Anne Frank house ticket purchase guide update

Good morning to you too,
I'm a little groggy this morning as well after setting an alarm last night to book for Saturday, July 13. My refresh was really slow and i wasn't able to get dates available loaded until probably 2 minutes after the hour. I wasn't able to get 4 tickets to the 30 minute pre-presentation tickets for my desired 11am, but then tried every half hour after that until I got 3:45pm. They all showed that there was 6-20 spots available on my screen, but then weren't available once I chose that time.

Either way, all good, and glad I got up. Without wanting the presentation before, I could have essentially chosen any timeslot, but those ones are definitely not something you can sleep on.
Cheers,

For those that missed out buying tickets for a planned trip, be sure to also check your for tickets on the Tuesday morning the couple weeks before your travel dates. Out of curiosity I checked for tickets and next week (June 3 - 9) shows a few tickets available for regular museum visit (no intro lecture) for those dates. It is not a guarantee you will get tickets last minute but it does merit a try. BTW I am in Pacific time zone and checked at 8:30 a.m. my time = 5:30 p.m. Amsterdam time, but I suspect all of those tickets will be gone in short order so I would definitely check earlier in the day if you have a preferred time slot.

Thanks for this info. I went online at 3:50 EST, also opened my phone to the website, and my husband logged on. At about 4:05 am, my husband got white boxes for tickets, but I did not. I kept trying, but I think that I was refreshing incorrectly. I wish that I had practiced refreshing yesterday!

I was able to get 2 tickets on 7/10/24 at 19:45. Not an ideal time since I will be with my barely 16-year-old granddaughter, who I am taking to Amsterdam for her bday. We are doing the intro and she is super sensitive, .... hopefully she will have time to absorb it before bedtime. She is very interested in the holocaust after reading Night as an assignment in the 8th grade. We are also going to Krakow.

I am so glad that I can take her to the Anne Frank house!

SylviaS

SylviaS- has your granddaughter read Diary of Anne Frank recently? I would recommend to anyone who hasn't read it recently to reread before a visit. I read it when I was young, and again in my 30s, leading to a long desire to visit. Rereading it at 60, just before visiting made the visit so much more impactful and easy to remember the layout and the rooms where things in the book happened. Warn her that there is no furniture in the annex. That is how her father wanted it left. But do look for pictures in each room that were taken at one brief point when they furnished it as it was. Although it is difficult knowing what happened to her, for me it was not as hard as reading about the camps in Night.

I set my alarm for 3:59 and was online clicking for tickets at 4 am exactly. I got the 30-minute introductory session for 12:45 on July 12. I wanted 11:30, but it was sold out within seconds somehow. I was completely done with the tickets purchased by 4:04am. I then went back to see what was still available and for the 30-minute intro there was not much. I think 4 spots left for the whole day!

My friend bought tickets at 8:45 am though for Saturday, July 13. She had to do a time later in the day (5:30, I think) but there were still a few options for her. It seems there were more introductory sessions on Saturday than during the week.

How times change! Of course, it is a long time ago now, but my first visit to the Anne Frank House was in 1978. My two travel companions and I stumbled on the house - I knew it was somewhere in Amsterdam, but hadn't researched the address. Mid-afternoon, a late June weekday. We walked in and were the only visitors.

Good luck to all those still hoping for entry. I can still vividly remember that visit 45 years ago. Very moving.

I messed up, counted weeks wrong, and missed out. We needed tickets for July 11 around 11am. So sad. I have seen it, I really only need one ticket for my 16 year old. Should I check in every Tuesday 4am? Or periodically over the days? Feel terrible, but we will be back, this is just a layover.

In the last months the Anne Frank house also released tickets for the next week.
So on Tuesday July 2, they should release additional tickets for the week of July 8 up to and including July 14.
Tickets are released at around 10:00 am local time in Amsterdam. Don’t give up if tickets become available immediately at 10:00 am. On some days the tickets are released a couple of minutes later.

Ani,
Dutchtraveler has great advice! A second chance. Hope it works out for your family! We managed to get tickets for last month, as I logged on at the exact time they went on sale for the week I needed. There was apparently a computer glitch and ended up with a time that wasn't perfect, but we made it work. It's a challenge to get tickets but I noticed on the website last month, exactly what Dutchtraveler is telling you. Good luck!

Thank you all!! I will check. I looked, and there were tickets available with the Dutch introduction program, so we thankfully have them now! Am hoping they allow us to arrive late, or that there is an app that can translate as they speak. I feel badly taking them from someone who would have enjoyed it in Dutch, but I can donate them back if I find tickets in English.

Ani, You cannot turn tickets back in. There's no refunds, but that's not what I'm referring to. If you have extra tickets you can't use; they won't take them back, and will suggest you find someone to give them to. I had an extra ticket last month, and they said I could give it to someone and the name didn't have to match, but they don't/won't get involved.