Moulin Rouge vs Amor Rosso (the Old Hospital Bar): Prices, Hours and What You Get

Posted on: September 28, 2026

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Moulin Rouge vs Amor Rosso: pick a seat, or pick a bar

Moulin Rouge vs Amor Rosso is the Red Light District choice people still get wrong, because half the internet calls Amor Rosso the Hospital Bar. The nurse-themed bar those listings describe is gone.

Choose badly and you pay for a seat when you wanted a drink, or turn up at a bar with no running order when you wanted a stage. Below I put both doors side by side: price, hours, and what the ticket actually covers.

Two doors, one canal

Both venues sit on Oudezijds Achterburgwal, the canal that runs down the middle of the district. Moulin Rouge is at number 5-7. Amor Rosso is at number 97, with the Banana Bar at number 37 between the two.

I walk the stretch between them in about three minutes, and so will you. Do not take a taxi for that. If you are planning a route, our Red Light District map shows both doors and everything in between.

The Hospital Bar name is gone

The venue at Oudezijds Achterburgwal 97 now trades as AMOR ROSSO – BY CASA ROSSO, and the new name is on the front of the building. Same address, same phone number, +31 (0)20 627 89 54. The old hospitalbar.nl web address redirects to the Amor Rosso site.

The address kept trading. By late May 2026 a neighbourhood festival listing was already describing it as an erotic bar with signature cocktails, a DJ, pole dancers and drag queens. Whether the doors stayed open through the changeover was never published, and nor was the changeover date, so treat anyone who quotes you a day as guessing.

What the Hospital Bar used to be

The Hospital Bar ran a medical theme, and it ran it hard. Dancers in nurse outfits served the drinks, worked the pole and sold lap dances that a “doctor” theatrically prescribed, with hospital beds used as seating. Third-party listings from that era put entry at around €25 including one drink, with doors from roughly 19:00 to 02:00, and to 03:00 at weekends.

Those numbers are dead. Do not turn up at 97 expecting them, and ignore any listing still quoting around €25 and nurse outfits.

	Hospital Bar (until 2026)	Amor Rosso (now)
Concept	Hospital theme: nurses, hospital beds as seating, lap dances “prescribed” by a “doctor”	Erotic cocktail bar with pole dancers, drag queens and a DJ
Entry price	Listings of the time quoted entry at around €25 with one drink; how you bought it was not recorded	Entry sold online through the venue’s own website; door policy not published
Performers	Dancers in nurse outfits who served drinks and worked the pole	Pole dancers and drag queens, no theme
Extras	Lap dances sold inside, separately from entry	Not published by the venue
Name on the building	Hospital Bar	AMOR ROSSO – BY CASA ROSSO

The ownership thread explains the new name. The Banana Bar’s own history page names Jan Otten, the Red Light District entrepreneur who died in 2024, whose group also runs Casa Rosso, the Erotic Museum, the peep show and the bar at number 97 that traded as the Hospital Bar. Amor Rosso signs itself “by Casa Rosso”, so the family connection is now on the facade rather than buried in a company record.

Price and what is included

This is where the two venues really split. Moulin Rouge sells you a show and lets you buy drinks separately. Amor Rosso sells you a room with one drink already in the price.

Money question	Moulin Rouge	Amor Rosso (ex-Hospital Bar)	Banana Bar (for scale)
Entry from	€40 per person, higher on Thursday to Sunday evenings	From €39 per person booked online, checked September 2026. The booking page shows the price in your own currency, so it reads as about $44 in US dollars	€50 per person
Drinks included	None. You buy at the bar or from a server inside	One drink included in the ticket	Four
What the price buys	A seat and a programme of roughly 50 minutes	Entry to the bar, with the ticket valid for 8 hours	60 minutes inside
How you book	Online with instant confirmation and a mobile ticket, or at the door	Online through the venue’s own website; the ticket terms name skip-the-line entry	At the door only
Cancellation	Standard tickets are generally non-refundable; optional refund protection can be added at checkout	Free cancellation up to 24 hours before, per the ticket terms	No booking exists to cancel
Paying at the door	Yes, at the same price. Off-peak you can often walk up; Thursday to Sunday a stage-side seat is not guaranteed without booking	Not published by the venue	The only way in
Drink prices inside	Bar menu prices, not published online	Not published	Nothing else included

Read that €40 at Moulin Rouge as a floor, not a total. Thursday to Sunday evenings cost more, and every drink is extra. For the wider picture, our Red Light District prices overview puts all of this next to the rest of the neighbourhood.

Opening hours, age limits and the door rules

Moulin Rouge opens earlier at weekends, which is useful if you want the show done before dinner. Amor Rosso keeps one set of hours all week. Both run until 02:00.

