The Panama programme on the Oostelijke Handelskade,
chauffeured.
Label showcases in the old power house on the waterfront. Panama sits in a converted building on the eastern waterfront, the kind of mid-sized room where label showcases work best: big enough for a proper sound system, small enough that the artists are in the room rather than backstage.
Wednesday 21 October, at the Panama.
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.
Panama sits in a converted building on the eastern waterfront, the kind of mid-sized room where label showcases work best: big enough for a proper sound system, small enough that the artists are in the room rather than backstage.
The Oostelijke Handelskade runs past the Passenger Terminal, which means it is also the closest serious room to anyone arriving in Amsterdam by ship that week.
A straight run east from Centraal along the waterfront, or down from the IJtunnel. The car stops in front of the building, clear of the tram line along the kade.
The kade is quiet once the room empties, with the tram long finished. Your chauffeur is where he set you down, which is also a convenient point to collect a group arriving from two different directions.
Oostelijke Handelskade.
Panama is on the Oostelijke Handelskade east of Centraal, along the waterfront past the Passenger Terminal. It is a straight run from the centre and an easy one from the IJtunnel.
The car stops on the Handelskade in front of the building, a few metres from the doors and out of the way of the tram line that runs along the kade.
Panama is on the Oostelijke Handelskade east of Centraal, along the waterfront past the Passenger Terminal. It is a straight run from the centre and an easy one from the IJtunnel. 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.
The car stops on the Handelskade in front of the building, a few metres from the doors and out of the way of the tram line that runs along the kade.
Yes, and on this night it is the sensible way to do it. The kade is quiet once the room empties, with the tram long finished. Your chauffeur is where he set you down, which is also a convenient point to collect a group arriving from two different directions. 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 Panama, 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.