taxi's outside cental station

paulam · Post by **paulam** » Tue 14th Oct 2008 08:33 pm

hi everybody,was just panicing a bit because i think i need to get a taxi outside cental station to my hotel(jolly carlton),i just read some reviews about my hotel and its apparently a 20 minuet walk,now both me and my hubby have no sence ov direction and would deffo get lost and lose inportent smoking time lol,so is it easy to get a taxi outside or do i have to phone one and if they do have taxi outside are they safe and how much would it cost me do you think,sorry for all the questions
thank you guys/girls in advace
paula x

Boner · Post by **Boner** » Tue 14th Oct 2008 08:40 pm

The taxi will cost you quite a lot of money, have you though about using this service? http://www.schipholhotelshuttle.nl/site/home.asp they leave from the airport and drop you off at the door of your hotel, €22 euro return fee per person, if I'm stopping at a hotel listed I always use them.

geoffk · Post by **geoffk** » Tue 14th Oct 2008 08:46 pm

If this is your hotel: http://www.hotels.nl/amsterdam/jollycarlton/map/ then Trams 16 or 24 should work. I think there might be a couple of others, but I used those quite a bit. Skip the taxi, trams are easy. The walk is pretty easy too. Might not be fun if you've got big luggage though.

paulam · Post by **paulam** » Tue 14th Oct 2008 08:46 pm

Boner wrote:The taxi will cost you quite a lot of money, have you though about using this service? http://www.schipholhotelshuttle.nl/site/home.asp they leave from the airport and drop you off at the door of your hotel, €22 euro return fee per person, if I'm stopping at a hotel listed I always use them.

thank you so much for the link,now do you just wait outside the airport for it or do you have to book it first

echc1 · Post by **echc1** » Tue 14th Oct 2008 08:47 pm

being in the trade i can assure you i'd ring for a cab....iv tried the ones outside.......not very good at all and expensive.....i nearly ended up doing the driving..........tried to take my group the wrong way,he knew where it was as i had to show him on a map.......then tried to hit me with rate 4 super-rate...dumb...he ended getting what it was worth....i felt like poacher turned gamekeeper

paulam · Post by **paulam** » Tue 14th Oct 2008 08:48 pm

geoffk wrote:If this is your hotel: http://www.hotels.nl/amsterdam/jollycarlton/map/ then Trams 16 or 24 should work. I think there might be a couple of others, but I used those quite a bit. Skip the taxi, trams are easy. The walk is pretty easy too. Might not be fun if you've got big luggage though.

i really dont like trams i took a whitey on one the last time i was there 12 years ago,thanks for your repile tho

paulam · Post by **paulam** » Tue 14th Oct 2008 08:50 pm

echc1 wrote:being in the trade i can assure you i'd ring for a cab....iv tried the ones outside.......not very good at all and expensive.....i nearly ended up doing the driving..........tried to take my group the wrong way,he knew where it was as i had to show him on a map.......then tried to hit me with rate 4 super-rate...dumb...he ended getting what it was worth....i felt like poacher turned gamekeeper

thats what i was scared ov,some weird taxi driver take us on a detour and ripping me off

echc1 · Post by **echc1** » Tue 14th Oct 2008 08:58 pm

try to make sure they are locals ...this one i got was turk/egyptian...when you prebook..get a price agreed beforehand,it's cheaper...and watch for touts at schipol and avoid them...i personally use the excellent public transport systems rather than the expense now

Boner · Post by **Boner** » Tue 14th Oct 2008 11:49 pm

paulam wrote:
Boner wrote:The taxi will cost you quite a lot of money, have you though about using this service? http://www.schipholhotelshuttle.nl/site/home.asp they leave from the airport and drop you off at the door of your hotel, €22 euro return fee per person, if I'm stopping at a hotel listed I always use them.
thank you so much for the link,now do you just wait outside the airport for it or do you have to book it first

You just get it at the airport, as you're walking through Schiphol keep heading left past the counter where you get the train tickets there's a little booth where you go and buy the ticket.

Ash333 · Post by **Ash333** » Sat 18th Oct 2008 03:25 pm

Take the train from Schipol to Amsterdam Centraal. Its really quite hard to mess this bit up, and its been well documented before so I won't go into huge amounts of detail.

From Amsterdam Centraal, its a good idea to know where your hotel is. Yours is, if I've googled correctly just south of Rembrantplein. I'd suggest you have a good look at google maps, and print an ACD Map.

I'd personally stroll down through town, and it'd take between 15-30 minutes depending on my route and speed, but there are trams running to Rembrantplein all day, so if you have heravy bags that might be the better option for you.

Does anyone know which tram runs south from CS to Waterlooplein/Rembrantplein/Thorbeckplein?

courtjester · Post by **courtjester** » Sat 18th Oct 2008 03:45 pm

I'd take the train to Centraal Station and the No. 4 or No. 9 tram to the Amstelstraat stop, right across from the Flower Market, just before it hits Rembrandtplein. It virtually stops at your hotel door. The No. 16, No. 24 and No. 25 trams drop you just a little bit further down Vijzelstraat. All six of them also drop at Muntplein, just before your hotel.

I got seasick once, but I didn't stop getting on ships because of it. If you're going from the airport, to the train station, to the tram, there's little likelihood of catching a whitey in between. One bad experience 12 years ago -- probably more attributable to something you did, whether it was bad food, or booze, or weed that made you woozy -- isn't a great reason for so severely cramping your ability to move about the city.

I've never had any application for hiring a taxi in Amsterdam.