Hotel Torenzicht

10/06/2024

Red Light Jazz 2024 in Hotel Torenzicht, with Gumbo & The Monk 😃🎼🎸🎺🍻

11/06/2023

This weekend is the weekend of the 10th edition of the Red Light Jazz Festival. We are supporting this festival from the first edition, and are one of the locations where it’s taking place. This year we had La Ratte on stage and, as you can see in the video, a good time was had again by the audience watching them play their catchy blues songs 😃

02/06/2022

Finally! After 2 canceled editions due to Covid the Red Light Jazz Festival makes a strong comeback this year, also at Hotel Torenzicht. Tomorrow, Friday June 3rd, we have Gumbo & The Monk live on stage. We had them already at the 2019 edition, and now they’re back. The video’s show some footage of the 2019 RLJ version. So if you’re in for some raw Mississippi Delta Blues, or just want to have a good time, you’re welcome from 21.00 (or earlier of course). Free admission! 😃
And for those who didn’t know yet, the Red Light District is alive and kicking again like in the good old pre-Covid days! So no facemasks, distance rules, QR codes etc. etc. anymore. Life is gooooooood again! 😁

18/04/2022

26/07/2021

The Red Light District definitely has come to life again. When do we see you again?

27/04/2021

With great sadness we have to announce that, if we are opening up again in a while, 2 people who were part of the Torenzicht family are no longer among us. Hak, the most regular of the regulars, has passed away a few days ago and our barman Gerrit lost his battle with cancer a while ago. They will be missed very much, as both were, without any doubt, real colourful characters that helped Torenzicht becoming the unique place it is.
Everyone who ever visited Torenzicht knows Hak. Living just a few steps away from the bar, he dropped by literally every day, from the morning until the evening. Always sitting at his regular barstool in front of the window (and TV) at the canalside with his characteristic black beret, reading his newspaper, watching the comings and goings and chatting around. He was there for ages, as it seemed, and sometimes there were even rumours that he was sitting there already before the hotel was even being built 😆. He will be missed by all of us, we can truly say that a part of the bar has died 😥.
Gerrit has been working as a bartender in Torenzicht for more than 10 years. Before that, he was a regular guest already, so you can say that he turned his hobby into his career 😄. Always in a good mood, with a good sense of humour, he will be remembered by many as a unique and cheerful guy. Our thoughts go out to his wife and son who are staying behind, and have to move on without Gerrit.
We are convinced that there's a place up there, where there's a bar too, and where Gerrit still serves Hak his beers, sharing a joke or two. And Hak, well, most likely he has a regular stool in front of the window, where he can look down on what's going on in Torenzicht....
R.I.P. Hak and Gerrit. We will never forget you!

18/12/2020

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01/07/2020

Today the Red Light District became it's good old self again, with the reopening of the world famous "windows". And for a first day, foot traffic was definitely not bad at all! 😊

13/06/2020

Yes! We’re open again and the city is coming back to life. Isn’t it time to visit us again?

04/05/2020

There we are. Canal renovations outside completely finished, and then this sad sight. But we're counting down, this won't last forever. We'll be back!!!

De Oudezijds Achterburgwal op maandagochtend 4 mei 2020