How to NL

Long-distance buses

Here are some long-distance bus services:

• Eurolines. (See OV in Nederland's list of lines that run in the Netherlands and Belgium. The list could be out of date.)
• FlixBus (also 'MeinFernbus'). (See OV in Nederland's list of lines that run in the Netherlands and Belgium. The list could be out of date.)
• Deutsche Bahn IC Bus.
  • Amsterdam Sloterdijk – Groningen – Leer – Oldenburg – Bremen – Hamburg (Arriva Touring)
  • Amsterdam Sloterdijk – Utrecht Centraal – Hanover – Hamburg (no domestic travel in NL) (Arriva Touring)
  • Lille Europe – Gent Dampoort – Antwerpen Centraal – Eindhoven – Düsseldorf Hbf
  • Antwerpen Centraal – Eindhoven – Roermond Stadskantor/Outlet – Düsseldorf Hbf
  • London Victoria – Antwerpen Centraal – Eindhoven – Düsseldorf Hbf (– Essen Hbf) (no domestic travel in DE)
  • (Liège Guillemins –) Maastricht – Düsseldorf Hbf
• Ouibus (network map; buses to/from Belgium/France/London).
• RegioJet ('Student Agency'); Amsterdam – Utrecht – Rotterdam – Breda – Eindhoven – Venlo – Düsseldorf – Köln/Bonn Flughafen – Bonn – Frankfurt (Main) – Würzburg – Würzburg – Nürnberg – Plzeň – Praha
• Ecolines; Rotterdam – Den Haag – Amsterdam – Utrecht – Arnhem – Apeldoorn – Zwolle – Groningen – Oldenburg – Bremen – Hamburg – Berlin ZOB – Warzawa Zachonia – Ostrów Mazowiecka – Białystok – Augustów – Suwałki – Marijampolė – Šiauliai – Jelgava – Rīga

And here are two exclusively domestic services; both require passengers to have an air-ticket of some sort:

• Air Express Bus: Eindhoven Airport ✈ – Den Bosch Petterlaarpark – Utrecht P+R Westraven – Amsterdam Centraal. Printed timetables.
• For KLM customers with a flight to/from Amsterdam Schiphol ✈: free bus (pre-booking required) Nijmegen – Arnhem Centraal – [Rhenen or Veenendaal-De Klomp] – Schiphol Airport ✈, and Maastricht – Maastricht Airport ✈ – Eindhoven Airport ✈ – Schiphol Airport ✈.