- How to get to Amsterdam from Moscow
- By plane to Amsterdam
- To Amsterdam from St. Petersburg
Amsterdam is an iconic city for many foreigners, including our compatriots. It is a symbol of inner freedom and brightness of life. This is a reminder that somewhere, not far away, on our continent, there is a place where a dull, colorless existence can sparkle with new colors, where one breathes deeply, where marijuana vapors forbidden in the rest of the civilized world float in the air and laughter is heard I will give you easy virtue. Amsterdam is almost Venice, only more streamlined in terms of the location of the canals. Here, as in the Italian city on the water, creative people also come for inspiration and self-expression, and ordinary people for impressions and emotions. We will tell you how to get to Amsterdam with the minimum cost of money and time.
How to get to Amsterdam from Moscow
There are many options for a route to Amsterdam from the capital of Russia. The most popular ones are:
- by plane to Amsterdam;
- by train or bus to Vilnius, Riga or Tallinn, from where budget airlines fly to the capital of the Netherlands;
- from Moscow's Vnukovo airport by plane of the WizzAir company for relatively little money (70-130 euros one way) fly to Budapest, from where by plane of the same company you can go to the Dutch city of Eindhoven, which has a railway connection with the capital;
- by train, which departs from the Belorussky railway station, to Amsterdam.
By plane to Amsterdam
Of all the possible options for how to get to Amsterdam from Moscow, flights are the most popular among tourists. Several airlines depart daily from Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. There are at least five direct flights per day. Direct flights to Amsterdam are offered by the carriers Aeroflot and KLM. The plane covers the distance between Moscow and Amsterdam in 3 hours 35 minutes.
You can fly to Amsterdam with one change, for example, in Riga, Prague, Warsaw, Vienna, Ljubljana, etc. A flight with a connection lasts at least 5 hours 10 minutes. Such a convenient flight was developed by the AirBaltic company with a stopover in Riga. The joint flight of Aeroflot and KLM carriers through Prague takes the same time. For 5 minutes longer, Czech Airlines planes fly through the same capital of the Czech Republic.
The minimum connection can be advised for those tourists who are in a hurry to quickly get to Amsterdam. Some travelers choose the connection, which takes 4-5 hours, in order to have time to walk along the streets of the transit city.
To Amsterdam from St. Petersburg
When choosing a way to move from St. Petersburg to Amsterdam, you should determine exactly what is more important for a tourist: to save time spent on the road, or money.
How to get to Amsterdam from St. Petersburg? You can use the following public transport:
- bus to the nearest European capitals + aircraft of low-cost airlines;
- train to a major European city + plane of a budget company;
- minibus to Finnish Lappeenranta + Ryanair discounter plane to Dusseldorf + bus to Amsterdam.
These are the cheapest travel options for Amsterdam.
Finally, there is a direct flight from St. Petersburg to Amsterdam Schiphol, which is operated by the KLM airline twice a day. You will have to spend exactly 3 hours on the way. If you wish, you can choose a flight with one connection in Riga (AirBaltic carrier), Hamburg (joint flight of Aeroflot and KLM), Helsinki (joint flight of Finnair and KLM companies), Stockholm (SAS), Warsaw ("LOT"), etc.
