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If you survive in the Netherlands on Public Transport, then this is your one stop guide for Public Transport Information.

9292ov.nl

The one website that will tell you what connections to take when going from place A to place B. You can specify the source and destination in many ways; address, train station, museum, theater, shopping center etc. You tell it the date and time. The time could be time of departure (from the source) or arrival (at your destination). Once the info is given, click geef reisadvies (Give Route Advice).

If the info matches its database, it will give the fastest connections. Else it suggests corrections (for typos). Public Transport options include walk, bus, tram, train and ferry. Using the proper options, it can tell you all the stops on your route. It also tells you how much the fare will be (in strippens and train/ferry tickets).

The only issue is that the website is all in Dutch. Unless you get familiar with it (and you soon will!), use Google Translate by copy-pasting the text on each page (page by page) and making sense of the text on the website.

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