The best strategy is to become the doorman's buddy. This is accomplished by arriving a bit early on your first night in town, before 10 p.m. Stop in for a drink or two and on your way out, tip your new best pal 1 or 2 guilders. Do this at several places. It's a local's move and it will gain you VIP treatment on your return to the bars later in the evening. Clubs requires another trick.
Enforcement is spotty, often changing on different nights of the week.
Offer to buy a local a drink if they will escort you into one of the clubs. More information on an individual club's door policy is available in our Pub Clubbing section . With this hurdle cleared, you now are free to experience the wonderful world of PubClubbing, Dutch style. Yet with so many bars to visit, they make it easy to be mobile and the cumulative effect they have over the course of an evening can be quite intoxicating. Many are staffed by a women who keeps the WC from overflowing.