Voyagers

[Uncle Ron]

I had an appointment with the good doctor, Dr. Grinspoon that is. Very, very nice gear. Sorry, no pics, was too wasted to give a damn...

Although the shop is looking a little rough, I will definitely return. Maybe with increased patronage the owners will give HB some cash to fix it up. Yeah right.
I for one will give HB all the support and time he needs to fix the place up. I know he will do a great job because he did it with Bagherra. Their loss, Voyager's gain.

Shout outs:
Much thanks to Andy (HB) and Ryan for the boat ride...
To the very nice lady working the counter, you are AWESOME. Sorry I don't remember her name.

Happy voyaging...

[Dave J]

Done this place during my cs crawl on monday (18th) evening and out of all the cs's I visited during that day this 1 stood out as having staff who really are friendly and who will take time to have a quick chat even if they are busy.

HB, what can I say thats not been said, a total top guy who would benefit any CS he may run either now or in the future. Someone who really does know his scene and can get to know as a fried you'd go the pub with than a dealer in a cs.

As for the cs itself, well put it this way, I dont like to see my cs's look like they have just been built with everything looking brand new, untouched and like you have to watch you dont spill anything on the decor. This cs certainly is far from new or high grade decor, which is a very posative for me. If HB ever does the cs up, please dont make it look to new as there is not to much wrong that a darker shade of paint cant correct. A larger cs area would be good to see if possable as it is a prety much tiny place compared to others. 2 tables and what a total of what 12 seats & 14 bodies in the place?. Sure there is seating outside for which the location certainly benefits from that many a cs wont.

Overall great place for the weather prehaps not for a large group. But for the trip deffo in my top 5 faverate ever cs's seeing as I\we went there a good 3 times.

[ftcarer]

It's in my top 3 with Betty Boop & Paradox , what else can be said , great people , great menu, fucking wicked times .
Boat trips , imo, everyone SHOULD try it , outstanding
Can't praise Mr&Mrs HB & the Voyagers team enough , see you all next trip

[Ash333]

It's weird how some places get rave reviews by some, and then others would never go back.


I went into Voyagers this morning, around 11am. Asked for HighlyBlessed, introduced myself, smiley, pleasant, (being as nice as I'd like them to be!) and was basically ignored (too busy counting money) - great start.
I looked at the 3 lowest pricest buds - the Powerplant stuck out as the nicest looking and smelling, so I chose a nice looking bud from the top.
let me ask you, how you'd feel if you were asked to pay EUR15 for a bud that by weight/menu price should cost EUR14.40, and it has a massive woody stem attached?
This was the problem I had just today at Voyagers. When asked why it was more (or if it was discountable), apparently it was 1.85g (which would be 14.80) not 1.8g, yet the scale didnt read that. The girl behind the counter didn;t look or sound very confident, so I asked her take the stem off to make it weigh fairly, which she blanked and mumbled back at me, so I took the stem off(having already said I;d buy it, just thinking they'd messed the price up a bit... and before I'd had a chance to read the scale, I get shouted at by a 6foot something (I'm 5'11', and he was towering over me) enormous guy that 'You've clearly never been in a coffeeshop before, I think you;d better leave!' This was whilst I was holding a 50Euro note, to which I said "Fine, if you don't want my money...' put the money away and left.

It's weird, theres a part of me that would love to see their entire menu, but after being cunted off in there like that I'll never spend a penny. We all know some coffeeshops, that like to rip customers off a little. When they're being pulled up on it though, they've usually changed their tune in the past. I'd like to see highly blessed explain this one away.

[Ash333]

Just reread my previous post, and it does seem incredible to me, that after introducing myself as an experience smoker/forum user, I still get cunted off like this.
I mean, its over less than a Euro, surely they should keep me happy and keep me returning trip after trip? Maybe I should've let it go, but once you do that once the staff that're a bit sketchier remember it and it gets worse n worse - in my experience you lose lots more than a euro to these types of cunts after a few joints, with every gram being 0.8ish

[Dave J]

So you handled the gear on the scales before it being bagged & before paying for anything, proceeded to take the bud off the scales and take some of it (dont matter if a bit of stem) off?.

