We believe that the world today calls for people who are prepared to give. People who understand the art of making others feel welcome. People who have both leadership as well as service talents. We call this Hostmanship. This is a concept that we have adopted and honed. Hostmanship is at the heart of our programme and goes beyond hospitality. It’s a mentality; a drive to combine the desire to serve, genuine attention and leadership into an inspirational outcome.

Studying at Hotel Management School NHL Stenden is learning at one of the most progressive and innovative Hotel Management Schools. An international Hotel Management School that continually challenges both herself and her students to gain knowledge, develop talents and learn to be agile in a fast-paced and rapidly changing world. A Dutch founded Hotel Management School that thinks globally and has campus sites across continents.
Hotel Management School NHL Stenden offers her students the chance to study across borders.

Motivation, talent and attitude are the most important criteria for selecting our students. It is about you, not your background or origin. We prepare our students to work on multi-level environment by giving them a rich and diverse toolkit with both hard and soft skills. At Hotel Management School NHL Stenden a student sees the value of his fellow man as the core of his being. A hostmanship talent who makes the difference by always keeping the big picture in mind and is able to make and justify high level decisions.

Arrival at Schiphol

When you have arrived in the arrival hall of Schiphol, please follow the signs ‘trains’ (or ‘treinen’ in Dutch), to go to the plaza on Schiphol.

Buying train tickets at Schiphol

The train journey will be done with an NS train (NS = ‘Nederlandse Spoorwegen’, the Dutch train company). The train ticket will cost around €25 for a single trip.

To by your train ticket, you have two options:

1. Use the ‘OV Service & Tickets’ at Schiphol Plaza. Here, one of the employees will help you with buying a ticket to Leeuwarden Central Station. Please do not forget to check in with your ticket at the NS check-in poles. Checking out only needs to be done in Leeuwarden Central Station. If you are using the non-direct train, you do not need to check out in the transfer station Zwolle. Checking out in Leeuwarden is sufficient. The NS employee can explain more about this.

2. Use one of the ticket machines at the Plaza.
a. Select English or any other language.
b. Here you can order your ticket by using the ‘buy a separate ticket (single-use chipkaart)’. Payment can be done by credit card (+ €0,50 transaction costs) or cash money (coins only).
c. Please do not forget to check in with your ticket at the NS check-in poles. Checking out only needs to be done in Leeuwarden Central Station. If you are using the non-direct train, you do not need to check out in the transfer station. Checking out in Leeuwarden is sufficient.

You can find the correct train platform (usually platform 1-2) by checking the signs in front of the platform tunnels at the Plaza.

Train to Leeuwarden

The train to Leeuwarden will depart each 30 minutes, starting from 06h04 until 22h34.
– Trains at .04: non-direct trains
– Trains at .34: direct trains

The journey by train will take about two hours. You can either chose between a direct or non-direct (1 stop in Zwolle) train.

At Schiphol Airport, the train will usually depart from platform 1-2. If you take the non-direct train, you will transfer trains in Zwolle. The next train to Leeuwarden will arrive around five minutes later on the other side of the train platform.

However, we will advise you to take the direct train to Leeuwarden, which will leave .34 from Schiphol Airport. Also we recommend you to download the ‘NS Reisplanner Xtra’ app. Here you always have the up to date travel information. You can change the language from Dutch to English, by doing to following:
– Select ‘Meer’
– Select ‘Instellingen’
– Select ‘Taal’ and select English

For the correct bus information please go to

9292ov.nl

and select English in the right upper corner.

It is also possible to book a taxi.

Taxi Jelle

06 4555 4555

Taxi E-tax

058 202 3040

Taxi Leeuwarden

06 8533 0115