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This file (hopefully) contains all information which you will need upon your arrival in Eindhoven to find your hotel, the workshop & spring school locations, and/or the reception. |
Train
The easiest way to find train connections to Eindhoven
is to use the travel planner of either the Dutch
railway or the German
railway - both also have english versions (NS-english,
DB-english).
Train tickets can be bought at machines at every train station in
the Netherlands and at counters at the bigger stations. The ticket
machines have Dutch, English, German, and French interfaces and
accept all cards that carry the Maestro symbol but currently no
credit cards (this is supposed to change soon). A discount on the
ticket price is only available for children or for the holders of
the Dutch reduction card ("Voordeelurenkaart"). Within
the Netherlands there are only day and weekend returns available,
so, if you are traveling from Amsterdam Schiphol or Rotterdam Central
most likely you will want to buy a single ticket to Eindhoven.
Plane
Eindhoven itself has only a small airport which
is mainly serviced by Ryan
Air. Ryan Air currently flies from Eindhoven to London Stansted
(STN), Girona Barcelona (GRO), Milan Bergamo (BGY), and Rome Ciampino
(CIA). But since there is a frequent and fast (< 30 min.) public
bus service from the airport to the train station it might nevertheless
be convenient to connect through London Stansted by using one of
the many low-cost carriers that are based there. The following web-page
www.fliegen-ist-schoener.de
provides an excellent overview of the many low-cost carriers available
- simply click on "Karte öffnen" under the red "Billig-Airlines"
heading. You certainly might want to consider Transavia,
BasiqAir, and EasyJet,
all of which operate from and to Rotterdam and/or Amsterdam, as
well as Germanwings
who fly from Köln/Bonn.
There are basically six airports that might be useful
when traveling to Eindhoven, namely Amsterdam Schiphol, Rotterdam,
Brussels, Düsseldorf, Köln/Bonn, and of course Eindhoven
itself. The table sketches the travel routes and times from these
airports:
Airport |
Minimum
travel time
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Route
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Amsterdam Schiphol |
1:30
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Train, changing once in Duivendrecht, every 30
min., travel time 1:33 |
Rotterdam |
1:30
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Bus 33 (every 10 min., travel time 0:20, see schedule)
to the train station, then direct Intercity to Eindhoven (every
30 min., travel time 1:12) |
Eindhoven |
0:30
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Bus 401 to the train station (every 15 min., travel
time 0:25, see schedule) |
Brussels |
3:30
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Train, changing at least twice, see here
for details, once an hour |
Düsseldorf |
2:15
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Train, changing twice in Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof
and Venlo, once an hour |
Köln/Bonn |
2:30
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Train, changing twice in Mönchengladbach
and Venlo, once an hour |
Some of these connections have rather tight changing times
- which is perfect if everthing goes well - but unfortunately
delays are not uncommon.
The Netherlands have a great system of nationally valid bus
tickets. Wherever you are in the country you can always pay
with "strippen" = strips. The first zone you travel
in costs you two, every additional zone one strip. These strips
are sold as "Strippenkaarts" (see picture on the
right). If you choose an airport that requires some bus travel
then a small Strippenkaart with 15 strips (currently 6.50
€) is probably the right thing for you (at Eindhoven airport they are sold at the information desk inside the airport). They also come
in handy on a day trip to Amsterdam, if you do not want to
walk all the way to the Van Gogh museum but rather want to
take a tram.
Taxis are expensive in the Netherlands. For instance, a taxi
from Eindhoven Airport to the train station, which takes about
15 minutes, will cost roughly 20 €.
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