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we're all booked up

Awesome we are looking forward to a great time and we even have some tremendous surprises instore for the people who are able to make it out!

BTW.... All suites are taken, but the deluxe rooms are very nice! ;-)

I'll be there for sure.

Buy my content Ja Ja Ja!

This is going to be a superawesome show!

wish I could go

workin on making it there...so far, its not looking good..looks like this could be one very good show!

wish you would come , I'll have one on you Mike...

Not working hard enough

Count me in and don't forget to come to our party.... freeze your Brain

It's going to be great! MikeHawk, just get your ass over here (or at least try more, more, more!)!

Hey so VIP, is the Dam-to-Dam run on that sunday?

Got my KLM flight, non-stop out of SFO.

i'm booked

pimpinpays will be there! represent!

We will have some fun Fred ;-)

Yes Maria it;'s the dam to dam run, are you bringing your sneakers

Looking forward to it! Got my room booked... and its just a 1 hour 30 minutes car drive for me.. so Gonna be a fun time I'm sure!

It's a home game for you Mikey!!

I am in VIPPIE

Living 10 minutes away from the hotel makes it even more attractive

You still like broodje kroket Mike? hehehe

Damn Mike Your not going to be there? I thought you would be there for sure!

Always good to see you Mr. Blue Eyes!

Yeah baby

FF Deunen denk!

Yes... I think it's better to rely on my running qualities than on the train, don't you think?

I'm all booked up

All booked up looking forward to meeting some Americans from the biz, being doing the EU shows for a couple of years this looks to be a real cracker.

Looks like AOE will have some competition which is always good :-)

can i sleep in your room? :P

woohooooo

WTF? Kattengat isn't in the middle of the RLD. Kattengat is just off the Singel canal.

So you think you are not able to find red lights at the Singel, Spuistraat, The NieuwezijdsvoorburgWAL or the Oude Nieuwstraat ? Even in the Bergstraat hookers are located. Old Sailor bar, Bananabar and Cassa Rosso als in within walking distance...

Correct me if I'm wrong, never been there


The Singel/Spui district

Exiting the station and crossing the bridge, this time we will turn right. Our heading is the Victoria hotel. Look for it up ahead to your right as you cross the intersection. Turning right, in front of the hotel, walk up Prins Hendrikkade to the next crossing, cross the street, and turn left onto Martelaarsgracht. You?ll pass "The Internet C@fé" (sole survivor of the once flourishing Amsterdam Internet Café scene), across the street on the left.

Next crossing is the shopping street Nieuwendijk. If you were to go left onto Nieuwendijk, you will after a while end up at Dam Square. If you turn right you will come to the Singel Canal. Singel you say, that is where we are going. Let?s push ahead! But hold your horses for a while. Let?s take another path, so that our route takes us past all the (94) windows in the Singel/Spui RLD.

If you are hungry, stop in at the "Soup Kitchen" in the crossing. It is a pretty good place for an English-style artery clogging breakfast. If not hungry, cross the street, and continue down the street, which has, by the way, changed names to Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal.

Up ahead, on the left, the Crown Plaza Hotel. You are now facing a "Y" in the road. Follow to the left beside the Sint Nicolaas Hotel and continue down Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal.

Across the street, past a couple of restaurants, you will see "Blue Boy" and "Why Not", a gay sex cinema and club.

Ahead of you, just before Amsterdam City Centre Hotel, is Korte Kolk Steeg. Turn right. On this street you will find the first windows, 4 of them. It?s a short street, and in no time you will be standing on Spuistraat. And why not take a look up and down Spuistraat? You will find 2, sometimes 3, floors with window girls. Some that you can see from where you stand, behind you on the right and several further south on Spui, to your left. Spuistraat, with 28 windows, has the highest number of windows of any single street in the area, but they?re scattered up and down the street.

Let?s continue our walk up the street that we were just on. Crossing the Spuistraat, the street name now changes to Korte Korsjespoort Steeg. Again a very short walk up to the next crossing. To your right you have Teerketelsteeg, with 3 windows on the top of the 3rd floor, and to your left Nieuw Oude Straat. "Middlepunkt", a brothel room rental place at number 5, is beside you on your left

Turn left at "Middelpunkt", and walk up Nieuw Oude Straat. The 22 windows are clustered on both ends of this street. At the end of Nieuw Oude Straat, we will be turning right, but have a quick look to your left on Lijnbaanstraat and you'll find 2 new windows, just around the corner.

And now, for the first time, we come up to Singel itself, the canal. Singel is the oldest and innermost of the 4 canals which comprise the girdle of canals (Singel, Herengracht, Keizersgracht, Prinsengracht) which surround the old centre of Amsterdam. The Singel is not to be confused with another canal of the same name, Singelgracht, a fifth perimeter canal.

If you look to your right you?ll find some windows on this side along the Singel. Here you will normally find Asian (Thai) girls, and also an occasional Asian "ladyboy" or two. Further up north on Singel you will find more windows. We?ll return to the Singel, a bit later, as we complete the circuit.

Cross the Singel canal on the bridge, Linjbaansbruug. After you have crossed take an immediate left and walk down Singel on the right (east) side. The first street you will come to is Bergstraat. Turn right.

Bergstraat serves mainly locals. It?s rather quiet, no camera-toting tourist groups and no drunken visiting football fans either. 10 windows in total. At the end on the left side you will find a coffeeshop, "Amnesia" on the corner of Bergstraat and Herengracht.

