Maastricht

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Maastricht is a city in the Dutch province of Limburg. Maastricht is close to Belgium and Germany. It is the most southern city of the Netherlands because of its geography.

	maastricht Travel Guide : 1 Understand 1.1 Information 2 Talk 3 Get in 3.1 By air 3.1.1 Airports 3.2 By train 3.2.1 Train stations 3.3 Train information 3.4 By car 3.5 By bus 4 Get around 4.1 By car 4.2 By bus 5 See 5.1 Civic Buildings 5.2 Museums 5.3 Tourist Attractions 6 Do 6.1 Cinemas 6.2 Culture 7 Eat 8 Drink 9 Sleep 10 Get out 11 External links

Understand

The town is a good mix between students (mostly medical and business) and locals, who keep the town alive and fresh.

Information

The VVV is the local tourist agency, and in fact, the tourist agency throughout the entire country. If ever you're lost in the Netherlands, just look for a VVV. They'll help straighten you out, and sell you a map too!

For information about all (cultural) events in Maastricht, try to find a copy of the 'Week in Week uit'. They are distributed all around the city.

Talk

Maybe even more than in other parts of the Netherlands, people know how to speak foreign languages. So don't worry if you don't speak Dutch, many Maastricans are happy to converse with you in English, German or even French.

Get in

By air

There is an airport near Maastricht, the Maastricht Aachen Airport, which you can reach by the local bus system, or by taxi. Flights to Maastricht are more expensive, but more convenient than flying into another city, such as Amsterdam, and travelling to Maastricht by train.

Airports

• Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, http://www.schiphol.nl/
• Eindhoven Airport, http://www.eindhovenairport.nl/
• Liege Bierset, http://www.liegeairport.com/
• Maastricht Aachen Airport, http://www.maa.nl/
  • Daily direct services to Amsterdam, Berlin and Bucharest.
• Rotterdam Airport, http://www.rotterdam-airport.nl/
• Brussels, Belgium Airport, http://www.brusselsairport.be/

By train

There is an extensive rail system in the Netherlands. Although Maastricht is not considered an international rail station, the international stations in Liege, Belgium, and Aachen, Germany both have routes to this city. In addition, the international airport in Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, has a train station located in the bottom level with which you can reach Maastricht with just one transfer.

Train stations

• Maastricht
• Maastricht Randwyck

Maastricht serves direct trains to Haarlem, Heerlen, Roermond and Liège.

Train information

• Belgium Railways, http://www.b-rail.be/main/E/index.php
• Die Bahn (Aachen, Germany), http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en
• Nederlandse Spoorwegen , http://www.ns.nl/
• French Railways, http://www.voyages-sncf.com/

By car

By bus

• Bus 420 from Aachen serves Maastricht on an hourly basis.
• Belgian busses come and go to Hasselt, Tongeren, Lanaken and Liege.
• Eurolines Netherlands has a busstop at the Central trainstation in Maastricht. In Liege is the belgian Eurolines stop, which serves different routes as the Maastricht' stop.

See wikimaas (http://wikimaas.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Bus) for more info.

Get around

By car

By bus

The city has a bussing system called the Stadsbus (Literally: "City Bus"), that travels over most of the city and to surrounding areas. You can buy a fare on the bus for the trip, or buy it in advance on a pass called a Strippenkaart "Strip-card".

You can purchase the Strippenkaart at the Train Station, any Post Office or Magazine Shop. There are two denominations, ?6,40 and ?19,20. The lesser of the two has 15 strips on it, and the larger 45. So, each strip costs about ?0,42, and each trip on the bus takes at least 2 strips. So a ride on the bus might cost about ?1. Depending on where you go, the fare increases. This is much cheaper then buying the fare on the bus, as a trip purchased from the driver might cost between ?1,60 and ?2,20.

See

Civic Buildings

• City Library, http://www.centreceramique.nl, Plein 1992
• University Maastricht Library, http://www.ub.unimaas.nl (http://www.unimaas.nl/default.asp?template=portal.htm&id=BR3ME17V0PW523A24OV2&taal=en) (access only for students and employees), Grote Looierstraat 17 (centre) & Universiteitssingel 50 (Randwyck)

Museums

• Bonnefanten Museum, http://www.bonnefanten.nl/
• Spaans Gouvernement, http://www.museumspaansgouvernement.nl/
• Natuurhistorisch Museum, http://www.nhmmaastricht.nl/
  • Complete with the Maastricht Dinosaur and everything!

Tourist Attractions

• The Caves, http://www.vvvmaastricht.nl/Dagjeuit/?lang=en
  • A local Marlestone mine, tours given in Dutch
• Coffeeshops (eg. Mississippi on the Wilhelminakade, at the Maas quai)
• 'Regular' shopping centre, known for its excuisity.

Do

Cinemas

• Lumiere Cinema, http://www.lumiere.nl/
• Minerva Cinemas, http://www.minervagroep.nl/minerva-maastricht/index.html

Culture

• Visit the Uitbalie (http://www.uitbaliemaastricht.nl) in the Theater on the Vrijthof for (last minute) tickets to almost any cultural event.

Eat

• Sour Meat (Zoervleis)

Drink

Maastricht has many bars, restaurants, pubs and dance clubs, located on Vrijthof and Market Squares, and in the center of downtown it's nearly impossible to walk around and not see anything to do.

• Maastricht is great for a night out (Maastricht is home to both a University & Institute). therefore, lots of students, also lots of foreign companies are based here so a mixture of international pubs & clubs can be found here.

• Maastricht is known for its yearly "Carnival," a tradition celebrated in many towns in the south of the Netherlands.

Sleep

• There is an active community of Hospitality Club members in Maastricht.
• Untill medio 2007 there is no youth hostel in Maastricht. After that, there will be a Stayokay-Hostel in the Maaspavillion, Maasboulevard 101.

Get out

• World War II Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial1 (http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/ne.php): Take the N278 9.5 kilometers (6 miles) east of Maastricht. The cemetery is located just west of the village of Margraten. Open daily except for December 25 and January 1; 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The cemetery is the final resting place for 8,301 American military dead. A monument is inscribed with the names of 1,723 Americans whose remains were never found or identified. The site contains a chapel and museum with three engraved operations maps describing the European Campaign. Free.

External links

• http://www.maastrichtnet.nl - For all cultural events
• http://www.maastricht.nl
• http://www.vvvmaastricht.nl/ - The local tourist agency, the VVV
• http://www.wikimaas.org - Maastricht Independent City Guide - This is an elaborative wiki with all the information you won't find at the regular tourist information sites and guides.

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