Fed
up with cities by night? Then try Amsterdam for a change.
Famous for the red light scene - and so different from the big metropoles like Paris and Berlin.
Dresscode: - nothing special, casual, a bit elegant but more on the legere
side.
Holland is the most tolerant country
in Europe ( the other exception are
Denmark and Sweden). Here effectively
nobody asks who you are and what you do. Even drugs can be bought at each Bar.
A label of the life-culture of this
country are the curtains in the windows of the houses. They are always open, day and night, and absolutely nobody
looks into your living room.
In apartment houses the stairs often go up on the outside and you pass along long terraces to reach your own apartment.
The people just walk by, and the family sits or lies around in the lighted living rooms - nobody cares to look
at each other.
And so Amsterdam presents its nightlife: open,
uncomplicated, more funny and with raffinesse and a bit "province"- than with lots of hidden fire. But
it has its points - especially for youngsters and cool people.
Let's make a nightly walk along
the "Grachten". The striking
feature of the city is its semi-circular structure of canals that run throughout the whole town. A nightly cruise
with a sight-seeing boat will be our apéritiv.
Gliding along houseboats that people
use as their home, we will enjoy a lot of genuine Holland.
People actually live in these boats! They live there, not because they cannot afford a "real" house,
but because it's such a charming way to live in the middle of the old city. They are often inhabited by artists,
writers, intellectuals or just enthusiasts for this way of living. Like a movie passing by you will enjoy the boats'
nightlife. Music, singing, chatting on deck. No problem- you can get even a nice invitation from a partying crowd
on board, while your captain sails you through the most beautiful seventeenth century canals.
"What could be more beautiful than seeing illuminated Old Amsterdam from a luxury
boat? Romance, candlelight and soft music are all yours, plus an assortment of Dutch cheeses and a choice of good
wines." You feel well, easy-going.
Delft blue, tulips, a castle with a Queen, very
pretty tiny houses along the streets. Blues in the air.
Bars, in small houses under big trees are
filled up till the end- row on row stands the crowd, drinking
a beer, chattting, smoke in your eyes. Talk with the person just standing on your feet- it's the best way to get
in connection.
To warm up a bar with some pep ? Take a choice of your taste.
De Bananenbar
udezijds Achterburgwal 37 (6224670).
The owners of the Casa Rosso bring you
another famous institution, De Bananenbar. Active audience participation is encouraged as bananas are transformed
into erotic devices by the hostesses. Popular with tourists and stag parties. There's a semi-negotiable cover charge,
but once you're in the drinks are on the house!
Open Mon-Sat 10pm-2am (3am weekends).
Casa Rosso Achterburgwal 106-108 (627 89 54).
Amsterdam's most famous and certainly largest night club, in the middle of the Red Light district. A clean and
comfortable erotic theater which almost manages to create a family atmosphere; a must see for every tourist. Live
shows every night, with audience participation.
Open daily until 3am. Admission f50.
Absolute Danny
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 78 (421 09
15).
You won't have any trouble finding a sex
shop in this area, but Danny's deserves a special mention. One of the first shops run entirely by a woman, the
atmosphere here is distinctly different from your basic shop. The orientation is towards fetish clothing, with
a large variety of clothes, corsets and lingerie in rubber, pvc, see-through and leather. Accessories abound, such
as jewelry, books, videos, erotic art and of course the traditional sex articles like the one and only Tarzan vibrator.
According to the Dutch Playboy magazine this is one of the classiest erotic and fetish establishments in Holland,
and it's definitely worth a try.
Open 11am-midnight.
 Moulin Rouge(
a copy of Paris)
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 5-7 (625 13
78).
Erotic theater, in the tradition of its famous Paris counterpart; striptease and live shows.
