Where to buy tickets?
Tickets for public transport are sold at many locations in and around Amsterdam. Where to buy which ticket: GVB Tickets & Info Stationsplein, opposite Central Station:
all tickets. Open: Monday to Friday, 7am - 9pm and Saturday
and Sunday, 10am - 6pm.
GVB Tickets & Info metrostation Central Station:
all tickets. Open: Monday to Friday, 7am - 6pm.
GVB Tickets & Info Bijlmer ArenA station: all tickets.
Open: Monday to Friday, 7am - 6pm and Saturday, 10am - 6pm.
GVB Tickets & Info Lelylaan station: all tickets.
Open: Monday to Friday: 7am - 6pm.
GVB Tickets & Info metrostation Weesperplein: all tickets.
Open: Monday to Friday: 7am - 6pm and Saturday: 10am - 6pm.
GVB Tickets & Info Zuid station: all tickets.
Open: Monday to Friday, 7am - 6pm.
Metro stations: ticket machines (strip tickets, single journey tickets up to two zones, 24-hours tickets, 48-hours tickets, 72-hours tickets and single nightbus tickets).
Advance sales: post offices (strip tickets and 1-5 star weekly and monthly season tickets), Albert Heijn supermarkets (strip tickets only) and most tobacconists in Amsterdam (strip tickets and 1-3 star weekly and monthly season tickets).
Using your postal code you can find the nearest sales outlet on the VBN website.
On trams and buses: drivers and conductors sell 2- and 3-striptickets and 24 hours tickets. Trams on route 5 and light-rail trains on route 51 have machines selling 24-hours tickets and single tickets for up to two zones.
Travel tips
- Prepurchased strip tickets are significantly cheaper than buying your ticket on the tram or bus. An eight-strip ticket costs about the same as a 15-strip ticket purchased in advance at a GVB outlet, post office, Albert Heijn supermarket or tobacconist. That means almost twice as much travel for the same price.
- Reduced fare tickets (for 4-11 year olds and people aged 65 or older) are only available when purchased in advance.
- Reduction entitlement: as well as holders of the Pas 65, people aged 65 or older with a valid identity document are entitled to reduced-fare travel.
- Children up to the age of 4 travel for free!