Muziekgebouw Eindhoven in Eindhoven

Hertog Jan Hall, classical

1,250 seats

Hertog Jan Hall, pop, jazz and global

1,097 seats

Hertog Jan Hall, seated-standing

About 1,650 places

Small Hall

385 seats

The Hertog Jan Hall seats 1,250 people for classical concerts and 1,097 for pop, jazz and global concerts; with the first seven rows removed for standing, about 1,650 people fit. The Small Hall seats 385.

Seated for classical concerts, the Hertog Jan Hall holds about 300 more people than the Parktheater's Hertog Jan Zaal (952 seats) in Eindhoven and about 700 fewer than the Concertgebouw's Grote Zaal in Amsterdam (1,974 seats). The hall is 44 m deep, 33 m wide and over 20 m high.

For concerts with assigned seats you pick your seat on the seat map after choosing the number of tickets. Prices depend on the section, shown on event pages as Premium or Rank 1 (Rang 1), and differ per concert.

As the photo at the top of the page shows, the seating faces the stage in a large stalls area, with side balconies and higher tiers around and behind it. At pop concerts the first seven rows can be removed to create a standing floor in front of the stage, so a standing ticket means the front of the hall. The hall is 44 m deep and 33 m wide, so the rear seats are a long way from the stage.

Standing-and-seated concerts work differently: only a limited number of seats exist and the first visitors in choose where to sit or stand. The same goes for free-seating concerts, where nothing is reserved, so arrive on time for the best places.

• Closest to the stage: the front of the stalls floor, or the standing floor at pop concerts, where the first seven rows are removed.
• Best overview: the balconies and higher tiers around the stalls look down on the whole stage, which suits orchestras, but the hall is 44 m deep, so the rear is far from the stage.
• Price: Premium and Rank 1 (Rang 1) are the seat categories on event pages and differ per concert, so compare them on the seat map.
• Free seating: go into the hall as soon as the doors open, 15 to 30 minutes before the start.
• Wheelchair: places are marked on the seat plan; book by phone or at the ticket office.

1. The building opens 60 minutes before the start; for an evening concert the foyer is open from 19:15.
2. The hall doors usually open 15 to 30 minutes before the start. Standing-and-seated concerts are the exception: their hall doors open 60 minutes before.
3. Most evening concerts start at 20:15, with doors at 19:15. Afternoon concerts start at 12:00 or 14:15 and lunchtime concerts run from 11:30 to 12:30.
4. Neither the venue nor its concert pages give end times. What the pages do show is the shape of the evening: classical and many other concerts have an interval, and the concert page states when an interval drink is included. A 20:15 start with an interval therefore means leaving late in the evening, so plan your way home: there are trains after the concert, an extra late train around 01:00 on Friday and Saturday nights to Rotterdam and Utrecht, and night trains roughly every hour.
5. Arrive on time: late visitors are not always admitted, and at classical concerts you may have to wait until the interval.

From Eindhoven Centraal, leave by the 'centrum' exit and walk into the centre: the venue gives the walk as 5 minutes. Buses from the station stop at Witte Dame, 18 Septemberplein and Keizersgracht, though the venue itself says walking is often the simplest option.

Trains run until late: on the nights of Friday to Saturday and Saturday to Sunday an extra late train (around 01:00) runs between Rotterdam and Eindhoven and between Utrecht and Eindhoven, and night trains run roughly every hour after the last regular train. A night train ticket costs the same as in the daytime. The centre can be busy on Friday evening (late-night shopping), Saturday and Sunday, so allow extra time.

• From Amsterdam Centraal, Utrecht or Rotterdam the train takes about an hour to an hour and a half, plus the 5-minute walk; there is no need to change trains.
• Coming from Utrecht: four Intercity trains an hour by day, two an hour before 06:30 and after 23:00.
• Coming from Schiphol: direct trains run every half hour by day.

Through the venue's ticket shop you can book discounted parking at the Q-Park garages in the centre and save up to €10; the discount applies to entry from 18:00.

None of the sources lists a separate evening tariff for Q-Park Heuvel: the per-15-minute rate of €0.50 to €1.10 and the maximum of €24.00 a day apply, and Centrum Parkeren shows no evening rate. Q-Park's own Heuvel page lists no tariffs online, so the exact rate at your arrival time is the one on the pay machine, and the pages do not say whether the €24.00 maximum counts per 24 hours or per calendar day.

• Q-Park Heuvel is open 24/7 and has 1,143 spaces, 4 of them for disabled visitors; the clearance is 1.90 m. Q-Park Hooghuis has 150 spaces (clearance 2.00 m), Centrum De Admirant 347 (1.99 m), Q-Park Stadhuisplein 306 (2.10 m), Q-Park Witte Dame 246 (2.10 m) and Q-Park Kennedyplein 796 (2.00 m).
• Parking near Heuvel 140 is paid; the venue's offer is a discount of up to €10 at the Q-Park garages in the centre, valid for entry from 18:00.
• Going to a concert at the partner location DOMUSDELA (Paterskerk and De Kapel, Kanaalstraat 4)? The venue names Parking DLL opposite, and Q-Park Heuvel next to Muziekgebouw Eindhoven.