Take the train from AMS to the Central Station?
Jul 31, 2016, 1:25 pm
#106
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Flatland
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Be warned, bitterballen are hot. DO NOT put a freshly served one in your mouth and bite down, you will burn your mouth.
Instead pick it up with your fingers, dip one side in the provided mustard, bite off some of the side coating gently, let the steam escape and the filling cool down, then eat it.
Instead pick it up with your fingers, dip one side in the provided mustard, bite off some of the side coating gently, let the steam escape and the filling cool down, then eat it.
Aug 18, 2016, 7:27 am
#107
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Southwestern Va
Posts: 908
Hubs and I will be in Amsterdam for 2 days before departing on a river cruise. We are booked using points! at DoubleTree Central. Plane arrives 8:30am and we will probably take train to Central Station or maybe pre book thru Schiphol Hotel Shuttle for 17 eu each (if Shuttle do we tip the driver?) We will have 2 checked bags, 2 carryons. I have read the DT is centrally located to many of the things we want to visit, such as Anne Frank house, Red Light district (hubs wishlist) a canal cruise, restaurants. My question is, is all of these within walking distance of hotel or would we benefit from a bus pass?
Aug 18, 2016, 7:34 am
#108
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: CPT,AMS
Posts: 4,412
Hubs and I will be in Amsterdam for 2 days before departing on a river cruise. We are booked using points! at DoubleTree Central. Plane arrives 8:30am and we will probably take train to Central Station or maybe pre book thru Schiphol Hotel Shuttle for 17 eu each (if Shuttle do we tip the driver?) We will have 2 checked bags, 2 carryons. I have read the DT is centrally located to many of the things we want to visit, such as Anne Frank house, Red Light district (hubs wishlist) a canal cruise, restaurants. My question is, is all of these within walking distance of hotel or would we benefit from a bus pass?
Aug 18, 2016, 10:07 am
#109
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 7
We ended up taking the train and it was fine even with a large checked bag. Many of the folks on our train to Centraal had just gotten off the incoming international flights. Cost is 4,2 Euro. If weather is good I would go train.
We stayed on the other side of the station from the DoubleTree, I think you are actually closer to the station than we were. The canal cruises are right there, and so are the trams, metro and buses. We got GVB passes, but only used the trams, and they were very convenient. Red light district is very close. Anne Frank is a little bit longer, and if you end up at the Museums it's a longer walk still. GVB passes are 7,5 for 24 hours, 12,5 for 48 hours and 17 for 72 hours. You can buy them at the info center/ticket office just outside the central station, or often we found a van with a ticket window that sold tickets next to the tracks at Centraal. I heard you can buy tickets or passes on the trams themselves, but we didn't want to muck up the works fumbling with Euros as everyone is trying to get on behind us.
I would say this is how the locals make their way across town, but as someone else mentioned they probably ride bikes more often. We didn't get to do that during our short stay, but it would be fun in good weather.
We stayed on the other side of the station from the DoubleTree, I think you are actually closer to the station than we were. The canal cruises are right there, and so are the trams, metro and buses. We got GVB passes, but only used the trams, and they were very convenient. Red light district is very close. Anne Frank is a little bit longer, and if you end up at the Museums it's a longer walk still. GVB passes are 7,5 for 24 hours, 12,5 for 48 hours and 17 for 72 hours. You can buy them at the info center/ticket office just outside the central station, or often we found a van with a ticket window that sold tickets next to the tracks at Centraal. I heard you can buy tickets or passes on the trams themselves, but we didn't want to muck up the works fumbling with Euros as everyone is trying to get on behind us.
I would say this is how the locals make their way across town, but as someone else mentioned they probably ride bikes more often. We didn't get to do that during our short stay, but it would be fun in good weather.
Aug 18, 2016, 2:29 pm
#110
Join Date: Jun 2016
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We ended up taking the train and it was fine even with a large checked bag. Many of the folks on our train to Centraal had just gotten off the incoming international flights. Cost is 4,2 Euro. If weather is good I would go train.
We stayed on the other side of the station from the DoubleTree, I think you are actually closer to the station than we were. The canal cruises are right there, and so are the trams, metro and buses. We got GVB passes, but only used the trams, and they were very convenient. Red light district is very close. Anne Frank is a little bit longer, and if you end up at the Museums it's a longer walk still. GVB passes are 7,5 for 24 hours, 12,5 for 48 hours and 17 for 72 hours. You can buy them at the info center/ticket office just outside the central station, or often we found a van with a ticket window that sold tickets next to the tracks at Centraal. I heard you can buy tickets or passes on the trams themselves, but we didn't want to muck up the works fumbling with Euros as everyone is trying to get on behind us.
I would say this is how the locals make their way across town, but as someone else mentioned they probably ride bikes more often. We didn't get to do that during our short stay, but it would be fun in good weather.
We stayed on the other side of the station from the DoubleTree, I think you are actually closer to the station than we were. The canal cruises are right there, and so are the trams, metro and buses. We got GVB passes, but only used the trams, and they were very convenient. Red light district is very close. Anne Frank is a little bit longer, and if you end up at the Museums it's a longer walk still. GVB passes are 7,5 for 24 hours, 12,5 for 48 hours and 17 for 72 hours. You can buy them at the info center/ticket office just outside the central station, or often we found a van with a ticket window that sold tickets next to the tracks at Centraal. I heard you can buy tickets or passes on the trams themselves, but we didn't want to muck up the works fumbling with Euros as everyone is trying to get on behind us.
I would say this is how the locals make their way across town, but as someone else mentioned they probably ride bikes more often. We didn't get to do that during our short stay, but it would be fun in good weather.
Although it's fun to bike, it may not be the best idea for you if you are not experienced at biking. Other cyclists will go faster than you, and there's all kinds of vehicles on the bike roads, such as scooters, mopeds, 'bakfietsen' (a kind of bike with a large bin in front of it for cargo/children/etc.), etc. If you are in the way you will be cursed at and people will ring their bells angrily at you, haha.
Outside of rush hour, you can take your bike in the metro, but not in trams/busses. Taking your bike in the train costs 6 euros for a day, whether you go one station far or to the other side of the country, doesn't matter.
Aug 18, 2016, 3:55 pm
#111
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: mostly not far from AMS, otherwise NUE
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Aug 19, 2016, 2:49 am
#112
Join Date: Jun 2016
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A truly Dutch person prefers to bike, rather than pay for the public transport, if at all possible. Biking is free and gives healthy exercise to boot.
In my home town, I virtually never take the bus, except if I am going to travel further by train (parking bike at central station is a pain).