parking a car in Amsterdam

The problem with taking a UK-hired car to Holland isn't that the car hire companies won't let you (they LOVE it) or that it's difficult driving on the wrong side of the road with a car configured for driving the proper way (it isn't. Honest. Especially with two of you, and especially in Benelux. I've been doing it for decades).It's cost. And you're going to have a cost problem however you handle this. If you hire a car in Britain and take it abroad, you MUST tell the hire company, or your insurance is invalidated. And the company will charge you a whopping daily supplement (which is why most of them like your taking the car abroad so much). On top of that, taking a car on a ferry or through the tunnel, especially between March and September, is going to cost a fair amount: you're going to have to surf the special offers very hard to get much change out of £200 return even for Dover-Calais.Against that, I've never found parking in central Amsterdam a problem. By the standards of m...