GVB operates public transport services 24 hours a day. After the regular daytime services end, a special network of night buses operates through the night. This has its own fares structure and tickets.
Prices in 2010
Night bus 1 ride € 3.50
Night bus 12 rides € 25.00
(Each journey is valid for 1.5 hours, including transfer to other GVB nightbuses.)
Night bus tickets are available only as OV-chipkaart products, at GVB Tickets & Info and from the Ticket Vending Machines, see the page OV-chipkaart travel products.
Nightbus region ticket: € 6.00
This ticket is valid for two hours on all GVB night buses and the Arriva and Connexxion night buses in the Amsterdam region. During those two hours you can transfer to night buses of GVB, Arriva and Connexxion.
You can purchase this region ticket from the night bus driver.
Also valid on the nightbuses:
Star season tickets (weekly, monthly, annual) valid in the Amsterdam zone area, GVB season tickets (monthly, annual), Schiphol Forenskaart, NS season tickets (monthly, annual) with local/regional supplement valid in the Amsterdam zone area and NS OV annual tickets (for all public transport in the Netherlands).
Not valid on the nightbuses:
GVB 1-hour tickets, student tickets and the E-purse on your OV-chipcard are not valid on GVB nightbuses.