Route
Oosterdok - Nieuwe Herengracht - Amstel - Prinsengracht - Westerdok
Participants
Interested parties were invited to register and submit a concept plan from 3 January to 2 February 2025. On 8 February 2025 during our annual kick-off event, it was announced which 80 submissions were the most beautiful and best suited to the 2025 theme (LOVE) and were therefore rewarded with a starting ticket for the Canal Parade on Saturday 2 August 2025.
CANAL PARADE PARTICIPANTS 2025
Download: Price list & Participation rules 2025
Once again, we have 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.
Cost of participating in the Boat Parade
To keep the boat parade affordable for LGBTQIA+ organisations, they have been paying the same amount for their participation (well below cost price) since 2014. We can only do this because other parties pay prices above that for their participation and we allow corporate sponsor boats to participate. The total cost of the boat parade comes to around €730,000. Of this, €200,000 is covered by subsidy from the City of Amsterdam and €150,000 by income from pleasure boats along the route. Without participating Pride Business Club Members, the price for participation per boat would come to €380,000/ 80 = €4,750.
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, this is required to properly convey the substantive message and keep the parade interesting for the public. 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 who want to come to the Pride by boat and the limited space available for this, visitors who come by boat need a Pride Vignette. If you want to go to the Pride by boat to moor along the side with family or friends, you can do so with a boat of up to 10 metres. This prevents parties who do not contribute to the organisation of our Pride from having their own party at our event and thus also causing the most inconvenience. On July 1, 2025, the sale of the 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 2 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 deadline for signing up has already closed.
Are you coming with a healthcare organisation? If so, please email [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.
Aftermovie Canal Parade 2024
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