Luton to Amsterdam Flight Time, and 9 Things in 9 Hours
1h 25m flight, 9.1 hours in the city, £124.65 all in. Go midweek, £95.00 on Wed 25 Nov against £217.00 on the Sunday.
The Luton to Amsterdam flight time is about 1h 25m, which buys you 9.1 hours on the ground, and that's a proper day rather than a dash. The catch is the price, because Amsterdam never really goes cheap. Here's the day we've costed and nine things to fill it with.
The numbers first
Fri 1 Jan, out 06:15 from Luton with easyJet, lands 08:40, in the city by 09:37. You leave the city at 18:43, fly at 21:00 and you're back at Luton for 21:10. £124.65 for the whole thing, flights and the ground spend together.
Two things eat your morning. Immigration at Schiphol is a 40-minute job, the worst of any route we price, and the airport is 15km out. Even with both, 9.1 hours is more city time than Berlin, Porto or Faro give you from London.
Nine things for nine hours
- Albert Cuypmarkt for breakfast. Street food, cheese stalls, prices on signs, no tourist mark-up
- The free ferries to Noord from behind Centraal. They cost nothing and they're the best view of the IJ you'll get
- The Begijnhof courtyard, tucked off the Spui and almost silent in the middle of everything
- Museumplein, whether or not you go into anything. The lawn, the pond and the sign
- A canal loop on foot rather than a boat. The Herengracht and Keizersgracht side by side is the postcard
- The Jordaan, for the bit of Amsterdam that still feels like people live in it
- The Nine Streets if anyone with you wants to shop
- Vondelpark or Oosterpark when your legs have had enough
- One brown cafe before you leave. Sit down, order something, watch the bikes
When to go, and when not to
The cheapest November return out of Luton is £95.00 on Wed 25 Nov, then £106.00 on Mon 23 and Tue 24 Nov and £111.00 on Wed 18 Nov. Midweek is the whole game here. Sun 29 Nov is £217.00 for the same flight, so a weekend Amsterdam day trip is money you could spend on two Dublins.
Fares checked 8 Nov.
Is the daylight a problem?
A bit. On 1 Jan you get 7.8 hours of it, sunrise 08:51 and sunset 16:37, so roughly the last two hours of your day are dark. Amsterdam handles that better than most cities, the canals and the lit bridges are the reason people go in winter in the first place.
If you'd rather see the full write-up with the stops mapped, we've done a day trip to Amsterdam from London in more detail, and the live prices are on the Luton day trips board.
Day trips in this article
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