Central Station is the beginning and the ending for many holidays. including ours. If like us the first place on Dutch soil you’ll be setting foot is Central Station, then it’d kinda help to know your way around this rather large station.
Filled with eateries and fast food outlets, Central Station is something your guaranteed to find something to eat. Even if you can’t find anything else in the rest of Amsterdam to eat.
Central Station is the meet and greet place for Amsterdam. Trains from the airport arrive here as well as the coaches from the ferry. Making it a perfect place for a meeting point. Trams,buses and taxis all frequent Central Station.
Should you arrive from Schiphol into Amsterdam, then be prepared to walk down a few stairs or grab the escaltor until you reach the ground floor. (The floor that everyone seems to be on.) Here you’ll find shops,cafes and small shops to pick up some great info from.
All the trams in Amsterdam end up at Central Station at one point or another. Whether their just starting out their journey, or coming to an end. If you know where Central Station is, your less likely to get lost.
Easy enough to locate, Central Station is known by all the locals and many tourists alike. (Especially if they are veteran tourists of Amsterdam.) Making it less hassle to find your way around and get to where your going, as long as you know where Central Station is.
If you decide to travel to Central Station via train, then expect to be confronted with a fair amount of graffiti, Not exactly what the travel brochure may have offered you, but it’s there anyway so you may as well take advantage of the graffiti on offer. Once you get closer to Amsterdam, it all makes much more sense and you start to recognise exactly what Amsterdam has to offer.
Central Station is easy to spot with it’s two clock towers standing out for miles around, although only one of them is in actual fact a clock tower. The clock tower reveals the time to anyone who wants to know it and can see Central Station at the time. Where as the other tower which looks like a clock, Is in fact a weather vane.
If the last place your going to be in Amsterdam is Central Station, then you may consider hiring baggage storage. For just €4-5 you can rent a space within the station that only you have the key to. Perfect for when you’ve had to check out of your hotel early, but your not intending to travel until later that day. Ideal for someone with a lot of bags, but no patience to carry them around.
For departures from Central Station to other parts of the city, the last tram leaves at 12:15 in the morning, with hourly bus routes that run after that.
