Rooms and doors of Buitenveldert
Accommodation here is mostly serviced apartments, short-stay flats and a few business hotels near the campus and the ring road. The apartment blocks are solid and well maintained, with lifts, wide corridors and large windows looking onto lawns and trees. Serviced apartments are often chosen by visiting academics, medical staff and consultants on long assignments at Zuidas. Hotels have staffed desks and parking. Evenings are very quiet: the shopping centre closes at night, a few restaurants remain open until about ten, and the avenues are nearly empty after that. Trams 5 and 51 connect the area to Zuidas and the centre. For a visitor on a longer work stay, the neighbourhood offers calm and comfort, and the privacy of a building where the neighbours rarely meet in the corridor. Visitors on long assignments sometimes admit that the neighbourhood is almost too quiet after a day of meetings, and that the evenings can feel long. That is often the moment a first message is written, from a sofa with a view of the trees, with the laptop finally closed for the day and nothing more to prepare for the morning.











