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Old Oct 11, 2013 | 3:13 pm
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Originally Posted by milepig
Finally, put a little airplane symbol on all the trains going to Schiphol, Frankfurt has figured out how to do this for any train going to FFM Flughafen, makes it all pretty idiot proof.
This part you can't complain about because they do have the airplane symbol for trains that go to Schiphol. From anywhere in the country. And at Amsterdam Centraal, there is a dedicated Airport monitor when you walk in that shows all the trains going to Schiphol.

As for the rest, I agree it might be tough for a jet-lagged tourist, but for regular business travelers you ought to be able to sort it out by your 2nd or 3rd trip. As I noted above there is a dedicated NS agent sitting at a desk right in the middle of the hall directing people to their trains. Ditto for many other big train stations in the Netherlands. The agent probably gets asked a thousand times per day "which track for the train to Amsterdam?"

And in my case I made it a priority years ago to get a local PIN card so I have no worries with buying train tickets and lots of other things in the Netherlands.
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