{"id":924,"date":"2018-11-24T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=924"},"modified":"2018-11-25T14:56:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T14:56:41","slug":"amsterdam-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam, first day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before leaving Barcelona, we got into the Airport early to check out a lounge, and yes, it was indeed worth it.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

After eating for a bit, we walked about 10 minutes to this Thai place:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/food.johnmatienzo.com\/2018\/11\/23\/na-siam\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

After getting liquor and resting a bit, we headed to the de Marktkantine to see the Magician DJ.<\/p>\n

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?).<\/p>\n

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