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Mike LakeIntercity
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OV card and traveling to Hague and Rotterdam

Oh well! hehe  So much for that plan!  They just closed the Haarlem christmas market!  Now we dont need to go. hehe.  We will just take the train right to The Hague for the Royal Christmas Market instead!  problem solved! hehe 

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Mike LakeIntercity
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OV card and traveling to Hague and Rotterdam

Yes indeed, I see the same thing.  Its a 22 minute walk from the bus terminal to the hotel and we take bus 2 and get out at Stuyvesantplein and walk 10 minutes so may be just as well to walk the whole thing or just take an uber out of the bus station!  Thanks everyone.  Kind of fun figuring all this out.  Can’t wait to get there for that fantastic christmas market!  It will be our 3rd year there in the last 4 years but every time we always stayed in Ams. ML

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Mike LakeIntercity
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Covid and kids question.

Robert, that app sounds great but I just clicked on it and it says you have to have a Digid to sign up and it seems you have to have a BSN number to apply so sounds like its only for locals. ML

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Mike LakeIntercity
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Covid and kids question.

Thanks everyone!  The NL website was so confusing I called the DC Dutch Consulate in the US!  The lady was so nice and honestly she could not find it either.  She had to call someone and ask as she could not find the right area either.  Turns out if you are under 18 traveling with fully vaxed parents you dont need a vax.  If you are older than 12, you have to have a negative rapid or PCR test before you go.  If you are under 12 you dont need anything.  She even pointed out where it was exactly hidden on the NL site so I have a print out of it now but as you all say, things that are in play now may not be in play tomorrow! hehe  Thanks all! 

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Mike LakeIntercity
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Covid and kids question.

On the government of NL website it says if you come from a low risk country you are ok, if you come from a very high risk country then you do this.  It shows each country that is low risk and each country that is high risk but the US is not on either of them and there is no list showing the high risk countries. It is hilarious!  I have spent an hour or two clicking through the site and it does not say.  Just would like to see it written on a government site and not some tourist website to know for sure.ML 

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Mike LakeIntercity
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OV card and traveling to Hague and Rotterdam

Oh thats all way too much work! hehe  We will just buy the bus ticket from the airport to Haarlem, buy a second ticket to go the couple of stops from the main bus stop in Haarlem to the hotel and buy another ticket to take us back into town and one last one to go back to the hotel in the evening! hehe  That will be 4 bus tickets that day so I was just wondering if the pass would make a difference as opposed to buying all the tickets over and over but all this stuff is giving me a headache! hehe Thanks all! Mike

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Mike LakeIntercity
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OV card and traveling to Hague and Rotterdam

Then to get from Haarlem to the hotel in The Hague it seems you need to take 2 trains, is that also one ticket or two?  Thanks everyone!   Haarlem37m by train every 30 minutesIntercitySprinterUS$11 - US$26Den Haag HSChange / TransferDen Haag, Station Hollands Spoor12m by tram every 15 minutes1US$5Den Haag, Adriaan Goekooplaan

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Mike LakeIntercity
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OV card and traveling to Hague and Rotterdam

I think the options are train to Haarlem, bus 2 to get to the hotel or bus 300 to Haarlem and bus 2 to get to the hotel.  I assume you just get out at the bus station and buy another ticket for the 2 bus, the ticket for the 300 is not the same one is it? 

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Mike LakeIntercity
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OV card and traveling to Hague and Rotterdam

Thanks Eberkhout!  Sounds like just buying the tickets is the way to go!  I looked at Uber and it turns out it is 50-60 Euros just to go from the airport to Haarlem so I am sure the bus or train for the 4 of us is probably about the same price.   

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Mike LakeIntercity
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OV card and traveling to Hague and Rotterdam

If I was to buy the single day pass out of the airport, I could use that to take bus 300 to Haarlem and then use it again to go from our hotel to the Christmas market and back again to the hotel all on the one ticket for the day right and even back again the next morning to the train station to get on the train to The Hague.  (Which would be a separate ticket) that is as opposed to buying 1 ticket to get to Haarlem, one ticket to get to the hotel, one ticket back to the christmas market and one ticket to go back to the hotel once it was over is that right?  

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Mike LakeIntercity
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OV card and traveling to Hague and Rotterdam

Holy crap you all certainly know a lot about all things Netherlands! hehe  WOO HOO!  Cant wait. 

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Mike LakeIntercity
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OV card and traveling to Hague and Rotterdam

Thanks so much for that and kudos on the Thanksgiving!  Color me extremely impressed.  hehe  That was basically what I was wondering.  Does that tourist unlimited pass thing work to dH and Rtm so the answer is no there.  How about on the first day?  We had planned to get an uber from the airport to Haarlem and just bus it to the city center for the Christmas market.  If we got an unlimited ticket can we use that to get to the airport to Haarlem and in and around Haarlem or is Haarlem outside the limit of that card?  Not a big deal either way!  I have the NS app on my phone from the last time!  Thanks for all the advice.  We will be coming mid December.  

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