Kara-Lis Coverdale & Lia Kohl,
chauffeured.
Ambient and experimental work in the Concertgebouw. One of the week’s quiet surprises: experimental and ambient work programmed into the Concertgebouw, in a hall built for an orchestra and famous for how it sounds when nobody is making very much noise at all.
Wednesday 21 October, at the Het Concertgebouw.
Opening night. The conference has barely finished its first day when the first rooms fill, and the city moves from panels to parties in the space of an hour.
One of the week’s quiet surprises: experimental and ambient work programmed into the Concertgebouw, in a hall built for an orchestra and famous for how it sounds when nobody is making very much noise at all.
The audience is seated, the start time is exact and the evening ends early enough to go somewhere else afterwards — which a good many people do.
From the canal belt it is the Van Baerlestraat, ten minutes. From the Zuidas hotels or the ring, the A10-Zuid and the S108. The Concertgebouwplein has space to stop at the steps, which is rare this close to the Museumplein.
A seated concert ends on the minute, and the square fills and clears quickly. Held by the hour, your car simply waits — and takes you on to whatever the rest of the night holds.
Concertgebouwplein, Amsterdam-Zuid.
Het Concertgebouw stands on the Concertgebouwplein at the top of the Museumplein in Zuid, reached from the Van Baerlestraat. From the ring it is the A10-Zuid and the S108.
We set down on the Concertgebouwplein at the front steps. It is one of the easier arrivals in the city — wide pavement, short walk, and space for a car to wait a moment while people get out.
Het Concertgebouw stands on the Concertgebouwplein at the top of the Museumplein in Zuid, reached from the Van Baerlestraat. From the ring it is the A10-Zuid and the S108. Your chauffeur checks the roads before setting off rather than when he arrives, and the price is fixed when you book, whatever the traffic does.
We set down on the Concertgebouwplein at the front steps. It is one of the easier arrivals in the city — wide pavement, short walk, and space for a car to wait a moment while people get out.
Yes, and on this night it is the sensible way to do it. A seated concert ends on the minute, and the square fills and clears quickly. Held by the hour, your car simply waits — and takes you on to whatever the rest of the night holds. Book the return at the same time as the outward ride, or keep one car and chauffeur for the whole night by the hour, from €65 an hour in Business Class with a two-hour minimum.
Schiphol to any address in Amsterdam is a fixed €90 in Business Class, €125 in the seven-seat Van Class and €140 in First Class — taxes included, per car, with the flight tracked and a chauffeur waiting inside the arrivals hall. Going back to Schiphol the fixed prices are €80, €85 and €90.
The Van Class takes up to seven passengers and seven bags in one car, with captain chairs and walk-in headroom. For a larger party dispatch stages several cars to arrive together at Het Concertgebouw, with one contact for the whole group rather than a separate booking per car.
Message dispatch on WhatsApp and the pickup time moves. It is one number, answered around the clock in English, and once a chauffeur is assigned you have his line too. There is no surge pricing at four in the morning — the fare was agreed when you booked.