Schiphol Shopping

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The Schiphol Plaza shops are located in an indoor shopping street between the old front of the original terminal building and the Schiphol Plaza extension hall.

Shops opening hours:
Daily: 7AM - 10PM

The following shops and bar/restaurants are present:
AH to go
Airport Telecom
AKO
America Today
Aviflora
BLOEM!
Burger King
Café Rembrandt
Capi
Coffee Bar
Coiffure en vogue
Crocs
Délifrance
Dufry Liquors of the World
Esprit
Etos
Expo
Fleurtiek
Food Village
Global Brands
Grand Cafe Plaza
H&M
Hello There
HEMA
Hot 'n Cold
Inwear / Matinique
Jill & James
Juggle Sandwich Bar
Juwelier Gassan Plaza
Kappé Perfumes and colors
Leonidas
Libris
Mexx
Nike-store
Paolo Salotto
Per Tutti!
Planes@Plaza
Pronto
Segafredo Espresso Bar
Sissy Boy Homeland
Starbucks
Suitsupply
The Body Shop
Wonder Woman

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After the famous "World of Wings" shop closed its doors at Schiphol in 2006, there still was demand for a shop with plane relates goodies. Of course, the Luchtvaart Hobby Shop at Aalsmeerderbrug still is in the neighbourhood, but not at walking distance.

Planes@Plaza replaces World of Wings for just a small part. The store is built around a DC-9 cockpit and cabin.

Opening hours
Daily: 7AM - 10PM

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At the Communication Centre in the tax-free zone you can drop your normal mail and use the phone/fax/internet services.

There also are mailboxes in the transfer area; directy after the passport check at the outer wall.

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In the tax free area (after passing passport check) you can buy any product you want. Tax Free tarive is only for destinations outside EU-countries.

What to buy: Tulips, windmills, wooden shoes, Van Gogh mugs, cheese, herring and/or ale (vacumed packed).

What to pay: Whatever Euro's you have left.

Before making the conection to my final destination, I had to buy some local souvenirs at the speed of light. In this amazing airport you will find shops of almost everything you can imagine but I suggest you to buy in See Buy Fly shop. It has a lot of stuff to choose from to take home and there's one located very near from the gates. Prices were a little high but it was very convenient for me as I'm not sure when I'll go to Holland to visit!

What to buy: Cheese, magnets, windmills, tulips.. etc!

What to pay: as much as you want, but it is expensive.

Schiphol being an industrial area, you won’t find any malls, grocery stores and such. However you can do your shopping relatively easy.

If you just need a couple of small items, Schiphol Plaza (the airport) is your best bet. The prices are a little higher than other local stores, however there is something to be said for convenience. Also the store hours there are much longer than in other places.

If you are wanting to do some more serious shopping, but not wanting to go to Amsterdam, you can easily hop the local bus to one of the near by towns. Hoofddorp is close, and offers most any type of shop you would want. There of course several other towns in the near by area.

Ah well .. as you can see we didn t come that prepared lol ..
Took us quite some time before we had gathered all our usable euro-coins ..
But then again... it was an early rise! we needed some strenghtening!

Jacob was hungry for they had only had spaghetti with cheese on the plane ... and Jacob so hates cheese!! Unbelievable huh!

Haha, so when we came passed this wall with snacks in it, Jacob naturally had to have a real Dutch croquet!

What to buy: Typical Dutch snack of course like croquet and/or fricandel!
They taste so good if you are hungry enough!
Better not think what it is made of lolol!

What to pay: Have an Euro (or several) and some 10 and 20 cents pieces at hand.