Station Amsterdam Sloterdijk

Not a great station for anyone with limited mobility or lots of luggage. Trains are in multiple levels, above and below the station hall, and there’s only one escalator and a tiny elevator to and from each platform. To add to the confusion, there’s two more platforms outside the station and down the street, so if you can’t find your platform it’s probably one of those.
Decent amenities in terms of shops, and they’ve just completely renovated the square in front of the station and it now boasts actual plants (instead of the concrete parking lot it was before) as well as more bike parking.

Unlike some of the other reviewers here, I found Amsterdam Sloterdijk easy to navigate and not at all confusing. This is a major railway junction west of Amsterdam Centraal station. Plenty of cheap eating options to grab. Feels safe and secure.

What to say about a train station… mmmmm
Sloterdijk is the train hub in the west, from here you can hop into the main lines going to all the different parts of the country.
In comparison to the other main stations in the city, Sloterdijk might come up as a bit more chaotic and difficult to read but if you have been here more than once it is pretty easy to figure out.
Additionally, they have been doing some work on in the surrounding areas to bring some more life to this part of town. All
In all, this station does its job.

Hier gibt’s super Parkplätze für euren Citytrip nach Amsterdam. Das einzige was an der ganzen Sache immer etwas kompliziert ist, ist das ein und auschecken mit den Fahrkarten. Hier parkt man aber nichtsdestotrotz sehr günstig und ist auch sehr schnell mit der Bahn am Amsterdam Centraal

I’m with most others on this station. It’s big, but more in a sprawled out kind of way and I don’t really feel like it makes a lot of sense. It’s also off a main road so I go a tiny bit lost trying to get there on bike (but honestly, that’s probably just me). There is a good amount of bike parking and I even found a spot at 10am on a weekday which I was not expecting.
Inside is simply confusing. Finding the tracks 7 & 8 for the Intercity took way too much work! There’s a stairway and escalator inside but in a pushed back area (which I didn’t know about until I came back on the train), but you can get to it outside as well, and I think there’s a 7 & 8 Metro platform that you scan to go through and you go up instead of down for the 7 & 8 for the Sprinters/​Intercity trains. The OV-​chip card scanners aren’t as obvious as I think they should be either. I went down, and had to come back up to find a scanner.
But you have your main amenities that you find in most train stations here: Starbucks (
), magazine shop, Julia’s (great quick but good food! Review for the one in Amstel Station:
), a snackbar, ETOS, and an Albert Heijn to-​go.
My advice is to get there early if you are unfamiliar with this station!

Only used this station once to visit one of the government buildings in the surrounding area. When we got here, it is simple enough to exit. Upon exiting, I noticed, automated kiosk. Walk out and you’re at a wide open space outside the station with nothing much around except a nice view of the towering buildings and structures. Nothing retail can be fount close by. We didn’t have time to explore the rest of the station for retail amenities.
Returning back to the station itself seems to encompass a bit of walking and stairs not noticed before. It’s big but not grand. I’m not too sure, as a passer by commuter and not a local, which one to take. We’re not exactly strolling around or site seeing, we have a schedule to meet. It is a bit confusing between the difference to choose the Tram or Metro (is the Metro also the Train?) or is the Bus back to Centraal Station a better option. The upper platform will have all three signage. We knew of the busses all labelled outside/​exiting the platform but those didn’t have Centraal Station as a destination for a route. So we went up to the platform and finally asked the lady at the information desk and she was helpful enough to tell us our choices. All we did was follow the direction of the lady in the booth and we were on our way. But in terms of signage and a screen to show where to go and labelling, not so great.
Being nice, if you’re lucky enough as you run around there is a stand exiting the station that sells Krentenbollen and that was part of our experience, to make the search more pleasant because there are limited apparent retail shops or restaurants at the entrance without further looking around.

This is a pretty complicated station I have to say. You really need to check where specific platforms are. as it is not that straight forward. If your time to change the trains is very short you might not even make your connection as there are 2 platforms 5 minute walking distance from the main hub. There are not too many OV chipcard check out points and it makes it a hassle sometimes.

I am not too crazy about this station but it functions on a decent level. I find the station to be a bit confusing, because they split the station into two, not sure why they did that but I guess there is some logic behind the reason. I like that they have a Starbucks in the station but other then that it works for me.

Super Anbindung an den Hauptbahnhof von Amsterdam: alle 3 – 6 Minuten fährt ein Zug dorthin. Sauber.

I’m not a big fan of this station. This is a very complex station to navigate because it has train tracks upstairs and downstairs, also a separate structure containing train tracks, metro, bus, and tram. The part that is really bad about this place is the signage to get you from one place to another is very hard to find (especially when the station is crowded and you are in a hurry) or sometime no existent. There is really no central place to look for information on where to go, you basically have to know which exit to take (there are many) in order to find your transfer. For example if you need to go to track 9 or 10 that is in a different building, but you won’t see a sign saying that unless you are looking at the exact door you are supposed to exit from. To further confuse you, tracks number under 9 are in the main building as well as tracks numbered above 10.

Loooong walk to the cabstand. And on sunday afternoon there is a big chance that you don’t find a taxi. But the local transport connection is really good.

In diesem Starbucks vermisst man vergebens die Toiletten, aber sonst ist es dort sehr schön, wir haben nur um dahinein zu schauen ein Zwischenstopp gemacht

Yesyesyes! Eindelijk goede koffie dichtbij mijn werkplek!
Naast het feit dat ik deze heerlijke koffie als technisch leverancier in de store in de fabriek zelf in Amsterdam mag drinken.
Ik ben er superblij mee!