Travel times are limited to from Monday til Friday after 09:00 and all day on the weekend. The ticket usually includes a return ticket for the day to/from Rotterdam and the entrance fee. Fancy seeing animals from all around the world? The NS’s own Spoordeelwinkel is selling tickets for Blijdorp Zoo for as little as 27 euros. This may not make your train journey more pleasurable, but it will certainly make it cheaper.ġ. But that’s why I’m here! Below you will find short list of places to buy discounts tickets. These cards can sometimes save you a fortune, depending on where you are going. The good newsĮvery year, the NS sells discount cards through local retailers. A little while ago I stumbled upon this website and was pleased to discover alternative ways to buy train tickets. Again, not really aimed at tourists.įear not patrons, I cometh with good news. The best part is that there are different subscriptions that NS offers to their customers for even cheaper ways to travel. Tourists pay a premium for train journeys and are left with the impression that public transport is prohibitively expensive (it is). They need an OV-chipkaart in order to benefit from the cheaper rates afforded to the locals.
14 million! The unfriendly part is that tourists are unaware that their ticket out of the machine at Schiphol could be cheaper. In 2014 alone, nearly 14 million people visited the land of tulips and clogs. You may expect this from a country that is not known for its tourism, but not from the Netherlands. Why can’t tourists buy cheaper train tickets as well? What irks me though is not the fact that train tickets go up by 10% every six months, but that the entire experience from buying a ticket to riding the train is not tourist friendly.
It has been the butt of many jokes, the target of harsh criticism, and most likely a part of a grand scheme to regulate the Dutch population’s happiness. The NS is the bane of every traveler’s existence. Not another rant about trains in the Netherlands? No, it’s about the Dutch train tickets. Let’s face it.
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