A stand on the Europaplein,
a car that knows which gate.
RAI Amsterdam is a short hop from Schiphol and a long walk from wherever you were dropped. The difference between a good fair day and a tiring one is usually a chauffeur who knows the Europaboulevard, the Elicium side and where a car is allowed to stand for ninety seconds.
One complex, two arrival sides, and a ring road across the top.
RAI Amsterdam sits in Amsterdam-Zuid between the Europaplein and the Europaboulevard, with Amsterdam RAI station on one side and the A10 Zuid running along the northern edge. Getting to the postcode is trivial; getting to your hall is the part that costs time. The Europaplein entrance faces the station and takes the bulk of visitor traffic, and the Elicium entrance on the north side serves the upper conference floors — arriving at the wrong one means crossing the whole complex on foot with a laptop bag and a roll-up.
On a busy fair day the streets around the plaza fill with coaches, delivery vans and cars circling for a gap, and the boulevard itself becomes a slow queue. A chauffeur who works the venue regularly drops you on the right side at the right moment, then leaves for a legal waiting spot a few streets away and comes back on a message. That is the whole trick, and it saves an hour a day over four days.
The people whose week is decided at the Europaplein.
Build-up, show days, teardown. An hourly booking keeps the same car and chauffeur from the hotel door to the hall and back for the whole block, so the boxes that should have gone in the first load still arrive before lunch.
A conference slot is a fixed minute. We collect from the hotel with a margin, use it waiting in the right place, and hand you to the Elicium entrance rather than to the nearest kerb.
People flown in for one day rarely want to work out which tram runs to Europaplein. The chauffeur meets them in the Schiphol arrivals hall with a sign and delivers them to the entrance their host named.
A fair on the Europaplein and meetings at the WTC or on the Strawinskylaan is a five-minute drive and a thirty-minute walk. Held by the hour, the car turns that into a non-event.
Several cars, several passenger lists, one account and one invoice at the end. Bookings can be made by an assistant, with status updates going to the booker rather than the guest.
Four moments, planned once and repeated all week.
Flight tracked, chauffeur inside the arrivals hall with a name sign, sixty minutes of free waiting after landing. Luggage into the boot and straight to the hotel on the Europaboulevard or in the Zuidas.
Hotel to the Europaplein or Elicium entrance at the time you set, with the route chosen around the build-up traffic on the boulevard rather than through it.
The car waits nearby on an hourly booking, minimum two hours with 40 kilometres included per hour. Lunch off site, a client visit in the Zuidas, a run back to the hotel for a change of clothes.
Dinner in the centre, drinks at the stand party, then the departure. Book Schiphol at least three hours before the flight and the chauffeur confirms which departure hall on the way.
What a RAI week costs, per car.
Airport transfers are fixed and hourly hire is published per class, taxes included. A full week with several cars is quoted as one figure and invoiced to the company.
Hourly hire starts and ends in the same city, which suits a fair week exactly. A booking placed within 12 hours of pickup adds 10%; cancellation is free until an hour before pickup. Company accounts are invoiced rather than charged in the car.
Send the week, not eight separate forms.
Trade fairs rarely fit a single booking. Send the dates, the number of cars, how many people travel in each and which entrance your hall uses, and dispatch returns one fixed price for the whole run. The same thread then handles every change during the week.
The city hub: districts, hotels, the ring road and how a working day is driven here.
Accounts, invoicing and bookings made by an assistant for someone else.
How holding a car by the hour works, and why it suits a fair week better than single rides.
The wider events programme — congresses, ceremonies and venues beyond the Europaplein.
Tell us the hall or the session and we work it out. The Europaplein entrance faces the station and handles most visitor traffic; the Elicium entrance on the north side serves the upper conference floors. Getting this right before departure is the difference between stepping inside and walking the length of the complex.
About fifteen minutes on a clear run via the A4 and the A10 Zuid, and noticeably longer in the morning and evening peaks. We track your flight from the moment you book, so a late landing moves the pickup rather than the arrangement, and the first sixty minutes of waiting are free.
That is what an hourly booking is for. The same car and chauffeur stay with you for the block — minimum two hours, 40 kilometres included per hour — and park legally a short distance away, coming forward on a message. It works out simpler than four separate rides and keeps your material in the boot.
Yes. IBC, the PLMA private label fair, Intertraffic, METSTRADE and Amsterdam Drone Week all use this venue, and the pattern is the same each time: hotels fill, the boulevard slows and the entrances get busy. Book early for those weeks, because cars go quickly and the venue calendar is public.
Yes. The V-Class takes up to seven passengers and seven bags, with captain chairs and enough headroom to get in without stooping. For heavier build-up loads we would rather send two cars than overfill one — dispatch will say so when you send the list.
Yes. A corporate account collects the week onto one invoice with your own reference on it, so nobody pays in the car or files eight receipts afterwards. Assistants can book on behalf of colleagues and receive the status updates while the guest travels.