Before leaving Barcelona, we got into the Airport early to check out a lounge, and yes, it was indeed worth it.

We went to the Sala VIP Pau Casal lounge, and they had a lot of variety of food and drinks (both alcoholic and not alcoholic. Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pics. Also, one interesting thing is that is said it was only for Terminal 1 domestic flights, but we got in. I guess Amsterdam being part of the EU counts as a domestic flight.

We got into Amsterdam around 6pm, and then ubered it to our Hotel in the Rembrandt district (we stayed at the Eden Hotel, where I got a pretty good deal from Hotel Tonight).

After eating for a bit, we walked about 10 minutes to this Thai place:

http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2018/11/23/na-siam/

Afterwards, we spent some time looking for alcohol. Liquor is not as easy to get as say Barcelona. Supermarket/convenience stores usually only sell wine and beer. We did find a store in the Rembrandt district that did sell hard liquor (which closes at 10pm).

After getting liquor and resting a bit, we headed to the de Marktkantine to see the Magician DJ.

We also were able to procure some favors. Basically the way you do it is you ask people on the dance floor for a contact number. Now the tricky part is once you get the number, how do you text from a phone. They way you do it you dial + to “escape” the countries regular dialing system, then add 31 for Netherlands country code, then drop the first 0 of the number that is given to you (haha, not hard eh?).