Originally Posted by
altabello
Layover could be 5 hours or 8 hours. I would love to walk through the downtown/red light district for a bit and have lunch at a Thai restaurant I loved over 20 years ago...thanks for your response!
I would go for 8 hours to allow you some 'proper' time in the city, depends on when that put your AMS-BCN flight and whether you have status dictates how early you should be at the airport.
With status, you can safely leave AMS centraal about 1h45-2 hours before your flight, without status I would recommend 2.5 hours.
I think checking bags through should be fine, otherwise allow extra 30 minutes.