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chauffeured.
A five-hour set in the Ziggo Dome. Five hours in the Ziggo Dome is a statement of intent: one artist, one room, no changeovers, and an audience that came for the whole thing rather than a headline hour.
Friday 23 October, at the Ziggo Dome.
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.
Five hours in the Ziggo Dome is a statement of intent: one artist, one room, no changeovers, and an audience that came for the whole thing rather than a headline hour.
It also means a very large room emptying at once into ArenAPoort, at an hour when the metro has stopped and the square is at its worst for finding a car.
From the centre, the A10 to the S112, twenty minutes. From Schiphol, the A9 and the A2 from the south. From the Zuidas hotels it is barely a quarter of an hour, which makes it an easy pairing with a dinner earlier in the evening.
Your chauffeur parks on the De Passage side and waits. When five hours are up you send a message from the cloakroom queue and the car is at the kerb by the time you reach it.
ArenAPoort, Amsterdam-Zuidoost.
The Ziggo Dome stands beside the ArenA at ArenAPoort, off the A2 and the ring A10-Zuid. Coming from the centre it is a straight run down the A10 and out at the S112; coming from Schiphol the A9 and the A2 do the work.
Cars are set down on the De Passage side of the building. It is a short, lit walk to the doors, and the same spot works for the pickup if you message dispatch when the set ends.
The Ziggo Dome stands beside the ArenA at ArenAPoort, off the A2 and the ring A10-Zuid. Coming from the centre it is a straight run down the A10 and out at the S112; coming from Schiphol the A9 and the A2 do the work. 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 are set down on the De Passage side of the building. It is a short, lit walk to the doors, and the same spot works for the pickup if you message dispatch when the set ends.
Yes, and on this night it is the sensible way to do it. Your chauffeur parks on the De Passage side and waits. When five hours are up you send a message from the cloakroom queue and the car is at the kerb by the time you reach it. 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 Ziggo Dome, 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.