Eric Prydz,
chauffeured.
The Gashouder show that sells out the fastest every year. Of all the rooms in use during the week, the Gashouder on this particular night is the one people plan their entire trip around. Production built for the dome, a single artist, and a room that holds several thousand people who all want to be at the front.
Thursday 22 October, at the Gashouder.
The night the week finds its level. Long sets, the first of the big warehouse programmes, and a schedule that starts to run past the last metro.
Of all the rooms in use during the week, the Gashouder on this particular night is the one people plan their entire trip around. Production built for the dome, a single artist, and a room that holds several thousand people who all want to be at the front.
It also means the doors open and close in concentrated bursts. Getting in early is worth something, and getting out without standing in the Westerpark for half an hour is worth rather more.
The Haarlemmerweg from the centre, the A10-West and the S103 from the ring, and the Klönneplein gate at the end of either. Allow the few minutes it takes to walk the grounds; the gas holder is not at the entrance.
The Westergasfabriek empties into a park at an hour when the park is dark and the Haarlemmerweg has no taxis on it. Your chauffeur is at the gate you came in through, and the first thing you do after the last track is send one message.
Westergasfabriek, Westerpark.
The Gashouder is the round brick gas holder on the Westergasfabriek grounds in the Westerpark, entered from the Haarlemmerweg. Coming from the centre it is a short run along the Haarlemmerweg; from the ring, the A10-West and the S103.
Cars stop at the Klönneplein entrance to the grounds; the gas holder itself is a few minutes on foot across the site, which is unlit in places and worth knowing about before you wear the wrong shoes.
The Gashouder is the round brick gas holder on the Westergasfabriek grounds in the Westerpark, entered from the Haarlemmerweg. Coming from the centre it is a short run along the Haarlemmerweg; from the ring, the A10-West and the S103. 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 at the Klönneplein entrance to the grounds; the gas holder itself is a few minutes on foot across the site, which is unlit in places and worth knowing about before you wear the wrong shoes.
Yes, and on this night it is the sensible way to do it. The Westergasfabriek empties into a park at an hour when the park is dark and the Haarlemmerweg has no taxis on it. Your chauffeur is at the gate you came in through, and the first thing you do after the last track is send one message. 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 Gashouder, 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.