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Destination AMS·P

Escorts in De Pijp

De Pijp is the district people move to and then refuse to leave. A tight grid of nineteenth century streets south of the Amstel, a market running six days a week, a park in the middle of it, and more good kitchens per hundred metres than anywhere else in Amsterdam. Seven companions work from here, and the rest of the board is a tram ride away.

Notice is the same sixty minutes as the rest of central Amsterdam, and the first hour opens at €180, listed in full on the rates page.

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02 / Detail

The district in plain terms

Ferdinand Bolstraat runs down the spine of it, with the Albert Cuyp market crossing at right angles and trading until late afternoon. Sarphatipark sits a block east, small, green and used by everybody. The old Heineken brewery anchors the northern corner near the Stadhouderskade, and the Amstel closes the district off to the east. Gerard Douplein and the Ceintuurbaan carry the terraces. The whole place is flat, walkable end to end in twenty minutes, and lit well enough to enjoy at night.

03 / Signage

Where the hotels are

The hotel stock here is newer and smaller than in the centre. Most of it clusters at the northern end, near Frederiksplein, the Weteringcircuit and the Stadhouderskade, where the district meets the canal ring and the museums are already in walking distance. A second scatter sits along Ferdinand Bolstraat and towards the Amstel, mostly modern rooms in converted buildings, often with a bar downstairs that stays open.

These are unfussy addresses with unfussy reception desks, which makes an evening here simple to arrange. Your companion arrives at the hour agreed, dressed for a district where nobody is trying too hard, and nothing about her entrance invites a second look.

04 / Schedule

Arrival times you can plan around

Sixty minutes covers it comfortably. Trams run down Ferdinand Bolstraat and along the Ceintuurbaan, the metro stop at De Pijp puts the whole district four minutes from the centre, and cycling from the Dam takes about twelve minutes. The one predictable obstruction is the market: until roughly five in the afternoon, the Albert Cuypstraat itself is closed to cars and the streets feeding it are congested.

Tell the desk your cross street along with the hotel name. It is the difference between a taxi stopping at your door and a taxi stopping two blocks away.

05 / Concourse

How an evening here tends to run

De Pijp evenings start early and stay informal. A drink on a terrace while the market packs up, dinner somewhere with an open kitchen and no tablecloth, then a slow walk around Sarphatipark or along the Amstel with the water on your left. If you want music afterwards the district has it, in basements rather than on billboards.

Rosa is good company for record shops, galleries and long unhurried dinners, Molly knows which cocktail bars actually know what they are doing, Luna is the right choice if the evening involves a stage or a serious wine list, and Cindy will have you walking the Amstel before you have thought about it.

06 / Transfer

Next stops on the map

Oud-Zuid starts immediately west across the Boerenwetering, ten minutes on foot to Museumplein. Amsterdam Centrum is four minutes by metro or a fifteen minute walk over the Amstel. The Jordaan is a straight tram ride north west. For early flights, Schiphol is roughly twenty five minutes by road from here.

Final call

De Pijp, on schedule.

Give us the hotel and the hour. We confirm who is free and when she will be at your door.

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