Swan Lake Remixed,
chauffeured.
Ballet and electronics under the dome of the Gashouder. The Gashouder is a circular brick gas holder with a roof that does remarkable things to sound, and this is the night the week uses it for something other than a warehouse party. Ballet, orchestra and electronics in the round, with more than one showing in the evening.
Wednesday 21 October, at the Gashouder.
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.
The Gashouder is a circular brick gas holder with a roof that does remarkable things to sound, and this is the night the week uses it for something other than a warehouse party. Ballet, orchestra and electronics in the round, with more than one showing in the evening.
A crossover audience arrives here: people who go to the Concertgebouw and people who go to warehouses, often in the same car. What they share is a wish not to walk across a dark industrial site looking for a car afterwards.
From the centre it is a ten-minute run along the Haarlemmerweg. From Zuid or the ring it is the A10-West and the S103. Arrive with a little room to spare: the walk across the Westergasfabriek grounds from the gate to the gas holder takes a few minutes on foot.
The site is unlit in places and the surrounding streets are quiet after the last showing. Your chauffeur waits at the Klönneplein entrance so the walk out is the same short one you made on the way in, with somebody waiting at the end of it.
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 site is unlit in places and the surrounding streets are quiet after the last showing. Your chauffeur waits at the Klönneplein entrance so the walk out is the same short one you made on the way in, with somebody waiting at the end of 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 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.