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1994. Old Noordam in Alaska

Hilton hotel at the airport. We walked to the hotel with our luggage. Once we learned how to get there, it was an easy five-minute stroll without traffic.

We ended our cruise in Amsterdam two months ago and stayed the night in a hotel near the airport. Of course, we had to take the time for another Covid test (the rules have changed since then) and we spent time with an old friend who lives there. Nonetheless, we needed three hours the next morning to go through the airport terminal to reach our gate. If we had not been premium flight members, it would have been at least four hours. Schipol is a total mess, just as many people have said, for a variety of reasons. We would never have made a morning flight the same day as disembarkation. Another lesson learned - I highly recommend taking the HAL transfer bus to the airport like we did. The taxi line was ridiculously long at the cruise terminal (maybe 150 poor souls waiting in line). We heard from one passenger later that their driver got lost going to the airport, yet charged 70 euros to flounder around the city streets.