At the door	Moulin Rouge	Amor Rosso (ex-Hospital Bar)
Address	Oudezijds Achterburgwal 5-7	Oudezijds Achterburgwal 97
Opening hours	Mon-Thu 20:00-02:00, Fri-Sat 16:30-02:00, Sun 18:00-02:00	Daily 20:00-02:00
Format	Seated erotic theatre, about four live acts of roughly ten minutes, rotating through the evening	Cocktail bar rather than a theatre, with a DJ, pole dancers and drag queens reported at the address. The venue does not publish whether you sit or stand
Fixed start time	No fixed curtain. About four acts of roughly ten minutes rotate all evening, so you join the running order and see a full cycle of about 50 minutes	No
Age limit	18+, official photo ID checked at the door	18+ under the ticket terms; the venue publishes no age rule
Dress code	None. Casual is normal	Smart casual, stated on the venue’s own site
Photos and filming	Not allowed inside	No policy published
Accessibility	Stairs; not suitable for wheelchairs	Not published

Carry a passport or ID card. Moulin Rouge checks official photo ID at the door, and Amor Rosso publishes no age rule of its own, so take ID there too rather than find out. The wider street rules, including the fines for photographing the windows, are in our guide to Red Light District laws.

What Amor Rosso does not publish

These gaps matter, because they are exactly what people stop me on the street to ask.

• A price in euros. The venue’s own pages carry a Get tickets button but show no entry price before you reach the booking step.
• Whether you can still walk up and pay on the spot without a ticket.
• Drink prices inside, and which drink the included one covers.
• Whether lap dances are still sold, and at what price.
• Whether the room has seating, or whether you stand all evening.
• Whether the eight-hour ticket window allows you to leave and come back.
• Any photography or filming policy.
• The exact date the Hospital Bar name came off the building.

What the ticket terms do state, checked September 2026: 18+, one drink included, eight hours of validity, skip-the-line entry and free cancellation up to 24 hours before. That is the only written commitment attached to the place. If any of the gaps above would spoil your evening, ring the bar on +31 (0)20 627 89 54 before you walk over.

What you actually see inside

Moulin Rouge: a programme you join, not a curtain you catch

You sit down, the lights drop and the acts rotate. Expect roughly 50 minutes of programme, about four live acts of some ten minutes each, running through the evening. Arriving at 21:40 works as well as arriving at 20:00, because you join the running order rather than a start time.

The acts stay on the stage and you stay in your seat, and drinks come from the bar or from a server during the show. That fixed format, with a price and a length you know before you walk in, is the biggest practical difference between these two venues. Our full Moulin Rouge Amsterdam review walks through the acts and the room in detail, or you can book Moulin Rouge tickets straight away.

Amor Rosso: a bar with things happening in it

Amor Rosso’s own site is thin. It publishes daily hours of 20:00 to 02:00, links to Instagram and TikTok, a Get tickets button and a photo of the facade with the new name on it. There is a guest note about a drag show night, but no schedule and no price appear anywhere on it.

A neighbourhood festival listing from May 2026 describes a signature cocktail, a DJ, pole dancers and drag queens at this address. That listing, rather than the bar itself, is the only description of what happens in the room. The ticket copy calls it a relaxed, sociable alternative to a sit-down show, which is a fair description of what you are buying.

There is no published schedule, so what you see depends on when you walk in. That flexibility is genuinely the venue’s strength. It is also why two people can visit on the same night and come away with completely different verdicts.

Six traps to know before you pay

• An Amor Rosso ticket covers entry and one drink. Nothing else is published: not the bar prices, and not whether lap dances are still sold. Ask what anything extra costs before you agree to it.
• There is no euro door price. The online price started from €39 per person in September 2026, shown as about $44 on the dollar storefront. No price is posted on the door or on the venue’s own website.
• €40 is not your Moulin Rouge total. Drinks are bought separately at the bar or from a server, and Thursday to Sunday evenings carry a higher ticket price.
• Old Hospital Bar information is everywhere. Listings quoting nurses, hospital beds, around €25 entry or a 19:00 opening are describing the venue before the rebrand. Ignore them outright.
• Phones stay away at Moulin Rouge. Photography and filming are not allowed inside. Amor Rosso publishes no policy at all, so ask before you lift a camera.
• No running order cuts both ways at Amor Rosso. What is happening in the room depends entirely on when you walk in. There is no published schedule to plan around.

If you came for the nurse era

If you want the old Hospital Bar formula – a bar, dancers, drinks bundled into one door price – the Banana Bar at number 37 is the nearest living equivalent. It charges €50 for 60 minutes with four drinks, door sales only (checked September 2026). It is on the same canal, between the two venues on this page.

Which one should you pick?

If this is you	Go here
You want to know exactly what you paid for	Moulin Rouge
You want a seat, a known price and a programme of known length	Moulin Rouge
It is a first visit and you want the classic Amsterdam sex show	Moulin Rouge
You want live sex on stage rather than striptease	Moulin Rouge. Live couple acts are part of the rotating programme
You want to arrive when it suits you and still see a full programme	Moulin Rouge
You want the whole cost settled before you sit down	Moulin Rouge
You want a drink in your hand and room to move around	Amor Rosso
You do not want to be tied to a programme at all	Amor Rosso
You want a drink included in the entry price	Amor Rosso
You are a couple wanting a bar rather than an audience seat	Amor Rosso
You want the old nurse-era formula: dancers and drinks in one door price	Banana Bar, 60 minutes for €50
You want the biggest, most theatrical stage in the district	Compare in our Moulin Rouge vs Casa Rosso piece

Amor Rosso wins on freedom. No seated theatre gives you a drink in your hand and the option to leave after twenty minutes. That is a genuine win for Amor Rosso.

