Amsterdam

[Andy C]

[Ste]

Don't forget your toothbrush!! Or your toothpaste for that matter.

https://www.stedotcom.com/stuff/toothpaste.jpg

Large tubs of grease work equally well, of course you can fit a lot more into tubs of grease than you can fit in toothpaste pumps.

[Ste]

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8493551.stm

Be careful.

[TheDonUK]

Lol ste i saw that too, Besides when i fly i never bring anything back on my person, not worth it with airports, my methods are better used on the bike/coach etc
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[TUG]

Right with my birthday drawing close, i need to sort out the trip, i've found a flight from manchester for £196 for the 2 nights in Naarden 4 stars? any good or am i being bled for cash?
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[Chris750]

Been about 8 times over the past ten years.

A funny story that happened when some mates were trying to buy coke off a street dealer.

They were sorting the deal and had bought a gram when the dealer tried to put the rest of his stash in his pocket.
Instead of ending up in his pocket, it fell on the floor, but the dealer didn't notice.

My mate picked up his stash and handed it back to the dealer but the dealer not knowing what was going on just kept pushing my mates hand away (his english wasn't very good).

A second friend of mine clocked what was happening and grabed the stash out of my mates hand and walked off. He said later "well he had his chance".

A very good evening was then had by all, the bag had 12 wraps in it aproximately a gram each.

The dealer must of kicked himself when he realised he had lost his stash and then remembered the guy trying to give him something.

[Jayy]

I've been once in 2007 but it was for the Sensation dance event. We flew out early friday morning and arrived at 9am in Amsterdam. We'd already been up for 24hrs and couldn't check into our hotel until 2.30pm, just ended up getting pissed all day until we got back to the hotel. We couldn't get to sleep so stayed up and got ready for Sensation.

I have to say, I've never been to anything like that before, Sensation is fucking brilliant, although I'm into hardstyle, that was something else.

Video I took from the VIP bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy5yaLbD6sQ

On the way back in the taxi, we bought all our coke off the taxi driver. He must have had a couple of ounzes in a bag he pulled out from under his seat, plus it was a pimped out people carrier he was driving with DVD screens in all the seats. You could tell he wasn't some crack head plus I said I wanna try some of it first so we're not buying shit gear and he let me. Any time we needed any over the next few days, we rang him and he turned up outside our hotel with it.

We also bought some tablets off some girls on the train to sensation which blew my fucking head off after just one of them.

[Clanger]

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[steppen22]

what's the totty like
(f you know what I mean?)
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[TUG]

[Ste]

€30-40 per person per night for hotels, flights from £50-60 with sleazyjet by booking in advance.

So £196 for two nights in expensive, but cheap hotels aren't 4 star so it depends if you want a 4 star hotel or a cheap hotel.

[TUG]

Hiya Ste, i've changed my airport (departing) to liverpool and has gone down by £10 easyjet want £130 without hotel, so £183 all in atm. I've tried bookin flights seperate then booking a hotel but works out more exspensive, i'm thinking of just going with the £183 to have everything sorted for me and then just go enjoy myself.
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[Frost]

Sounds expensive to me, but then i've always gone with the budget hostel option. If your happy just having everything sorted, go for it and have fun!

[TUG]

[Frost]

I did the coach there once. NEVER again. Cost £68 which my mate said was cheaper than flying and took about 15 hours to get there, double that with an unexpected stay with french customs. These days i post things back

[TUG]

Ok am going in the morning, any last tips and things i should look out for? i need to come back alive so whats the things i should stay clear of and stuff?
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Haz ER-5, innit!

[Ste]

Look out for trams & cyclists!!!!!

[Clanger]

[Mudskipper]

[SoND]

[Frost]

[doggone]

From the North you can take the North Sea ferry from Hull to Rotterdam and it's only a couple of hours to Amsterdam.
As mentioned it's not a pleasant ride: Rotterdam seems like motorway city with very few of those Dutch bicycles to be seen unless you go into the town centre.
I'd probably fly rather than take a bike just for a weekend, but if you have a week or so you could fit in some touring to other parts of Holland or Belgium (maybe Brugges?) or even Northern Germany.

Amsterdam seemed to have plenty of places you could squeeze in a motorbike and chain it to something substantial. No one seemed to be paid to jump out and try to charge you or fine you or clamp you unlike London

I stayed room only in an incredibly tall narrow steep-staired house for a couple of nights and it was about £40 per night. This was a stones throw from Central station so pretty reasonable, and eating out was good value with good choice of cafes on the doorstep.

It seems a bit sad to go to Amsterdam to get drunk or smoke pot.
It's a lovely old place with lots to see and even the redlight zone seems to be a tourist attraction as much as anything - window shop!
There are a lot of drug pushers and rather aggressive beggars.
If you can't say no to them all have a few coins to hand if you must.

A sophisticated variant on the begging was an ageing-tart woman who came up to me and started giving me a verbal history of the local landmarks. She then got quite cross when I wouldn't pay her anything for talking to me while walking in the street for two minutes.
Almost everyone seems to speak reasonable English, they seem to know you are British before you say a word - not sure I want to know how....

[Ste]

[TUG]

Well i survived! i didnt get to smoke, or do any whores lmfao, but man that place is great!! BCF tour to the dam? C'mon you know you wanna!
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[Jayy]