entrance into holland

[bertdobben]

I am flying into Amsterdam from Canada to catch another plane to my final destanationof Hungary can I leave the Airport in Amsterdam and see the sights in the 5 hour time between flights?

[colinrobert]

You should not have a problem unless you are travelling on an obscure third world passport ,then there may be restrictions.

[Gef]

I wouldn't risk it. Assuming your plane is on time from Canada and you get through imigration fairly quickly then by the time you get the train into Amsterdam you will be lucky to have 4 hours left. Then you should really be back at least two hours before your flight as it can be very busy at check-in so at most I think you would have an hour in the city.

Why not just relax in the airport and do a bit of shopping etc?

[KARL]

I can well understand why you would want to leave the airport - any airport, Schipol included - these are some of the most boring places on the planet to be stuck at. Unless eating, drinking, gambling or shopping (most often actually at above loval high street prices) are something you regard as attractions then an airport is not somewhere you want to be. Unfortunately you will not see much in the short time available to you. There are two options worth looking at. The first is to ask the information staff how to get to the nearest park, just to get into more attractive surroundings between flights. The other may no longer be there (after being a regular KLM user I dumped them following particularly bad treatment and subsequent official lies in denial of the facts of it). There used to be a gallery in the airport with Rembrandt etc. on exhibit - sadly, I never had long enough between flights to go in but had promised myself to do so someday.........