ADE Special — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

21–21 Oct 2026 (1 day)

Location

Club NYX, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Sound

Electronic

Tickets

€795 · 1 tier tracked

The story

ADE Special is a electronic festival at Club NYX in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The October 2026 edition runs 21–21 Oct 2026.

Everything happens at Club NYX, in Amsterdam. Amsterdam is the base for the trip: it is where the affordable beds, the late trains and the after-parties are, and where prices climb fastest as the dates approach.

ADE Special keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 2026 for this edition, opening on a Wednesday and closing on a Wednesday. It falls in autumn, after the summer circuit closes, when flights and rooms come back down in price. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Amsterdam are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to ADE Special works out at roughly €994 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 80% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is bus · 7h 58m each way, at €57 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at ADE Special are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
3. 3Reserve 2 nights rather than 1: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow ADE Special on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Full line-up

Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2025

  21–21 Oct 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  21–21 Oct 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  21–21 Oct 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

• The site itself is Club NYX, in Amsterdam.
• Book a bed in Amsterdam early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• bus7h 58m · €57
• car6h 32m · €131
• air4h 6m · €138
• train4h 48m · €148