Amsterdam Stag Do Accomodation

mike66uk

mike66uk

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Hi everyone, I am charged with organising a stag do in Amsterdam in March 2016 and looking to you guys for any advice/tips mainly concerning booking of accomodation.

Age ranges are 28-35, all professionals but young at heart still. So I am looking for something central and the main idea is to have a laugh and enjoy the nightlife. We're not interested in smoking at all and will actually actively avoid it as we all have jobs in the UK with regular drug testing so alcohol is our main target.

The budget is as small as possible really to leave more for entertainment, we're willing to stay in a hostel that will accept us, not that we're terrible disgusting british stag do guys, but we do want to get drunk and be alowed to be slightly louder than usual.

My research so far has led me to understand that the train station is towards the north of the city centre, with the red light district just south of that and two main nightlife areas are Leidseplein and Rembrandtplein, is this right?

I'm struggling to work out if I should be looking for accomodation nearer the train station for access/egress (whilst hungover), somewhere in the red light district, around Leidseplein or around Rembrandtplein, or anywhere else?

For the 12 of us, over a Friday and Saturday night in March I'm finding prices ranging from £450ish to £1000ish (all in) ranging from 1* hostels to the 5* Marriot, so I'm struggling to narrow it down. I would say that location is the most important, as herding 11 drunk males around isn't the easiest. I would idealling like to be able to roll out the front door and into a pub within a few minutes, without a major trek across the city to the major nightlife spots.

The sort of nightlife we're looking for is mainstream, none of us are particularly 'alternative' and none of us have any niche musical tastes, we're not looking for any metal/electro or any other variation of musical tastes, just run of the mill club/pop culture type places.

Any of you have any educated input that might help me out on particular places to stay or general areas we should be staying in?
 
Hans Brinker Budget Hotel is the go to place for filthy budget hostelling. Stayed there a couple of times, when others were arranging the digs. It's not big, clever, or pretty, but.... well, I wouldn't go there by choice, but it does the job :)
 
I was just looking at the hans brinker and the price is very attractive, I was just wondering, just how dirty/cheap actually is it?

I've also looked at the flying pig, uptown or downtown??
 
In their own hotel details they describe their own bathrooms as 'questionable', but do usually work! And that's not a disgruntled review, that's the management!
 
Yeah, it's functional and cheap. Nothing more. They won't mind you making noise.

It's nothing like as bad as, say, the Cowgate hostel in Edinburgh - that place was just awful. Hans Brinker does an ok job.

You have a bathroom in the dorm, the communal ones were pretty ****ed when we were last there - a shame as we sent a mate out for his stinking ****, but he had to do it in the dorm bog. Not nice to get to sleep with that wafting through
 
We stayed in the Bulldog Hotel/Hostel (http://www.bulldoghotel.com/) just on the edge of the red light district. We shared a room full of bunks for a couple of night with a load of strangers but it was all good. Beds were clean enough and there was a shared bathroom.

There was a bar/lounge downstairs too for smoking/drinking. Mid march 2016 for 6 people is 391E for 2 nights in a shared dorm, so getting on for 800E for 12 of you. But they do 6-12 bed dorms there, so if you booked early enough and gave them a call they may be able to get all 12 of you in a single dorm :)

They also do single private rooms too, ranging from 100-170E per per person per night.
 
mike66uk said:
In their own hotel details they describe their own bathrooms as 'questionable', but do usually work! And that's not a disgruntled review, that's the management!
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It's right next to the train station, just of the Damrak street. Me and my three friends had a private room which seemed clean and the toilet and shower worked fine. I don't know what the communal facilities are like though.
 
6 of us stayed at Hostel The Globe in April of this year, was cheap, clean and there was a bar downstairs which we used a couple of times. The people running it seemed a bit off but having to deal with drunk English people all the time can't be fun.

As for bars/clubs we went to Studio-80 on the Saturday night, was good but may not be exactly what you are after, there was a big club next to it (Escape) which may be better (I didn't go but two friends did after they were advised by two different people). Pllek was also pretty cool, worth checking out and only takes 10 minutes on the ferry. We went during the day though so I'm not sure what it is like in the evening.
 
Flying Pig Downtown is the best hostel I've stayed at in Europe. And I've stayed at a lot.
However, I organised a stag do in Berlin last month. We used airbnb and got an apartment that slept ten. It was ideal. I'd have a look on there if I were you.
 
Hanns Brinker, check their website, so funny :D

We got an 8 bed dorm, was fine, great base, underground club and bar were quite good fun and busy plus happy hour. Didn't bother with any of the food.

Places can be a bit funny with stag's, they never questioned us though but a lot of places say no.
 
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