Maastricht Transportation

When you visit Holland, you most probably will land at Schiphol Airport. The fastest way to travel down is to arrange a flight to Maastricht Aachen Airport. Unfortunately KLM recently stopped with their regular flights to Maastricht.

It is even possible to arrange tourflights, to have a beautiful view over Maastricht and it's surroundings.

Maastricht also offers and airport on the outskirts of the city. Direct flight operate here from Amsterdam and Berlin. The airport serves mainly as gateway for holiday makers to various destinations in Southern Europe and Turkey.

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The Maastricht Stadstram is a tourist sightseeing tram along the historical sites of the city.

Explanation during the 40 minutes ride either is in Dutch/German, Dutch/English, Dutch/French or a foreign language combination on request.

There are two trams in service.
Groups have priority.

Departure times:
Tu-Su: 13:00 – 14:00 – 15:00 – 16:00* (* only with enough passengers)

Ticket: Euro 5.00

By plane: Maastricht-Aachen Airport is located only a couple of kilometres outside of Maastricht

By train: Maastricht has a train terminal. Trains go there from places all over the Netherlands and also Liege in Belgium

By car: Maastricht is located close to both Germany and Belgium.

Limburg is the name of the province of which Maastricht is the capital. In the south of Limburg (bordering on Belgium and Germany), there are genuinely old steam trains still running a schedule. Participation consists of actually helping run the train to romantic dinner or afternoon tea.

Check the South Limburg Steam Engine Company
The website is in Dutch but if you're really interested, then please ask me to translate the bits you need.

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Even though the Province of Limburg is out on a limb, as it were, Maastrich is still very easy to get to by train from anywhere else within the Netherlands. There are a couple of intercity trains per hour to and from the main railway junction at Utrecht, from where the whole Dutch railway system is accessible. These trains also stop at 's Hertogenbosch and connect with the cross country line from Arnhem heading east to Vlissingen.

There are also two direct trains per day to Schiphol airport and an hourly international service to Brussels (direct on weekdays, via Liege at weekends).

In addition to the intercity services there are local stoptreinen to Roermond and Heerlen.

The station is located pretty much in the city centre on Spoorweglaan, about 5 minutes walk east of the St Servaas bridge.

This a quite a large station and has all the facilities you would expect including cafes, snack and convenience shops, ATM, cycle hire and left-luggage facilities.

For travel further afield the main bus station is immediately adjacent with local services and into Aachen in Germany from where you can join the German rail network.

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For trips out and about from Maastricht, for instance to the mountain of Vaalsberg, the local South Limburg Veolia transport company offers a day ticket for seven Euros (July 2010). This is valid on most of their bus and train services from 9 am on the day that it is purchased.

These can be bought from the bus driver or from the Veolia office at the train station, but not from the automatic ticket machines.

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Whilst Maastricht is emminently walkable, and to my mind best that way, there seems to be a couple of eco-friendly options for those who can't manage all those cobblestones. I noticed one which I think was called "Solar Sightseeing" and glimpsed another which was a sort of electric train/tram.

Sorry I haven't managed to find contact details for either but your hotel or the local tourist office should be able to provide details.