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I agree that the price noted for the Amsterdam to Leipzig ticket seems high.
Personally, I would recommend taking a train. I have done some traveling by train from Brussels to Amsterdam and Amsterdam to Cologne. I found the trains clean, timely and very comfortable.
I have also been on a few buses in Germany and found them clean and comfortable as well. However, the buses do tend to make a lot of stops and are affected by traffic.
I do hope you like Amsterdam. I was just there in October (my 4th time) and had a great time.
I agree that the price noted for the Amsterdam to Leipzig ticket seems high.
Personally, I would recommend taking a train. I have done some traveling by train from Brussels to Amsterdam and Amsterdam to Cologne. I found the trains clean, timely and very comfortable.
I have also been on a few buses in Germany and found them clean and comfortable as well. However, the buses do tend to make a lot of stops and are affected by traffic.
I do hope you like Amsterdam. I was just there in October (my 4th time) and had a great time.
Getting the links from others on the board seems to help a lot finding a more reasonable price for a train. It's all in the planning stages right now except for the tickets we purchased for a concert at the Concertgebouw. Going to the Concertgebouw is like going to Mecca for me as a classical musician. I'm so excited I can hardly wait!! And everything I've read and seen about Amsterdam is very appealing.
I genuinely believe that the busses are as comfortable as the trains. All the trains (2nd class) I've been on in Europe have actually kind have been a disappointment from what I've envisioned. That's including using the ICE in Germany once. Most daytime intercity cars are set up barely any more comfortably than a typical modern metro car. I guess if you had a sleeper or something, it would be a different story.
I think you're from Canada, arcticgardener, and these are no Greyhound. This is what the typical interior of a bus would look like, such as Meinfernbus or Flixbus:
Yep! They actually stick them below seat level so you access them through the stairs going out the door in the centre of the bus. They are a bit more spacious and full-featured than the busses designed to to have them in the back.
Perhaps you can stay for 2 days in Berlin and visit the local museums? And then proceed to Leipzig.
To book a train from Amsterdam to Berlin is not a problem, I guess. The price might be 50 euro for a person. You leave Amsterdam at 1 p.m. and arrive in Berlin at 7 p.m.
Another interesting option:
Amsterdam - Prague. There is a night train between them.
From Prague it's very easy to visit Dresden.
And Berlin, which I mentioned above, is a very interesting city too.
So, if you won't find a good way to go from Amsterdam to Leipzig, you can chose:
Amsterdam - Berlin (a daily train)
Amsterdam - Prague (a night train)
Last edited by Muscovite; 09-03-2014 at 02:33 AM..
Perhaps you can stay for 2 days in Berlin and visit the local museums? And then proceed to Leipzig.
To book a train from Amsterdam to Berlin is not a problem, I guess. The price might be 50 euro for a person. You leave Amsterdam at 1 p.m. and arrive in Berlin at 7 p.m.
Another interesting option:
Amsterdam - Prague. There is a night train between them.
From Prague it's very easy to visit Dresden.
And Berlin, which I mentioned above, is a very interesting city too.
So, if you won't find a good way to go from Amsterdam to Leipzig, you can chose:
Amsterdam - Berlin (a daily train)
Amsterdam - Prague (a night train)
Thanks for that idea! We'll consider it! We are wanting to spend some time in Berlin as well.
inahandbasket
I'm glad that I said something useful! By the way, if you go to Berlin, alongside with a well-known Museum Island, there are:
1) An exhibition complex near the Philharmonie, which includes a good gallery of the old masters (Italian High Renaissance is not so well presented, but the collections of German and Dutch art and of the Early Italian Renaissance are very good) and an excellent Arts and Crafts museum.
2) In Dahlem - Ethnological Museum. Very good collection and only a few visitors.
inahandbasket
I'm glad that I said something useful! By the way, if you go to Berlin, alongside with a well-known Museum Island, there are:
1) An exhibition complex near the Philharmonie, which includes a good gallery of the old masters (Italian High Renaissance is not so well presented, but the collections of German and Dutch art and of the Early Italian Renaissance are very good) and an excellent Arts and Crafts museum.
2) In Dahlem - Ethnological Museum. Very good collection and only a few visitors.
Thank you for the tips! My spouse is very interested to experience the visual art available in Berlin. I know we'll only see a very small portion but this is only the first trip abroad for both of us. Now that our kids are near to finishing up college and about to be launched into their careers we'll be able to travel more.
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