Rooms and doors of Zuidas
The district keeps office hours and then empties with remarkable speed, which is the single most useful fact about it for a booking. By eight in the evening the plazas are down to security guards and the occasional runner; the business hotels, meanwhile, are full of people who came for a two-day deal and now have a desk, a minibar and a view of other towers. These properties are modern, card-controlled and professionally discreet. Their lifts need a key, their front desks see a hundred visitors a day in good coats, and nobody asks any of them what they came to discuss. We plan around the lift. Once she is downstairs she messages you, and you either come down to meet her or send the lift, whichever the hotel prefers. For readers flying out the next morning, the district adds one more advantage: from Station Zuid the train reaches Schiphol in under ten minutes, so a late session here does not cost an early flight its margin.

