Re: Advance travel info for IETF-78 Maastricht

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On 30 mrt 2010, at 10:15, Marco Davids (Prive) wrote:

> http://www.ietf78.nl/.

Ok, one thing: I strongly recommend AGAINST purchasing any _Dutch_ train tickets before you travel. (This does not apply to international train tickets!)

The Nethelands is currently making a transition from paper tickets to RFID card based payment ("OV-chipkaart", similar to the London oyster card) for all forms of public transport. Depending on how this proceeds the coming months it may be both cheaper and more convenient to get one of those RFID cards to pay for your train journey as well as the bus in Maastricht and public transport elsewhere in the Netherlands, especially Rotterdam (all forms of public transport) and Amsterdam (the metro) where paper tickets are no longer valid.

I'll prepare information about all of this as soon as I know the transition status during the IETF week. And in any event, there are no early booking / online booking discounts for Dutch train tickets, and buying online with Dutch Railways requires the iDEAL payment system that only Dutch banks use.
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