Six to eight teams, one phone each, 60 to 120 minutes on foot. €5 per pupil, teachers free.
More than 3,000 classes and groups have played Questo together.
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We had a great day on Monday, thanks in large part to Questo. Thank you so much for everything, from the clear communication beforehand to a very smooth user experience on the day itself.
We are a group of language students and we played the game with our teacher: a great and fun way to practise, and learn interesting stuff about our city that we didn't know.
Quests for classes
Amsterdam's school quests are walked on foot through the old centre and along the waterfront: the canal ring and Dam Square, the old Jewish quarter around Waterlooplein, the Plantage, the Jordaan, Vondelpark and, across the IJ by free ferry, Amsterdam Noord. For Key Stage 2, Canals of Amsterdam: Wonders of The City starts on Dam Square and passes the Begijnhof and the Westerkerk. Key Stage 3 classes can play Jewish Amsterdam: The Old Quarter or Amsterdam Shadows: The Plantage Resistance, which covers the German occupation and the deportations. Older pupils and sixth form can take Ghosts of Amsterdam, past the old Rasphuis gate and the Spinhuis lane. The quests cover ages 8 to 18.
55 min · 2.5 km · 9 stops
Starts at Pancakes Amsterdam
Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder and the Oude Kerk: Catholic worship in an attic church in a Protestant city
105 min · 2.4 km · 11 stops
Starts at Dam Square
Begijnhof: a quiet courtyard community inside the old city
105 min · 2.2 km · 11 stops
Starts at Jewish Museum and the Arsenal
Portuguese Synagogue, Uilenburgersjoel and the Jewish Museum: Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jewish life in the old quarter
82 min · 4.3 km · 12 stops
Starts at Arrival in Amsterdam
NDSM, the crane and Lasloods: shipbuilding on the IJ
170 min · 1.6 km · 12 stops
Starts at The Dock Worker
The Dock Worker and the Resistance Museum: resistance to the German occupation
100 min · 1.9 km · 10 stops
Starts at Rembrandthuis
Rembrandthuis and Sint-Antoniussluis: the painter's house and neighbourhood
90 min · 3.2 km · 15 stops
Starts at Beursplein
90 min · 2.7 km · 12 stops
Starts at 1 Paviljoen Vondelpark
213 min · 4.7 km · 15 stops
Starts at Hotel Prins Hendrik
Rasphuispoort and Spinhuissteeg: houses of correction and punishment in early modern Amsterdam
Teams of 3 to 5 pupils share one phone; for under-14s, one adult per 2 to 3 teams with agreed checkpoints, 14 to 18 per school policy.
Teams keep off the red cycle paths.
Dam Square is about 750 m from Centraal Station, so the centre is walkable.
Registered primary schools can pre-order the GVB Scholendagkaart (€2.60 per child); others buy the app-only GVB Group day ticket, five people each.
About half the city's mapped street toilets are urinals only, so seated public toilets are scarce.
Plan stops at Centraal Station, museums and department stores, where you will often have to pay.
Packed lunches work well on the lawns of Museumplein or in Vondelpark next door, and the underground Albert Heijn on Van Baerlestraat covers forgotten lunches.
Take all litter with you.
The free Civic Guards Gallery, a covered walkway between Kalverstraat and the Begijnhof, and the OBA Oosterdok public library are good indoor stops.
If rain spoils the day, replay the quest free within 30 days.
Caution: Pickpockets work Centraal Station, Damrak, Dam Square and the crowded trams, so each team keeps its phone in a zipped pocket or a bag worn at the front between clues.
The VOC headquarters at the Oost-Indisch Huis, harbour towers such as the Montelbaanstoren and the Schreierstoren, guildhalls, and Rembrandt's house and neighbourhood.
The planned canal ring, the old harbour along the IJ and the former shipyard at NDSM in Noord. Pupils also read a city map and get their bearings with a ferry crossing between two banks.
Teams read and follow written instructions under time pressure. The Red Light quest can be played in French, German, Spanish or Dutch. Ghosts, Rembrandt and Ship-Sinking are also available in Dutch.
Memorials such as the Homomonument and the Holocaust Names Memorial, how a city remembers persecution, and shared decision-making in small teams with one phone.
Price and terms
No minimum group, no time slot.
A class of 30 on one quest: €150.
Choose a questTell us the quest or city, the class size and the dates. We send an invoice to the school.
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