20 Years of The Warehouse Project,
chauffeured.
A Manchester institution in the basement under the A'DAM Toren. Shelter is a low, dark basement room under the tower at Overhoeks, and it programmes the kind of night that runs until the sun is well up. A visiting institution with twenty years behind it is exactly the sort of billing that fills it to the walls.
Thursday 22 October, at the Shelter.
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.
Shelter is a low, dark basement room under the tower at Overhoeks, and it programmes the kind of night that runs until the sun is well up. A visiting institution with twenty years behind it is exactly the sort of billing that fills it to the walls.
The room is directly across the water from Centraal, which sounds close and is — by car. On foot and by ferry at six in the morning it is a different proposition entirely.
The IJtunnel and the Overhoeksplein, five minutes from the centre. From Schiphol it is the A10 and the Coentunnel, half an hour without going near the canal belt.
Shelter closes long after the night buses have thinned out. The car waits on the Overhoeksplein at the foot of the tower, a few steps from the door you come out of, in daylight if the night has run its full course.
Overhoeks, beneath the A'DAM Toren, Amsterdam-Noord.
Shelter is the basement room under the A'DAM Toren at Overhoeks in Noord, immediately across the IJ from Centraal. By car it is the IJtunnel and the Overhoeksplein — five minutes from the centre, and quick from Schiphol by the A10 and the Coentunnel.
We set down on the Overhoeksplein at the foot of the tower, a few steps from the entrance. The square is well lit and the same spot works for the pickup at closing.
Shelter is the basement room under the A'DAM Toren at Overhoeks in Noord, immediately across the IJ from Centraal. By car it is the IJtunnel and the Overhoeksplein — five minutes from the centre, and quick from Schiphol by the A10 and the Coentunnel. 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.
We set down on the Overhoeksplein at the foot of the tower, a few steps from the entrance. The square is well lit and the same spot works for the pickup at closing.
Yes, and on this night it is the sensible way to do it. Shelter closes long after the night buses have thinned out. The car waits on the Overhoeksplein at the foot of the tower, a few steps from the door you come out of, in daylight if the night has run its full course. 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 Shelter, 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.