Everything closes early, don’t plan too much late night activities. Pre-purchase tickets

• Biking
• Windmills
• Van Gogh Museum
• Electric Ladyland - electric light museum
• Micropia - bacteria museum €17.5
• Kattenkabinet - cat art museum
• Rijksmuseum - best classic art museum €22.5

Iamsterdam card

Covers transit, bike rental, boat rental. Includes Micropia, Rijksmuseum, botanical garden,

Seems to break even, not worth it

World’s best escape rooms are within 1 hour of Amsterdam https://terpeca.com/2023/

• #1: Molly’s Game (narrative, spooky, 2-5 players, 80 minutes)
• #2: The Dome (puzzles, decor. 2-6 players, 60 minutes)
• #31: The Alchemist (puzzles, decor, 4-6 players, 90 minutes)

People I know speaking at one of the conferences: (? for unknown if remote or not)

• Josh Goldberg, arriving June 11
• Nathaniel Okenwa
• Rachel Lee Nabors
• Maya Shavin, arriving June 13
• Mark Erikson, arriving June 12
• Sylwia Vargas?
• Fred K Schott?
• Atila Fassina?
• Cat Johnson (remote)
• Hidde de Vries, lives in Rotterdam
• Tab Atkins, stuck here post CSSday
• Aquatinted with Una and Evan

Hostels

Looking for Hostels with curtains on the bed (pod style)

• St Christopher’s - US$83.82
• Durty Nelly’s Inn - US$97.04
• The Bee Hostel - US$78.75
• These prices ended up dropping to ~$50 closer to the trip

This one is fun but doesn’t have curtains: https://trainlodge.com/en/home-page/ - 33 EUR, sleep in a train car

Other areas in Netherlands

• Wadden Sea half day tour with seals and birds

Hauge, Rotterdam, Gouda

• Molly’s game escape room
• Capitol of Amsterdam
• Cube houses
• Euromast tower with abseiling
• Food labs restaurant inside railway tunnel. Open Wed-Sat, likely won’t work for my schedule this trip
• Het Nieuwe Instituut - Museum for Architecture, Design, and Digital Culture
• Kinderdijk windmill village
• Castle
• Sand dunes of loon
• Gouda cheese
• Gouda stroop waffle factory

Itinerary

• Friday: land, train to Rotterdam
• Friday or Saturday: escape room
• Saturday or Sunday: Gouda?
• Sunday: return to Amsterdam, go on seal tour in the afternoon
• Monday:
• Tuesday:

• Wednesday:

  • morning: Van Gogh Museum?
  • afternoon: checkin to Hilton, evening AmsterdamJS meetup
• Thursday, June 13: JSNation
• Friday: React Summit
• Saturday: Conference activities
• Sunday:
• Monday, June 17: fly back