Open Boat: Amsterdam Light Festival Canal Cruise 🌟 Smidtje Canal Cruises Amsterdam

Open Boat: Amsterdam Light Festival Canal Cruise 🌟

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Boarding location: Anne Frank House

Have the best views of the Amsterdam Light Festival with our canal cruise on an Open Boat! Full 360 view, perfect for making the best & most aesthetic pictures of the light artworks 📷 Get ready for a unique night! Board at the Anne Frank House and sail comfortably during our 75-minute cruise. The official audio guide in Dutch and English tells you everything about the light artworks.

The theme of the fourteenth edition of the Amsterdam Light Festival is Legacy. Twenty light artworks by international artists show what we preserve and leave behind. From monumental installations to personal stories. The festival runs from November 27, 2025, to January 18, 2026.

With rain, you’ll be transfered to a covered and heated boat.

From €29,75 per ticket

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What is Amsterdam Light Festival?

Amsterdam Light Festival is an art festival featuring unique light art that you can experience every year by boat, bicycle, or on foot. The organization’s mission is “to use the universal language of light art in public spaces to connect and enrich people.”

The theme of the fourteenth edition of the art festival is Legacy. How do we want to be remembered? Twenty light artworks by international artists show what we preserve and leave behind. From monumental installations to personal stories. The temporary installations disappear, but remain as memories. Find more information about the Amsterdam Light Festival here.

Including

75-minute cruise
Open boat
Official Amsterdam Light Festival Route
Audio guide in Dutch and English
Covered boarding location at the Anne Frank House
Friendly skippers with unique stories
With rain, you’ll be transfered to a covered and heated boat

Excluding

Drinks and snacks (can be purchased in advance at the café next the boarding location)

FAQs

On busy days and during the weekend, especially during the Christmas holidays, the cruise may run late. Please take this into account if you have any reservations after the cruise.

We recommend that you arrive at the boarding location at least half an hour in advance. Opposite our jetty is our café, “Smidtje Canal Café de Dialoog.” Here you can wait indoors and stay dry in case of rain, and use the restroom. You can also buy snacks and drinks to take with you on the cruise. It is not possible to buy these on board.

This is not possible on board. However, opposite our jetty is our café, “Smidtje Canal Café Dialoog.” Here you can buy snacks and drinks to take with you on the cruise. You can also wait here in the dry and use the toilet if it rains.

To board, you have to climb a few steps. Therefore, it can be difficult for people with reduced mobility to board.