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re: Best area to stay in Amsterdam other than Centrum
Posted on 3/7/24 at 12:40 pm to Adajax
Posted on 3/7/24 at 12:40 pm to Adajax
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It'll be my wife and I (you don't want pics), two daughters (you ain't gettin pics) and a 5 yr old grandson (his pics are adorable). Taking a detour to Amsterdam was my idea, going to Spain ultimately, so I could visit Bruges and my uncles grave. We'll only have one and a half days to explore Amsterdam so I'm thinking we'll stay a bit outside the city and I'll rent a car. On the Amsterdam days, we'll park and ride. I was shocked by hotel and airbnb prices - I'm no OT or TB baller.
Train system is great. Uber is great. Or you just end up walking 20k+ steps/day! FYI.
FYI, we used the NS app, offered by the Dutch national railway company, NS. It's used by locals planning trips beyond Amsterdam to other cities in the Netherlands.
Also, there is the GVB app (Gappie) for local public transport systems, including trams, buses, metros, and ferries. Useful for trips within the city limits. I didn't use this one.
You can always just buy tickets at the kiosk.
RE: Prices. Look at link to Hotel Mai. We found it very affordable for Amsterdam.
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Posted on 3/7/24 at 3:43 pm to Nole Man
Def get the NS app!
Trains are decent but as someone who works in Schiphol area, I can confirm that on my office days the morning trains from Amsterdam Centraal to Schiphol run like clockwork.
However the trains back to the city in the afternoon/early evening are a shitshow these days, perpetually crowded and delayed, literally the reason I told my team lead I’d only be coming to the office one day per week.
I digress NS app is a great way for me to track the perpetual delays at Schiphol in real time, 9292 is another good transport app for multimodal transit (train-tram-bus) but Google Maps is also quite well synced with public transport schedules so that is a safe bet as always.
As for tickets, nowadays you can pay pretty much everywhere by card (if your physical card or phone have tap-n-go enabled) but word of warning you check in and out when boarding and disembarking.
Especially important because some stations like Schiphol don’t have the turnstiles gates to get in our out so either you forget to check in there and can’t get out the gates at Amsterdam Centraal or you forget to checkout there and you’re charged a full fare (I think like €30+ 1 way for trains and maybe like €5-€10 on GVB transit) - it’s mainly the trams and buses where it’s easy to forget to checkout that gets you.
The GVB metros are all turnstile protected.
Trains are decent but as someone who works in Schiphol area, I can confirm that on my office days the morning trains from Amsterdam Centraal to Schiphol run like clockwork.
However the trains back to the city in the afternoon/early evening are a shitshow these days, perpetually crowded and delayed, literally the reason I told my team lead I’d only be coming to the office one day per week.
I digress NS app is a great way for me to track the perpetual delays at Schiphol in real time, 9292 is another good transport app for multimodal transit (train-tram-bus) but Google Maps is also quite well synced with public transport schedules so that is a safe bet as always.
As for tickets, nowadays you can pay pretty much everywhere by card (if your physical card or phone have tap-n-go enabled) but word of warning you check in and out when boarding and disembarking.
Especially important because some stations like Schiphol don’t have the turnstiles gates to get in our out so either you forget to check in there and can’t get out the gates at Amsterdam Centraal or you forget to checkout there and you’re charged a full fare (I think like €30+ 1 way for trains and maybe like €5-€10 on GVB transit) - it’s mainly the trams and buses where it’s easy to forget to checkout that gets you.
The GVB metros are all turnstile protected.
This post was edited on 3/8/24 at 3:58 am
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