We needed to come to the Centraal Station to catch a train to visit Zaanse Schans yesterday. You…read moretap in with your credit card (or a pass if you got one for lots of public transit in a week or month). In order to enter the station. The digital directory screen was very easy to follow once we looked online to see which train we needed. There are intercity trains and sprinter trains which are slower or quicker because of the number of stops I think. We needed the 11:13 train on platform 5a to Uitgeest. We were t hungry yet but if we had been, the station has multiple places to buy pastries or snacks for travel. We only had to wait on the platform for about 15 minutes. The seats were comfortable and had options for 2 together or 4 facing each other for families. The ride was very smooth with only 2 stops before ours. You tap out at the platform of arrival at a little tap screen about waist height there.

Utilized this station to get to destinations…read more Not only is it lovely inside , filled with shops abd places to eat ... but the interior was lit fir valentine which makes it fun and pretty Very very nice!

I was in Bilthoven and at the station to meet up with a friend of my mother's whose son is a…read moreConceptual Artist, and she was going to pick me up from the station and then we were going to drive to an art gallery where his work was being shown. Bilthoven seems to be a fairly quiet village, part of the Utrecht municipality, and so it was a very small but busy railway station with only two platforms. I was there on a weekend, and the shop+cafe on the train station was closed. There were toilets, but they seemed to be locked. Entrance to the station was only thru one side, but there was a good number of turnstiles to enter/ exit. With only two platforms, it was easy to figure out which side your train was going to be coming on, so no complaints from my side on my experience using this train station! Yelp 60/ 2019

Utrecht Centraal is seriously impressive. It's huge, modern, and surprisingly easy to navigate for…read morea station of this size. The architecture alone stands out: lots of glass and steel, tons of natural light, and a very open, airy feel. Even when it's busy (which it often is), it doesn't feel cramped or chaotic. Platforms are clearly numbered and well marked, and the electronic displays make it easy to see exactly what's coming next without stress. What I really appreciate is how practical everything is. There are shops, food options, and services everywhere, from sit-down restaurants to quick takeaway spots. Even better: each platform has its own small kiosk, so you don't have to hike back to the main hall just to grab a coffee, snack, newspaper, or last-minute essentials before boarding. It's also a major international hub -- you'll see plenty of intercity and international trains heading to destinations across the Netherlands and beyond, which makes transfers pretty smooth if you're changing trains. Overall, Utrecht Centraal manages to be massive, modern, and efficient all at once -- not an easy combination. Whether you're just passing through or starting your journey here, it's one of the best-designed and most user-friendly train stations in the country.

This transportation hub is overwhelming for the first time. To exit, you have to scan your ticket…read more Make sure you exit at the right exit... just follow the majority of the people, haha. If you choose the right exit, then you are pretty much in the clear since it's close by to a huge indoor mall and a 10 minute walk to the old city. I'm pretty impressed with this train station . . . it's like a cleaner Moynihan train hall!

Getting better! The train station here has been upgraded with a brand-new wooden roof, much larger…read morethan the original. Unfortunately, they demolished a gorgeous old building, which is typical of the city of Ede. I have yet to discover if they have also installed new bathrooms, always necessary when traveling, as sometimes you take more than two or three hours to get to your destination within Holland -- even with its excellent public transportation. Fortunately these days the trains are better equipped. Selfishly I would love to see an improvement at the station level as well. Parking is easy but a good five minute walk away. And free.

It's a train station... It functions as such... It's not well packed with shops that make me spend…read moremoney on things I didn't know I really needed.. It's okay... Its not an architectural miracle, it's not funny, clean or friendly for people passing... It's not super easy to figure out were is bus/taxi/train... What does it have? - 2 snack bars - 2 coffee place thingies - 1 newsstand (that is also 1 if the coffee place thingies) - 1 taxi rank with smokey taxies (yes all of them smell) - 1 flowers/plants shop And in wintertime: - 1 Oliebollen cart (fried sweet dough stuff that the Dutch love! ...I'm Dutch! Frisk kin' love Oliebollen!)

You can buy notepads and pens at this station, because it's very airy. It's stationary…read more This is review 1996 for me on Yelp (one thousand, nine hundred and ninety six), to commemorate the year in which I first came here... when I wasn't even a teenager yet... or barely. Such a bad boy. The year before I ran away to America, I went to stay with my Uncle in Holland for a second time. These were trips of a lifetime because I was a naughty boy and Holland was a naughty place. We'd buy rail passes (my brother and I), and would spend the days wandering around Holland. We went to The Hague, to Rotterdam, and to Amsterdam several times. Also Arnhem and Utrecht. The starting point was always Veenendaal, either the Central station, or this one in the West. My Uncle lived a similar distance from both of them. He now lives in Northern VA, but back in those days, he was in Holland, and we loved visiting him there. The trains in Holland were some of the best we'd ever experienced, and still are. This station is quiet, suburban, and perfectly safe for two little kids running around Holland with no adults watching them, doing things that kids would never expect to do. I've been back to Veenendaal and to this station as an adult and it seems so tiny now. That's what she said.