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(This review is for AMSTERDAM CENTRAL PHARMACY)
If you have frequented pharmacies in the UK, France, America, Italy, Australia, Canada, and indeed other places you will feel at home. Amsterdam Central Pharmacy is a "well-stocked medicine shop" (for cough drops, aspirin, pain relieving gel, shampoo, dandruff treatments, nail clippers, toothbrushes and more).
Many "pharmacies" is the Netherlands are just "medicine shops" or a "pharmacy lite"
What many pharmacies in the Netherlands are prescription drug dispensaries. (Be warned: like most European countries, one cannot show a foreign prescription or pill bottle to get pharmaceuticals. Customers from Africa, Asia, many countries in South America and other regions will be surprised!)
The store is well laid out and well stocked. You should be prepared to wait at times: its location ----- next to a doctor's office and in a mainline train station -----mean there are often lines. Waits shouldn't be more than 10 - 12 minutes.
My first go to? Amsterdam Central Pharmacy.
Please note that like many stores in The Netherlands and the rest of Europe at opening times are off by as much as 90 minutes. Give yourself plenty of time to be on the safe side!