This big outdoor flea market is really a trip! Lots of clothes, crafts, art, electronics and miscellaneous junk. Some vendors are just cleaning out their attic, so there are bargains to be found.
Waterlooplein Market
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The Flying Pig Hostels
The famous Flying Pig now has three hostels located downtown, near the Vondelpark and their newest beach hostel at Noordwijk aan Zee.
Hemp Hotel
This historic hippy hangout was an Amsterdam landmark, now permanently closed.
This groovy little hotel promotes hemp products with every conceiveable item made of hemp. Mila Jansen is well known for inventing the Pollinator which makes hashish out of leftover cannabis leaves. The Hotel has very reasonable rates which include a vegetarian breakfast. Prices range from 100-145 guilders per room. The Hemp Hotel is located in a quiet part of town.
The Hemple Temple Bar is located in the ground floor and has all sorts of hemp food and drinks for you to try. It’s open nights until early in the a.m.
Frederiksplein 15
Amsterdam
Phone: 625-4425
Manneken Pis Vlaamse Frites
This chain of Belgian Frites makes some good fresh “french fries”. There are many around town, usually on high traffic streets. There’s a good variety of sauces in addition to the standard mayonaise, ketchup and curry to accompany your potatoes. What all this has to do with a boy pissing is beyond me, but that is typical Dutch humor. Make sure you grab a little fork or you’ll get sticky fingers trying to pull those last frites out of the paper!
Oriental City
This very attractive multi-storied Chinese restaurant serves up some great Chinese and Indonesian food at reasonable prices. Good views over the Oudezides Voorburgwaal. Highly recommended is the Indonesian Rijstafel (Ricetable) with about a dozen dishes like curried beef, gado gado, chicken satay, fruit salad and a fabulous banana fritter for dessert. We’ve been coming here for years and the food is always consistent. Located only one block from the Dam Square.
Vakzuid
Permanently closed, a historical note.
In the former Olympic Stadium built circa 1928. Bar, restaurant and lounge are open afternoons and evenings. Cocktails and sushi with VJ’s in the bar Thursdays thru Sundays. Different scenes on other nights. Very relaxing place well worth the trip. Take the 6, 16 or 24 trams to the end of the line, and it’s a short walk from there.
Amsterdam
Phone: 020-570-8400
Bep
Once a hip little place on the club crawl, on the NZ Voorborgwal…long gone, historical note only.
Nieuwezijdes Voorburgwal 260
Amsterdam
Phone: 020-626-5649
Pollinator Company
The Pollinator has moved again! (Grasweg 41D, 1031 HW Amsterdam, Netherlands) Now across the Ij from the old side of Amsterdam, see the map below for directions. Here is THE place that stocks gadgets to make your pot harvesting easier and more profitable. This is the place that makes and sells the famous Pollinator which separates tricomes from leaves and makes hashish!
Plus Mila is a real trip to meet! If she’s not around at the moment, one of her many kids will be glad to help you with anything.
Mila also sells the Ice-o-lator, a bag/screen system that uses ice water to separate those tricky tricomes, and ONLY the tricomes from grass. The resulting hash is the cleanest and purest around. If you come for a visit you can check out some amazing tools like “The Clipper,” which offers an easy way to manicure your harvest; the Pollinators that can process kilos of grass at a time; and lots more including a HUGE selection of grow books, and psychedelic cacti.
The large space is well stocked with everything from hash presses, to seed cleaner, hemp drinks and food, hemp snowboards, rare hallucinogens, ayahuasca, magic mushrooms, smoking accessories, smart products and live plants.
Have a chat with Mila and you’ll come away far wiser and more knowledgeable about the delightful world of hemp.
Melkweg
Once a dairy, the Melkweg or Milky Way plays host to a wide range of entertainment from world famous musicians to the Cannabis Cup.
Inside are two dance halls, a bar, cafe, photo gallery and cinema.
The films offered are from around the world, in their original languages, often with Dutch subtitles. This is a great place to see cult classics or modern masterpieces.
A small monthly membership fee is added to ticket sales.
Beware: The air inside can get hot and full of smoke at times. If you’re sensitive, try finding a spot under the big ceiling vents for easier breathing.
Ticket office opens at 7:30pm
Lijnbaansgracht 234
Amsterdam
Phone: +31-(0)20-531-81-81
SOL DJ Cafe
Formerly a venue on the Rembrandtplein for good sound. Closed.
Address:
18 Rembrandtplein
Amsterdam