Amsterdam or Paris,
for a family weekend?
Both fly nonstop from Boston year-round, which makes this less about the flight and more about the shape of the trip: a shorter city-plus-day-trip pairing, or a full week built around one home base.
A short trip, or a full week.
Our Amsterdam guide is built as a shorter trip by design: fly in, train to Bruges for frites and chocolate, fly out. Paris is one of our fully fine-tuned guides, with a complete one-week home-base plan and two-week day trips for a longer stay.
Match the trip to the time you have.
If the trip is a shorter break, Amsterdam and Bruges is built for exactly that. If the trip is a full school vacation week, Paris has the depth to fill it without running out of things worth doing.
What families ask us.
Is Amsterdam or Paris easier for a shorter trip?
Amsterdam, slightly, because our full guide pairs it with a train to Bruges rather than a full week of a single city, which suits a shorter trip better.
Which has a bigger payoff for a full week, Amsterdam or Paris?
Paris. It is one of our fully fine-tuned guides with a complete one-week home-base plan and two-week day trips, built for a longer stay than Amsterdam and Bruges is.
Which is cheaper, Amsterdam or Paris?
Paris runs $4,500 to $7,000 for a week, one of our lowest published ranges. Amsterdam and Bruges is a shorter trip by design, so the two are not directly comparable dollar for dollar.
Do both fly nonstop from Boston?
Yes. Delta, KLM and JetBlue fly Amsterdam nonstop year-round; Air France, Delta and JetBlue fly Paris nonstop, multiple times daily.