You?re now at Herengracht (Gentlemen?s canal). Turn right, north along the Herengracht. Just before the next bridge, Blauburgwal, you?ll pass Sauna Deco, at number 115, a wonderful sauna which takes pride in it?s elegant art deco furnishings which were salvaged from a 1920?s Parisian department store, housed in a building designed by the great Dutch architect, Berlage.

Crossing the bridge, the Blauwburgwal canal is below you on your right. Blauwburgwal is a cosy little canal, enjoy the picturesque view at this lovely intersection.

On the other side of the bridge, to your left, across the Herengracht, lies the Herenstraat. There?s lots of "Dutchiness" to be found here, and on the following streets. Cosy flower shops, cosy atmospheric restaurants, cosy antiques shops, cosy art galleries, etc. Raging cosiness, if you will.

Continue straight ahead up the Herengracht leaving the Blauburgwal behind you. At the next street, Korsjespoortsteeg, you will turn right. Just ahead of you, to your left, the Multatuli Museum dedicated to the great Dutch philosopher and freethinker.

Immediately to your right, nearly directly across from Multituli, you?ll find 2 windows. Continuing up to Lange Straat, and crossing over, you will find several more windows. This section of Korsejespoortsteeg appeared in the 1989 Timothy Dalton vehicle, a film called "Hawks", which was financed with the star power (soon lost) he had acquired after his first stint as James Bond, 007. It was a forgettable melodrama about a terminally ill man having a final fling in Amsterdam. If you get a chance to see it, you?ll enjoy how the filmmakers "dressed" the street with every manner of tawdry and garish rubbish, to make it their idea and perhaps by extension, the average persons idea, of what a red light district should look like. It was a far cry from the reality of the quiet, typically Amsterdam street you now stand on.

We?re back at the Singel canal. Cross the bridge. On the other side you?ll find a couple of more windows on Singel . A couple close to the crossing, both left and right, and 2 more, a bit further north along Singel close to the dome of the old Lutheran Church. (Guess what Church...LOL)


Well, that?s it. You've made a complete circuit of the Singel area.

For a complete tour: Click here and take a closer look at the redlightdsitrict tour

VIP is my 'komrade'

I never said that you couldn't find red lights in other parts of Amsterdam. I said that Kattengat isn't in the middle of the RLD, or at least what would commonly be considered the main RLD.

Could you imagine walking into some tourist shop on Damrak and asking "where is the red light district?" They would point you in the complete opposite direction from the hotel.

damn
still need to book the shit
im late this time of the year

I'll buy you a tranny hooker!

Do not know what you are trying to prove? So all tour guides and even the sites I was referring to are wrong?

Even the "main" RLD you are referring to is only 400 yards from the frontdesk of the hotel. (via the Oude brug steeg)

Because that?s to far for you, you are not commin' right?

The nearest blow job (50 Euros) is 40 yards...

Great deal

If I walk up to 100 people who live in Amsterdam and ask them if the hotel is in the middle of the Red Light District, how many will say "yes"?

96

or maybe 97

maybe 90

or 92

who cares?

Theres more to Amsterdam then porn and sex......its justr really hard to break away from the darkside ;-)


This show is one I am well looking forward to, I know there's a lot of people going that have never been tempted before.

What I want to get from it are some relationships with US webmasters & programme owners. The seminars look to be discussing all the useful topics too an idea of whos speaking would be cool.

So what I have done is make up my own wish list of people I wanna hear speak / meet on the first day based on their headings;

Friday September 16th

11:30 to 12:30 Lunch
MY CHOICE - Liquid

Seminars:
12:30 to 1:30pm Newbies:Keys to Success
MY CHOICE - GreenGuy

1:30 to 2:00pm Break
2:00 to 3:00pm Where's the Traffic
MY CHOICE - Google .....(im sure they keep the good stuff for them selves ;-) )

3:00 to 4:00pm Newest Legal Issues
MY CHOICE - US Justice Department

anyhow thats my moment of madness over with

My point is that it's misleading. People who have never been to Amsterdam will walk the few streets around the hotel thinking they're in the middle of the RLD, and probably be dissapointed because they thought it was much more than that, which it is, but they read on some internet posting board that the hotel was right in the middle of the RLD.

Again... what are you trying to prove, that the hotel sucks? Sorry there was no 450 bedroom 5 start hotel right next to the old sailor bar...

Did you book your room yet?

If you want to discuss further on geography hit me up on icq or maybe start another thread....

Free maps of the (whatever)Red Light District will be available at the event. Believe me you won't need weels to get there... We will even provide free access to the Banana bar and Casa Rosso (Sponsored by Python.com)

get a live...

Why are you so defensive? I never said the hotel sucks, there's nothing wrong with the hotel at all. The hotel is great, Amsterdam is great, everything is great, except for telling people that the hotel is in the middle of the RLD.

My point is that people are coming to Amsterdam who have never been before, they know nothing about the city, and by telling them that the hotel is in the middle of the RLD, they're going to be disspointed when they walk the few streets around the hotel where they might see 1 or 2 red lights and a cofee shop and think they saw the RLD, then they'll get on a plane and go home and tell everyone this false impression of the RLD.

I'm trying to keep people from being dissapointed and ensure they get the full RLD experience, and you're telling me to get a life?

azijnzeiker...

I wish I can go too

Booked and really looking forward to it

Gianna! Great seeing you in Miami...
Tell them that we need you here!

I got my seat next to you. We can talk about bukkake for hours and hours

I'm sorry for trying to help people enjoy their time in Amsterdam. The next time someone asks me where the RLD is, I'll just point them towards Jordaan and walk away laughing.