Route
Oosterdok - Nieuwe Herengracht - Amstel - Prinsengracht - Westerdok
Registration & Rules
Always wanted to participate with your own boat in the Canal Parade? You can! Parties wishing to participate in the Canal Parade are invited to register from 5 January to 2 February 2026 and submit a concept plan with a link to our WorldPride theme #UNITY. On Saturday 14 February during the annual kick-off event, it will be announced which entries are the most beautiful and fit the theme best and will therefore be rewarded with a starting ticket for Saturday 1 August 2026.
Once again, we expect many different types of participants, from small local LGBT foundations, national LGBT advocacy associations, gay hospitality industry, pink networks of multinationals and banks, pink government institutions, political parties, ministries to (media) companies supporting the emancipation struggle of the LGBT community.
Visibility Fund
Despite heavily subsidised starting tickets for LGBTQIA+, the total cost of participation can still be high, sometimes leaving too little money to dress up the boat nicely. However, to properly convey the substantive message and keep the parade interesting for the public, this is a requirement. Therefore, participants in categories 3 and 4 (Rainbow Friends S and L) and 10 and 11(Pride Rainbow Partner L and XL) can appeal to our visibility fund and apply for a financial contribution of up to €5,000. The application should not exceed 50% of the total costs. See the application form at Grant.
No more music along the side
To improve the experience of the event as well as further reduce ambient noise, since 2019 amplified sound along the route on moored boats and on the shore is no longer allowed.
Visitors on boats
Due to the increasing number of visitors wanting to come to Pride by boat and the limited space available for this purpose, visitors coming by boat need a Pride Vignette. If you want to come to Pride with family or friends by boat (up to a maximum of 10 metres) to moor along the shore, it is possible with a Pride Vignette. This way, we prevent parties who do not contribute to the organisation of our Pride from organising their own party during our event and thus also causing the most nuisance. On 1 July 2026, the sale of Pride Vignettes will start via www.botenparade.nl.
Visitors on the quay
To create space for the many visitors on the quay, it will be made car-free and parking will be prohibited on Saturday 1 August from 00:00 to 23:59. Residents with a parking permit will be given the opportunity by the municipality to park their car elsewhere (indoors).
Visitors with disabilities
We have also thought about visitors with disabilities and created a safe environment where they need not be afraid of ending up in the water with their wheelchair. We will cordon off a section of quay for this purpose and will also provide wheelchair-accessible toilets. Important: A maximum of one accompanying person per visitor is allowed.
The registration form will be published here.
Are you coming with a healthcare organisation? If so, please email to [email protected]
Food & drink
Along the route, we have licensed bars at a number of points where beer, wine and soft drinks are for sale and snack wagons with hamburgers, fries, hot dogs, saté or a bone-ham sandwich. The leaseholders help make it possible for us to organise a boat parade. We hope you realise this and will purchase your drinks and snacks from them as much as possible.
Pee on toilet!
Sometimes you have to walk a bit further for a pee cross or queue longer for paid and clean toilets, we are aware of that and try to create as many toilet facilities as possible. We know we don't always manage to do that, but nevertheless, it shows little respect if you stand against a car or pull down your trousers in a porch. Urinating against trees or through mailboxes is also strictly forbidden and will be dealt with. Urinating in public is forbidden in Amsterdam via the General Local Bye-Law (APV) and therefore you will be fined €140. At the bottom of this page you will find a map showing all toilet facilities.
Clean Amsterdam
We understand that hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Pride can leave quite a trail of dirt but want to keep this to a minimum and therefore request everyone to use waste bags and deposit them in one of our waste bins along the route afterwards.
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