Moulin Rouge wins on certainty. You know the seat price, the programme length and the door rules before you walk in, and you can book Moulin Rouge tickets in advance or pay the same price at the door. Thursday to Sunday evenings cost more than a Tuesday.

Doing both in one night

The two addresses sit on the same canal, so both in one evening is easy. Start at Moulin Rouge at number 5-7, then follow the water until the numbers reach 97. You pass the Banana Bar at number 37 on the way, which tells you that you are going the right way.

Neither venue runs to a curtain time, so the order is yours. Take the seat first and let the bar have whatever is left of the night. The Amor Rosso ticket terms give eight hours of validity against a six-hour opening night, so the window is longer than the bar is open, and nothing states whether it covers re-entry.

Two rules apply outside both doors. Do not photograph the windows or the women, and do not drink alcohol on the street: both carry on-the-spot fines.

Moulin Rouge vs Amor Rosso: frequently asked questions

Is Hospital Bar Amsterdam still open?

The building is still open, but not under that name. Oudezijds Achterburgwal 97 now trades as Amor Rosso, and the rebrand was in place by May 2026. The old web address redirects to the new one.

Is Amor Rosso the same place as Hospital Bar?

Yes. Same address, same phone number, and the same group behind the bar: the group built by the late Jan Otten, named on the Banana Bar’s own history page, which also runs Casa Rosso, the Erotic Museum, the peep show and the bar at number 97. Only the name and the concept changed; the address, the phone number and the ownership did not.

What is Amor Rosso Amsterdam?

It is an erotic cocktail bar on Oudezijds Achterburgwal, branded “by Casa Rosso”. You pay entry and one drink is included in the ticket, which the terms give eight hours of validity. Pole dancers, drag queens and a DJ have been reported at the address rather than scheduled as a show.

Why do old listings still describe nurses and hospital beds?

Because the changeover was never pushed out to the directories. The venue introduced itself locally as a new bar and redirected its old web address, but the listing sites, maps and review pages were never updated, so the old text survives. If a listing still describes nurses, hospital beds or around €25 entry, it is describing the venue before the rebrand.

How much does Moulin Rouge cost compared with Amor Rosso?

Moulin Rouge starts at €40 per person, more on Thursday to Sunday evenings, with drinks bought separately. Amor Rosso started from €39 per person online in September 2026 with one drink included, so the two sit within a euro of each other before you order anything.

Does the Moulin Rouge ticket have a start time?

The acts rotate through the evening, so you see a full cycle of about 50 minutes whenever you arrive within opening hours. There is no single curtain to be late for. Check your confirmation for whether your ticket names a date only or a date and a time.

Can I walk in to Amor Rosso without a ticket?

The venue does not publish a door policy, so I cannot promise you will get in without booking. It sells entry online through its own site, and that is the only route it names. Ring +31 (0)20 627 89 54 before you walk over on a Friday or Saturday.

Are there still nurses and lap dances at the old Hospital Bar?

The nurse outfits, the hospital beds and the prescribed lap dances belonged to the old concept and are gone. Pole dancing survived the rebrand. Whether lap dances are still sold, and at what price, is not published anywhere by the venue.

What time do Moulin Rouge and Amor Rosso open?

Moulin Rouge opens 20:00-02:00 Monday to Thursday, 16:30-02:00 Friday and Saturday, and 18:00-02:00 on Sunday. Amor Rosso publishes daily 20:00-02:00. Both sets of hours were checked in September 2026 and can change.

Is Amor Rosso couples friendly?

Yes. The ticket copy sells it as a relaxed, sociable alternative to a sit-down show, which suits two people who want to talk with a drink in hand. Moulin Rouge also takes couples, with the difference that you are seated and facing a stage.

What is the dress code and age limit at each venue?

Moulin Rouge has no dress code – everyday clothes are fine – and it is strictly 18+ with official photo ID checked at the door. Amor Rosso states a smart casual dress code on its own website, so leave the trainers and sportswear at the hotel. Amor Rosso publishes no age rule itself; the 18+ minimum comes from its ticket terms, so carry ID anyway.

Moulin Rouge or Amor Rosso: which should I book?

Book Moulin Rouge if you want a seat, a 50-minute programme and a price you can predict. Choose Amor Rosso if you want a drink in hand, no running order and the freedom to leave after twenty minutes. You can reserve Moulin Rouge tickets online with instant confirmation and a mobile ticket.

Written and checked on the street by the Amsterdam Red Light District Tour editorial team. Last updated: 28 September 2026. Prices, hours and door rules change without warning, so check before you travel.