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I am going to Amsterdam for 10 days. I plan to stay at Haarlem and travel to Amsterdam Central daily. Also I have planed day trips to Rotterdam and The Hague. Is there any travel pass that will take care of the above travel arrangements? Also I will be using public transportation within Amsterdam.

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2024 update:

You can now use most contactless payment cards (issued by Visa and Mastercard) and methods instead of the OV chipcard. This works in all places that card works. Here's the official website for this scheme.

On the OV card you need a minimum of €4.50 for bus and metro and €20 for trains whatever the cost of the travel, on your bank card or credit card this is handled by a temporary hold and the hold removed when you check out at the end of the journey.

If you can buy tickets in the NS app or have an account on their website you can buy tickets in advance for specific parts of the day, like from 6:00 tot 12:00 for a 2 hour journey. These come with good reductions, up to 60% off the ads say, I have had them to 40% off. These are digital tickets and require either printing or downloading into the app. And in advance can be as short notice as for the next day.

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You should consider buying an OV-chipkaart. With this, you can board any train, metro, or bus in almost the entire country and pay per kilometer of travel. It costs €7.50, however every time you have to buy a paper ticket for the NS train you pay €1 extra. Since you'll be buying around 20 paper tickets (Haarlem to Amsterdam/Rotterdam/The Hague and back for 10 days), it should save you a few bucks. Plus, if you come back in the next 5 years, you can use it again!

If you're planning on use the metro inside Amsterdam extensively, you can also consider getting a 1 to 7 day unlimited pass. This can be loaded onto an OV-chipkaart or used as a paper ticket. It only works on buses and trams inside Amsterdam though, so you'll still have to get an NS paper ticket or use the stored value on your OV-chipkaart to get into Amsterdam from Haarlem.

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