Stayokay Vondelpark

Stayokay Vondelpark Lobby

Stayokay Vondelpark Room

Hello travelers!
Friday, May 20th
 Just a reminder that Crazy Legs Europe is a blog about the travels of Loren and Dina in Holland, Belgium, Ireland, and England in May and June of 2011. Dina is a handicapped person with limited use of her legs. She uses an electric scooter full time.

Loren:   Ah, Amsterdam!

We arrived at 8:40 local time. The train station is connected to the airport so it is a short stroll to the train to our hotel. We went to the help desk to find out how to use the train(I.e. getting Dina and her scooter aboard). The person at the desk was very friendly, but told us it would be a two hour wait to get the ramp in place for the next train.

While we were waiting, we tried to get Euro from a local ATM. Neither one of our ATM cards would work in the machine! Fortunately, we had some cash to trade at the money exchange. Our ATM cards worked well for most of the trip. More on that later.

We made train trip to Lelylaan Station and then took the tram to the north-east end of Vondelpark where we had a room waiting at the Stayokay Hostel Vondelpark.

The room was a simple private affair with two bunk-beds. It had an accessible bathroom with roll-in shower. We could have sub-let the 2 top bunks for 20 Euro each, but decided to opt for privacy instead!