Open daily 2pm-2am. Admission f35. |
Oh! Almost forgotten: the Sex-
museum at the Danmark street
Three floors of everything you ever have seen or
heard of specialties, toys,etc.- even from centuries ago - Opa & Oma had some fun too when they were young........
and around the corner near the redlight district let's enter a house for strip-tease and
else. Wives are not forbidden to enter
too- sure not in Amsterdam. A nice Bar at the first floor - second floor you may be offered a nice strip-tease
show- boring? So take the way up - one floor higher a pretty woman and a (maybe her real husband) nice guy with
muscles show you some live acts.... not bad. Still usual ? One floor more? Jes here you will be entertained by
some woman and man dancing in costumes with raffiness, and using not usual toys. Warm, hot, hotter? It's quite
stimulating.
And now Amsterdam-by-night visitors, the
highlight and hotspot of Amsterdam:
° The redlight district
--
and, since Holland is Holland, wives
and girls may enter too- maybe one of the girls in the window shows you a long nose or puts one middle finger up-----but
don't care - just don't do it back!
Enter this Link-- and you can make a
tour in the ° redlight district live.
What you may not expect- most of the girls are very beautiful and will be pleased to see you enter their paradise -
and then they sure will close their curtain specially 4u.
http://www.amsterdamhotspots.nl/tour/tourredlights.html 
( redlight tour live)
And now as your money is spent - and your
wife went home or is having a nice nightcap in a trendy Bar like:
Richter (36 Op De Schaal Van)
Reguliersdwarsstraat 36 (626 15 73).
A small two-storied club catering mainly to thirty-somethings. The upper floor has a good view of the dancefloor
below. The interior carries variations on the earthquake theme (36 on the Richter Scale), with cracked walls and
ceilings and broken mirrors. Different musical styles with house, hip-hop, dance classics and garage sounds. Relatively
relaxed door policy.
Open wed-sun 10pm-4am (5am weekends),
admission f 10.
with her friends
Soul Kitchen
Amstelstraat 32 (620 23 33).
Retro club playing soul, funk and disco from the sixties and seventies. Matching 25+ crowd.
Open Wed-Sun 11pm-4am (5am weekends),
admission f 10.
...for you: to the CASINO
Lido, Max Euweplein 62
1017 MB
Amsterdam
Netherlands
maybe you win the spent money back.
Athough there are still a lot of establishments
that call themselves casinos, the nine Holland Casinos are the only official ones in the Netherlands. Inside you'll
find Roulette tables together with tables playing Black Jack and Punto Banco. There's also the Jackpot Club with
its slot machines. And for the perfect ending
to your afternoon or evening there's the bar and the restaurant.
The Holland Casinos will be glad to welcome anyone over 18, suitably dressed and with valid identification.
Opening hours :
Every day from 1.30 pm -- 2.00 am.
http://www.channels.nl/cgi-bin/pagatoz.cgi?framed=http://www.channels.nl/amsterdam/casino.html (Homepage Casino Amsterdam)
The night will soon end :---
a cool fresh long beer - let it roll down your throat and take a taxi home to your cosy Amsterdam hotel with flowered
beds. Relax and enjoy - nothing as leger as Amsterdam.
Dont take off from Amsterdam----
roll into the next exciting adventure.
Book a night cabin on the ICE-Nightliner (a quick white wonderfuly shaped train) and run by a moony
night in a luxury bedroom of this fast train thru Europe -
order a bottle of Champagne : cheers
! Spend a wonderful trip, open the train's curtains and have some fun with your partner-- looking out of the window..
It's worth it ----see you again Amsterdam
Simone ~
http://www.channels.nl/leidseplein.html very good Amsterdam site- *****
http://goholland.com/NBT-amst-night.html look in maybe you find what you search
for
http://www.kuaternita.co.id/mbs/voyage_in_the_capital_city_of_excess.htm description-not bad
http://www.geocities.com/~ppeatman/Holland4.html hotels
http://www.sonaco.com/cityguide/Amsterdam/hotels.htm city guide quite good
http://www.amsterdamhotspots.nl/club.html clubs and bars and else by night **