[Boner]

2 thumbs up from me, staff, weed and coffee great, once they've refurbed the hotel rooms it'll certainly be the best coffeeshop/hotel too stop in as well, shall be back to try that kushdee soon as well.

[geoffk]

I'd probably kick you out if you grabbed weed off my scale without paying first. You don't go grabbing food in a restaurant's kitchen. I'm not defending what went down prior.

[neovdr]

The part about picking off the stem was bad on your part I think. (even though you said you will buy it, a misunderstanding was the only sure thing to happen) HOWEVER the stem situation is starting to piss me off. It must be the female budtender to blame because she is not taking any stems off (and I had bought 5 g on my occasion). I don't care how insignificant the stems weight may be in the end but I do not like paying Voyager prices for woody shit. And it's a terrible shame though because the weed is very nice but with the high prices and the high stem ratio it becomes a bit out of reach...

[weedhog]

I can see your point Ash, although I believe you handled the situation badly...
I also went into Voyagers in March twice I believe. The first time HB was in there and while I didn't introduce myself he was decently friendly and the girl behind the bar did seem a little inexperienced and didn't know much about their products...but thankfully I read the reviews here and got some butter and lemon bio haze. The weed was ok the butter better. Overall this shop was just ok for me a little grimy but didn't bother me much.

[Ash333]

So you handled the gear on the scales before it being bagged & before paying for anything, proceeded to take the bud off the scales and take some of it (dont matter if a bit of stem) off?.

I handled gear I'd agreed to buy, after laying a EUR50 on the counter - I just wasnt happy about the way in which it had been weighed/price calculated. The girl actually got out a calculator and worked out the price. I actually thought the bud was good, and wanted to try a joint before buying a 5g bag. Meh, my euros weren't turned away anywhere else - I spent nearly 400 today without a hitch. I don't know about you guys, but I was taught in primary school how to make a calculator do the sum that is required. If the budtenderess can't do primary school maths, and doesn;t know about the buds, maybe, just maybe, she should be looking for a different kind of work.

Edited to add:
I've just been talking to a friend that I worked in retail with about this. He brought up a situation a few months ago where to two of us were out in a central London bar. The end of the night came, and we needed to pay by card. The waitress serving us was new, inexperienced and not very confident. She struggled for over a minute with the credit card machine, and as it was the same type that my friend and I were used to using in the shops we helped her out, and aswell as successfully processing our transaction we also showed her how the machine works. We were thanked warmly by her, and the manager gave us a couple more drinks for the road as a bit of a thank you.
I can't even imagine the bar manager storming over kicking us out for showing someone the ropes (for free!)

Maybe some of you guys are happy with the various ripoff's going around, or you don't know about them. Having been bitten in the past, I have no problem asking for something to be reweighed in front of me, speaking up when it seems needed, or buying nothing from a shop if nothing impresses me. Coffeeshops are drug dealers, and dealers arn;t known for their honesty, integrity etc.

[mattyp]

Definetly do not agree with that last sentence about coffeeshops being drug dealers and therefore are assumed to have dodgy people working there

[Ash333]

Definetly do not agree with that last sentence about coffeeshops being drug dealers and therefore are assumed to have dodgy people working there

Coffeeshops may be legally tolerated, but they are far from being properly regulated, or considered part of mainstream Dutch culture. Particularly in Amsterdam centrum the coffeeshops aim far more for the one time tourist euro than the repeat local/regular visitors. Many dealers (in coffeeshops and elsewhere) are known for being less than reputable.

[Kermit]

All the staff know there shit, trust me and as you never got to stay and have a chat with them you will never know what they know, and moaning over a bit of twig and a few Euros CENTS is pretty crazy then raving about how you spent E400 . Your pretty lucky coz even if you was intending to pay and had put your cash down and done that to me i would have chopped your hand off anyway.
The shop dont grow or trim, thats how they come, they pay for them, so we tourists pay for them, it is simple.
Your on your hols in Amsterdam when nearly everything flying around is quality and the sun is cracking, enjoy it.

[Boner]

The funny thing is I believe Ash went to Greenhouse where I'll presume he bought some goodies and probably lost more money from them being shady cunts as there is proof that their scales weigh under.