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Amsterdam

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Getting There By Rail


Rail Services
Centraal Station, Stationsplein, is one of the largest railway terminals in Europe. The station has an impressive array of facilities, from showers and restaurants to hotel and travel-booking services. The national rail provider is NS (tel: 0900 202 1163; www.ns.nl), which runs an efficient network with frequent services covering destinations all over the Netherlands and further afield into the rest of Europe.


Rail Operators
There are regular Eurostar trains (www.eurostar.com) from London to Brussels, where a direct connection to Amsterdam can be caught after a short wait (journey time - 3 hours). THALYS (tel: 0900 9296; www.thalys.com) runs high-speed services connecting Amsterdam with Brussels (journey time - about 2 hours 30 minutes). There are frequent daytime services from many large western European cities as well as night services. More express train links to other European cities are currently under consideration.

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Interesting facts about Amsterdam
Location: Noord-Holland, The Netherlands.
Dialling code: 31.
Population: 758,198 (city); 1,364,422 (metropolitan area) (2009).
Time zone: GMT + 1 (GMT + 2 from last Sunday in March to Saturday before last Sunday in October).

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Entry/Visa/Health

Check your specific situation. For example you are a citizen of Spain, live in Germany and want to enter Canada. Or you are planning a trip with multiple stopovers in diifferent countries. Which entry and health regulations apply to you? You can find out the varying regulations here: here (in Englisch).