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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The family has a layover in Amsterdam, our flight arrived early morning. I read the train goes into center city. Is it enough time to eat breakfast, take a few pictures, and possibly go to a coffee house and be back at the airport for a 1 pm flight[/quote]

If you want to try to do this, try seeing if you can ask the airport people how the security lines are when you’re actually in the airport.

If they say the outbound and inbound lines are short, go for it.

It not: Schiphol is really a city unto itself. The shopping center, museum and hotel inside the airport are more like the real, practical, George Mason University-like Netherlands than the bits of fake Georgetown-ish city center crap they’ve saved for the tourists.

If you can escape from the airport, just take a cab to the shopping area in Hoofddorp — https://www.viermeren.nl/praktische-info/contact-route/ — instead of trying to get into the middle of the Amsterdam tourist zone.

The shopping center will be familiar enough that you’ll be able to figure it out but different enough that it will be an adventure, and you won’t have to worry about a tour schedule or getting your money’s worth out of a museum pass. Go, visit the toy store buy a few souvenirs, eat, and return to the airport.

Just make sure when you go to places that you have some euros, and that the places will take cash, or that you can use an American credit card or debit card to pay for things. The ATMs usually take U.S. debit cards, but some places have moved away from cash and want a special kind of cash card that tourists can’t get. [/quote]

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