Amsterdam Centraal or Sloterdijk station area?
For sightseeing in Amsterdam and traveling to Brussels, should we stay in Amsterdam Centraal area or can we stay at Sloterdijk station area?
How difficult and expensive it is to travel back and forth from Sloterdijk to Amsterdam Centraal?
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Staying in the central area, inside the canal rings, let's you easily walk central Amsterdam and for me that works better. I love walking the central city.
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How to get to Amsterdam central from Sloterdijk?
BUS: GVB bus 22 (Sloterdijk-Muiderpoort station) operates between Amsterdam Sloterdijk and Amsterdam Central station up to 9x hourly. The trip takes 25 minutes \u2013 this is slower than the train but can be useful for those with GVB tickets. During the night there is a GVB nightbus N81 running hourly.What is the train station called in Amsterdam?
Amsterdam Centraal railway station. Amsterdam Centraal train station or often referred to by locals as CS opened on 15 October 1889.How many train stations are there in Amsterdam?
Totally, there are nine Amsterdam train stations. The most important train station is, of course, Amsterdam Centraal.Amsterdam Sloterdijk to Amsterdam Centraal
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The travel angle is well covered in the other answers. From the tourist angle, I would say, it depends on what you like and want to do.
If you are the 'dinner, short travel, bed' kind of person, Sloterdijk is not bad.
But on the other hand, if you are a 'dinner, roam around, visit place to drink, visit place to listen to music, wander slowly to hotel' a central Amsterdam location will be better.
I would not even advice the Centraal Station area, but more near the Leidse plein area or around the places you will find your choice of music if not there.
Travel time to Amsterdam Centraal Station will be about the same as if staying close to Station Sloterdijk but your travel time and more importantly the ease of getting back to your hotel in the evening will make the difference.
Both areas will be safe enough, also late in the evening, but depending on the actual time of night, can feel a little deserted outside of business hours (Sloterdijk) or shopping hours, (Amsterdam centraal).
There will be public transport but the night trains do not stop at Sloterdijk, so from about 1:15 to about 5:15 you will be restricted to night buses. And those are on a one per hour schedule as far as I have found.
This is the site for all public transport in the country.
And this is the train site.
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