnb and cheap apartments guide and the post on hotel versus Airbnb costs do the work in full. As a rule of thumb from the hotel side: when a rental for two costs more than the €54.5 budget-hotel median plus tax, the hotel is usually the simpler buy, and rentals shine for groups of three or four where the four-guest cap and a kitchen genuinely help.

There is also a supply-side reason hotel prices behave the way they do. Under the city's Hotelbeleid 2024, a new hotel can only open if an old one closes with capacity unchanged, and hostels count as hotels under the policy, as the policy document states. That effectively freezes the number of hotel beds, which is the background to the post on why Amsterdam hotels are so expensive.

If a budget hotel is the route you want, Cheap Hotels In Amsterdam tracks the from-prices, month medians and neighbourhood figures used throughout this piece, refreshed on the live listings.

Common Questions About Hotel Room Costs In Amsterdam

What Is The Average Cost Of A Hotel Room In Amsterdam?

Across the 12 budget hotels on this site's roster, the median from-price is €54.5 per night for the lowest room for two guests. That is a budget-hotel figure, not a city-wide average of all hotels, and it varies by month from a €60 median in December to €123 in June.

What Is The Average Cost Of A Trip To Amsterdam?

On budget figures: a room for two at the €54.5 median plus 12.5% tourist tax keeps sleeping costs under €40 per person per night, and a hostel bed from €12 to €17 cuts that further. Add the €5.50 Schiphol train and a €10 GVB day ticket, and the rest of your budget goes to food and activities.

What Is The Average Cost Of An Airbnb In Amsterdam?

This site's roster carries no verified holiday-apartment prices, so no average can honestly be printed. Rentals are capped at 30 nights a year per home, 15 in part of Centrum and De Pijp, for at most 4 guests, and the same 12.5% tourist tax applies.

Is The Tourist Tax Included In The Listed Hotel Price?

It varies by listing. Several hostels on this roster state on their listings that the 12.5% tourist tax is not included and is paid on arrival or added to the balance. Where a listing says nothing, check before booking.

When Is The Cheapest Month For A Hotel Room In Amsterdam?

December shows the lowest budget-hotel median in the month series, €60 per night for a room for two, with November, January and February close behind at €74, €61.5 and €65. October, April, May and June carry the highest medians.