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Day 1: BARCELONA - AMSTERDAM

Not yet 15 days have passed since we arrived from our trip to Iceland and today we return to the airport of Barcelona, ​​this time with a destination that we really wanted to "get hold of", although it will not be until tomorrow that we can do it, since that today, for the hour that we will arrive, we have chosen sleep near Amsterdam airport, you know where we will land in a few hours, right? Amsterdam awaits us !!


It is 5.30 in the afternoon when we leave home, this time on the way to the T2 of the Prat airport, from where our flight from Barcelona to Amsterdam that we found thanks to an offer of Best Flight with which we have just decided on this 5 day getaway to Amsterdam.

Prat airport road

We arrived at 7.30 in the afternoon at T2 and a guy from Aparca i Vola is waiting for us, whom we have called 15 minutes ago and who will take care of our car directly from the terminal. This is one of the strengths of the Aparca & Go premium service We have used a few trips for a long time and that saves us so much time when leaving and picking up the car on our way to the airport.

T2 at Prat Airport, leaving our car in the hands of Aparca & Vola

We go ahead with time, so we go straight to check in, Transavia does not allow you to do it online for this flight and we have to make a good queue, since they weigh and measure the suitcases.
With Transavia, if you carry a normal hand bag, you can check it for free if the plane is very full, so we have to take things easy and wait for our turn. At the end, much later than expected, we take the opportunity to make a good snack-dinner with the improvised picnic that we bring from home and that saves us from eating the "rubber sandwich" that usually serve in most airports.
In the end, as time always flies by, with more than fair minutes, we get on the boarding gate and get in line to start boarding.

Transavia plane that will take us to Amsterdam

The flight from Barcelona to Amsterdam It takes 2 hours 15 minutes to review the planning of the places to visit in Amsterdam and half sleepy we arrive at Schiphol airport.
Here we have to make a small paragraph and we do not understand how someone can be talking 2 hours 15 minutes of a non-stop flight, we swear, they have not stopped a single second and apart without saying something coherent. Well, that has happened to us. The entire "Telerín family" has touched us to the side and they have not stopped taking out the documentation of the organized trip they were coming to, commenting on each other making increasingly absurd observations ... anyway ... we just hope that we do not coincide with them on the day of return.

More practical information to prepare your trip to Amsterdam

- 50 things to see and do in Amsterdam
- 5 best tours and excursions in Amsterdam
- 10 essential places to visit in Amsterdam
- 10 essential places to see in Holland
- 10 essential tips for traveling to Holland

As we mentioned before, the arrival time of our flight from Barcelona to Amsterdam, it was not very appropriate to move to the city more than anything because of the almost non-existence of transport, so we decided to stay at sleep near Amsterdam airport Looking at the first thing that the hotel we booked, the Radisson Inn, had a 24-hour shuttle service. This one from 6 in the morning has shuttles to the airport every 15 minutes and from 11 in the morning every 30 minutes.
But after 23.30 at night, you have to go to the meeting point, following the signs of "hotel shuttle" to the A9-A13 stop, in front of the airport exit and at the stop press the button that says "Radisson Inn ", connecting directly to the hotel reception that sends you a shuttle to the airport. This is comfort and good service.


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Remember that in order not to pay commissions and always have the current change we recommend you use the N26 card to pay and the Bnext and Revolut cards to get money at the ATMs. They are the ones we use, They are free and will save you a lot.
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So after pressing the button and making a short 10-minute trip, we arrive at our accommodation after 1 am, which will allow us sleep near Amsterdam airport and charge the batteries to start tomorrow to meet one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Amsterdam.


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Although the shuttle and everything has been rolled, we have to say that being the hotel 4 kilometers from the airport, it took us more than 1 hour to arrive since we landed. At this time of night, they reduce the departures of the Amsterdam airport to one, with the bottlenecks that this causes and the delays in the departure of the people from the same airport.
When the traffic jam occurs, you can imagine how the shuttles stop, since most people who arrive at this time, stay at sleep near Amsterdam airport
And then they say about Asia. There we would have had 100 tuk tuk surrounding us to take us to the hotel 😉

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