

The conversation on the plane prompted me to write this post about things to do while on a layover at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Things to do on a layover at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol I gave him some tips, suggested what to do and see and traced a walking route on the map of Amsterdam in the inflight magazine. I didn’t hesitate for a moment: “This is your chance then to visit Amsterdam”. About 40% of all arriving passengers at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol are in transit to another destination. The answer was negative, “no, just the airport many years ago”. I asked him if he’d been in Amsterdam before. “What can I do on a long layover at Amsterdam Airport?”, he countered. We were about to land at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol when he turned to me and muttered that he had a five-hour layover in Amsterdam and asked me if I was flying on to another destination as well. The man sitting next to me on the plane looked a bit flustered.
