elrow,
chauffeured.
The Barcelona production takes over a shipbuilding hall in Noord. elrow arrives with confetti cannons, performers and a production that turns a bare industrial hall into something closer to a carnival. It is one of the loudest, most visual nights of the week and it runs late.
Friday 23 October, at the Kromhouthal.
The heaviest night on paper. Day programmes and night programmes overlap, several rooms run double bills, and crossing town between them is the whole art of it.
elrow arrives with confetti cannons, performers and a production that turns a bare industrial hall into something closer to a carnival. It is one of the loudest, most visual nights of the week and it runs late.
The Kromhouthal sits on the Gedempt Hamerkanaal in Noord, an industrial strip along the water. Nothing about the surroundings tells you a few thousand people are inside.
The IJtunnel and the Johan van Hasseltweg from the centre, ten minutes. From the west of the city the Coentunnel is the better route. The street in front of the hall is wide enough for a proper drop-off.
When elrow finishes, a few thousand people step out onto an industrial street with no rank, no passing taxis and a night bus that is not built for the volume. Booked in advance, your car is one of the ones already parked there.
Gedempt Hamerkanaal, Amsterdam-Noord.
The Kromhouthal is an old shipbuilding hall on the Gedempt Hamerkanaal in Noord, reached through the IJtunnel and along the Johan van Hasseltweg. From the west of the city the Coentunnel is the better door.
Cars stop on the Gedempt Hamerkanaal in front of the hall. The street is wide and the walk is short, but it is an industrial strip with little else around it, which is exactly why hailing anything here at five in the morning is a problem.
The Kromhouthal is an old shipbuilding hall on the Gedempt Hamerkanaal in Noord, reached through the IJtunnel and along the Johan van Hasseltweg. From the west of the city the Coentunnel is the better door. 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.
Cars stop on the Gedempt Hamerkanaal in front of the hall. The street is wide and the walk is short, but it is an industrial strip with little else around it, which is exactly why hailing anything here at five in the morning is a problem.
Yes, and on this night it is the sensible way to do it. When elrow finishes, a few thousand people step out onto an industrial street with no rank, no passing taxis and a night bus that is not built for the volume. Booked in advance, your car is one of the ones already parked there. 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 Kromhouthal, 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.