Creative Director Anita shares Amsterdam tips, from reading nude to tea in a 'UFO,' and choosing boat dinners in her Travel Playbook.

Amsterdam

"The Sauna Deco is an iconic wellness space in Amsterdam. It’s quite old school, but really special because it has all this art deco design inside. You have all these different temperature saunas in this communal space and you've got to be totally nude — which of course was a shock when I first moved to Amsterdam, but you kind of get used to it and get over yourself."

Sauna Deco

"Another favorite is Hotel De Goudfazant. It’s a restaurant in the north of Amsterdam in a very cool, oversized hangar industrial space. Get a water taxi there from Central Station in Amsterdam and it takes you all the way to the restaurant. It's quite a brasserie, simple dining."

Hotel De Goudfazant

"Droog is a shop, a cafe and, most recently, also a hotel with a couple of rooms. They feature the latest and greatest in avant–garde Dutch design. They also have products you can buy, like three–legged chairs or really odd, beautiful, unconventional design."

@droog Amsterdam

"Vondelpark is the biggest, most central park Amsterdam and it’s really worth going. It’s got a very historical relevance with the counterculture movement in the 60s and 70s — everyone would congregate and take mushrooms. There are flower gardens and a cafe in the middle called the Blue Tea Room, which looks like a UFO. You can go in there, get some fresh mint tea and hang out."

Vondelpark

"The EYE Museum is a relatively new space across a body of water called the River IJ. It’s a really amazing film museum and cinema right on the water and has a really funky, weird architectural design. You can go there to watch movies but they also have film festivals and exhibitions."

EYE Filmmuseum

"Rika is a fashion boutique in the center of the Nine Streets, which are shopping streets in Amsterdam that are nice to explore. It has really lovely knitwear and designs that feel to me like classic Amsterdam — kind of elevated but wearable fashion."

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