Amsterdam airports

airports

The best known city in the Netherlands is Amsterdam, its capital. Charming city, with many canals and people walking bicycles, it is at the same time an old city, an old fishing village that time has transformed into one of the financial capitals of the world.

Amsterdam is small and is always among the most visited cities in the old continent, but how do you get there? What are the airports in Amsterdam?

Amsterdam

 Amsterdam

First, a brief reference to the city: It was founded in the XNUMXth century as a fishing village, on the banks of the Amstel River, which crosses it and gives it its name at the same time. It has a population of just under a million inhabitants, although when added to the population in the metropolitan area it reaches a million and a half.

Amsterdam, together with other cities such as The Hague, Ultrecht and Rotterdam, form a suburb called Randstad with around seven million inhabitants. The old town of Amsterdam was built in the XNUMXth century, it is the moment in which the channels that characterize it so much and that have given it another name, lto Venice of the North.

Although it is the capital of the country It is not the seat of parliament or the government or the judiciary because all that is concentrated in The Hague.

Schiphol International Airport

Schiphol Airport

this airport It was inaugurated on September 16, 1916, it is the most important in the country and one of the airports in Europe with the highest passenger and cargo air traffic. Its IATA code is and it is estimated that 52 million average passengers pass through here per year.

Schiphol Airport it is 9 kilometers southwest of Amsterdam, on the A4 motorway which in turn connects The Hague with Rotterdam. Regarding its structure, has an endIt operates 24 hours a day and has three levels: from top to bottom we have the boarding gates and VIP's, on the second level check-in and boarding, and on the ground floor are the arrivals and shipment.

Schiphol Airport

To go to or from the airport it is best to use the train, because it is the fastest and the cheapest. The station is under the airport and the trains that leave from this point, of the intercity service, go to the Amsterdam Centraal in a 15 minute ride at a price of around 5 euros if you buy the ticket in advance. If you go to Rotterdam, Breda, Venlo, Leiden or other cities there are more trains available and others that enter Germany and arrive at Bonn, Dusseldorf, Hannover, Frankfurt, among others.

At the station there are automatic machines to buy train tickets and there are also counters in Schiphol Plaza, but if you have the OV-chipkaart public transport card you can use it and jump on buses, metro and trams.

Now, do you prefer the bus? Amsterdam airport has an interesting direct bus network to many towns around. The stops of all the services can be found in the Schiphol Plaza, in front of boarding and arrivals. If your destination is the city center you can take line 397 which leaves really fast, it has a service every seven minutes, and stops at other places along the way such as Nieuw-Vennep, De Hoek or Rijksmuseum, just to name a few. It will take you 45 minutes.

Shiphol Airport

And obviously, the taxis they are always available 24 hours in front of Shiphol Plaza. There are taximeters, shared or private, and also executives. It takes only 15 minutes to the center but be prepared to pay around 50 euros. It can be cheaper Uber, legal here in the Netherlands. For that you must go to the Arrivals area and wait at exit door B.

Finally, if you are going to stay in Amsterdam you can take advantage and buy the Amsterdam Travel Ticket What is a special ticket? one, two or three days durationn that combines different means of transport and includes travel by train or bus from the airport to the metropolitan area. It allows you to use buses, metro, night buses and trams for rates from 17 euros for a day ticket, 22 for two days and 50 euros for three days.

My advice is that if you have any questions, visit the Amsterdam airport website because it is super complete and provides all kinds of information: from how to get to and from, to what to pack according to local airport security regulations, to what stores are inside.

Eindhoven Airport

Eindhoven Airport

Although Schiphol Airport is the most used by tourists and citizens of the Netherlands, there are others and one of them is Eindhoven Airport, which is the from where low cost companies and smaller airlines operate. It is the second most used airport, both for commercial and military aviation.

this airport is located in North Brabant and travelers can use the NS train to get to and from it, in a journey of around 90 minutes. They can also use the 401 bus which takes half an hour from Eindhoven station to the airport. if you fly by Ryanair, Transavia or Wizz Air You will surely arrive at this airport.

Eindhoven Airport it was opened in 1932 with a grass runway and by another name, Welschap. The Germans captured it as soon as they invaded the Netherlands and expanded and improved it by adding more tracks, this time paved. Later the Americans would arrive and after the reparations for the war it returned to the hands of the country in 1952.

Eindhoven Airport

The terminal for civil flights was built in 1984 and after the Fall of the Wall and the end of the Cold War the airport became a military transport base with many Fokker, Lockheed and Hercules planes parked. At the same time, civil aviation continued to grow and thus this airport became the second busiest in the country.

In 2012 it was renewed again with a hotel with 120 rooms and in 2019 opened its doors a Holiday Inn Eindhoven Airport is off the A2 motorway, well connected to the whole country and there are trains and buses serving passengers.

By the way, the Netherlands is a small country but it has many airports. In the list of Amsterdam airports we have prioritized these two, Shiphol and Eindhoven, but there are other options such as Rotterdam Airport, near the Shiphol. It only takes 40 minutes to get to Amsterdam by car and 90 if you use the train or bus.

There is also the Maastrich-Aachen Airport, in Beek, but it is cargo and is more than 200 kilometers from Amsterdam; and Groningen Airport, in Eelde, in the northeast of the Netherlands. It is a civil airport and is only used by Transavia, BMI and Corendon.


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