Glitterbox ADE,
chauffeured.
Disco and house on the Thuishaven site in Westpoort. Glitterbox brings a warmer, older tradition to a week that often runs cold and technical: disco, vocals, and a crowd that dresses for it. Thuishaven, with its fires and its outdoor yard, is a good match for it in October.
Thursday 22 October, at the Thuishaven.
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.
Glitterbox brings a warmer, older tradition to a week that often runs cold and technical: disco, vocals, and a crowd that dresses for it. Thuishaven, with its fires and its outdoor yard, is a good match for it in October.
The site sits on the Contactweg in the port area, surrounded by warehouses and container yards. It is a quarter of an hour from the canal belt by car and functionally nowhere by any other means.
The A10-West and the Transformatorweg from the ring, or the Haarlemmerweg out of the centre. Dress for the walk from the gate: this is an outdoor site and the wind comes off the harbour.
The streets around the Contactweg are industrial and empty at four in the morning, with no rank and no passing traffic. The whole point of booking the return in advance is that this stops being a problem before it starts.
Contactweg, Westpoort.
Thuishaven sits on the Contactweg in the port area west of the centre, off the A10-West by way of the S102 and the Transformatorweg. It is a fifteen-minute run from the canal belt and rather less from Schiphol.
The car stops on the Contactweg at the entrance to the site. The surrounding streets are industrial and empty at night, with no passing traffic to flag down — book the way back before you go in.
Thuishaven sits on the Contactweg in the port area west of the centre, off the A10-West by way of the S102 and the Transformatorweg. It is a fifteen-minute run from the canal belt and rather less from Schiphol. 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 Contactweg at the entrance to the site. The surrounding streets are industrial and empty at night, with no passing traffic to flag down — book the way back before you go in.
Yes, and on this night it is the sensible way to do it. The streets around the Contactweg are industrial and empty at four in the morning, with no rank and no passing traffic. The whole point of booking the return in advance is that this stops being a problem before it starts. 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 Thuishaven, 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.