Taxi Akersloot to Schiphol

From the Startingerweg or the Geesterweg you're at the A9's own exit in two minutes. That motorway runs south from here past Uitgeest and Heemskerk, dives under the North Sea Canal at Beverwijk and continues past Velsen and Haarlem.

At the Rottepolderplein your driver keeps following the A9 towards Badhoevedorp, where the A4 takes over the last kilometres to the terminal. That keeps it at 37 kilometres and, when it's quiet, a minute or 34.

The canal is the deciding factor: with works or an accident in the tunnel everything jams and the travel time shifts towards 50 minutes. There's then an alternative, because the Velsertunnel and the Wijkertunnel serve the same bank; the driver switches route as soon as one of the two is blocked.

It can also back up around Haarlem-Zuid in the morning.

The pick-up area runs from the Kerkbuurt and the Dorpsstraat to the houses along the Startingerweg, and further to the hamlets of Dorregeest and Boekel and the polder village of De Woude across the water. Addresses on the Boekelermeer business estate belong to it too.

There's no station: travellers normally first drive to Castricum, Uitgeest or Krommenie-Assendelft and board the train there. With luggage that means transferring twice, while a car at the door brings you to the departure hall in one movement.

Business pickups also available at: Bedrijventerrein Boekelermeer. Enter your business address for a direct ride from the office to departures, with an invoice on request.

Travelling to or from an event? Around Alkmaardermeer, Recreatiegebied Dorregeest you can book a door-to-door ride too, useful after the last train or bus has left.