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Yanks
Dorpsplein 2, Zandvoort |
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Zandvoort is the nearest North Sea resort to Amsterdam, has a big sandy beach and is really easy to get to by train.
Yanks is quite big with separate coffeeshop and bar sections and a nice patio outside which is great on a sunny day. The shop has an American Indian theme rather than the Yanks of its name.
Davide from Italy. Sent 2 Mar 2005.
I have been four times in Zandvoort during summer, and I slept always at the same hotel, the North Zea hotel (sorry for my bad Dutch). My hotel is very very near Yanks, and I have spent many morning, afternoon and evening in this coffee shop. I have, in 4 years, traveled a long among strange and odd coffee shop in Amsterdam but no one had the "charm" and "charisma" and friendship that I found in Yanks. I remember the piano with grass and hashish inside, the Indian tepee, and most of all, I loved sitting outside, in July, to see people go to sea, with sun that is so hot.
Korrupt from Germany. Sent 7 Aug 2004.
Very friendly staff, they got a very cool terrace with just a very small delimiter to the streets. You almost cannot miss Yanks.
Hessenmob from Germany. Sent 23 Jun 2004.
Very nice and big, Indian-style coffeeshop! Really friendly staff. They had about 8 weeds and 8 hashes for reasonable prices (White Widow is most expensive weed for 7€/gram. The weed I liked most was the "Silver Haze", "White Widow" was good, too. I also had some "Afgaan" which was ok. The "Bubble Ice" for 20€/gram had a nice taste, but really wasn't worth the money! Anyways a really nice and comfortable coffeeshop.
Pablo from UK. Sent 11 Apr 2004.
Wonderful coffee shop. Very relaxed non-heavy atmosphere.
Great selection of grass at good prices - the White Widow was awesome.
If you are in A'dam in the sun and have half a day to spare, pop over to Zandvoort.
Steve from USA. Sent 30 Mar 2004.
A 20 minute train ride from Amsterdam, a great European topless style beach nearby, and a spacious, friendly whimsically decorated coffee house - you're on a vacation aren't you? Yanks' interior is a wild, hand-painted Dutch eye view of Native American soul. I asked Tony, the proprietor, about it and he said the interior was painted by Dutch art students, partly financed with some kind of Dutch government arts grant. I'll leave it to the other folks to describe the strength of the smoke. The service was very friendly. Compared to Amsterdam, Zandvoort is an easy-going, not so crowded place (well, at least in April and May). One note: You'll see the piano with a lock on it where in the pre-legal days, the stash was kept. I told Tony "get the piano tuned! Get some musicians in here to play this thing. Great place for a live album".Ambience galore. Some pictures.
Andrew from USA. Visited July 2003. Sent 13 Dec 2003.
My girlfriend and I immediately fell in love with the area surrounding Yanks. Beaches to rival any I've seen, and friendly people. Yanks itself was a wonderful place, with the best weed we smoked on our whole trip. The power plant was the tops (only even approached by the Bluebird's Sage), and the bubble hash was strong enough to garner a warning from the counter help. We highly recommend this place; even if you've never heard of Zandvoort.
Gerry from USA. Sent 29 Nov 1999.
I think Yanks is the best coffeeshop in the world. It's about 4 blocks from the train station and about the same distance from the beach. The building is sort of a Log Cabin construction divided into 2 parts - a coffeeshop and a cafe/dancehall. It is really large, with tented booths downstairs and several areas upstairs. One of the rooms upstairs has Thai mat beds and short rolling tables so you can recline and roll. Downstairs there is an old upright piano. When you ask for the "menu", they open the top of the piano, and there's the stuff. The staff is really laid back in a
beachcomber sort of way, and it is the type of place to hangout day and night. Because they are in Zandvoort, there are not a lot of tourists, so the whole attitude is one of being a hangout for their clientele. Definitely the coolest coffeeshop I've found, and I've been to a lot!
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