Posted on 09/23/2015 2:28:06 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Someday I will get to Croatia, but never through Amsterdam Schiphol.
The world of logic and clear thinking with common courtesy and understanding .... no longer exists
It ain't your father's SAAB
(Something An Asshole Bought)
Not at all disputing your experience, but compared to any other major airport in Europe Schiphol has always been my favorite. Only complaint has been with an odd lack of non-stop connections to some of the other major cities. Have had to fly via Copenhagen to get to Milan. There are three very basic but clean and economical (less than $100 a night) Accor Group hotels five minutes away by free shuttle. If they were all full then lots of people must have been stranded that night.
Meh.
He would have gotten the same treatment here in the USA by TSA goons.
Don’t be a drunken A-hole in airports and life goes easier.
That’s why they call it Holeland.
Those bastards killed our elm trees!
I got into a huge row at schiphol after my flight was cancelled.
The transfer desk guy hand wrote a boarding pass and I wanted something more formal!!!!
I was near shouting at him after 10-15 minutes. Another transfer desk guy came around the desk and I thought I was about to get in a fist fight.
But he quietly said, “I know this looks like we are idiots writing out boarding passes but it will work. Trust me here.”
Defused, I went to my new gate and low and behold, it worked and the gate agents were told in advance to assure me all was OK.
Not sure what caused your issue but I didn’t see the acidity you saw!
My rule of thumb, never travel through those enemy zones unless I have the USMC on my flanks and the Navy, Army and Air Force on speed dial.
Couldn’t be worse than Atlanta-Hartsfield, everybody there has an attitude.
Interestingly enough I just got back from Croatia last week. We flew to Zagreb through Amsterdam with out issue, except for Croatia Airlines losing our luggage. I don’t really understand what happened to you- where do you live? how did you get to Amsterdam? How did you get home? And why didn’t you just book a different flight to Zagreb?
Typically causing any disturbance in an airport after drinking will lead to undesirable outcomes.
If the weather is fair..go by air but next time take the train...The Orient Express.
The islamic KLM guy, IMO, had total hate in his eyes, and he called the police.
I was never charged with anything.
I’m a life-long travel industry employee, have dealt with every kind of human idiot that you can possibly imagine in my career, and even I have a story about getting angry at Schipol...
I went through DFW and I wasn’t disruptive. It was the islamic guy at the transfer desk who had hatred in his eyes.
You keep saying you “feel” things are done to you. That says that you might have gotten belligerent because you felt put out. When feelings control actions bad things can happen. Try thinking instead.
“Killed our elm trees”
Ha! That’s funny to me because I was loading some elm logs into my firewood stack yesterday, and started wondering about Dutch Elm Disease, so I looked it up on Wikipedia. It said they think it started in Asia, but it was a load of Rock Elm logs sent from North America (didn’t say if it was USA or Canada) to Europe that killed all their trees. Some Dutch scientist discovered what it was, so they named the disease after his country, which in retrospect seems like a rude thing to do.
What did you do then? Cancel your vacation and go back to Dallas? Getting to Europe is the expensive part. Once you were there you could have found dozens of flights pretty cheap to Zagreb.
I learned long ago that when traveling by air it is best to shut up, don’t complain, answer every re-routed suitcase, delay and cancelled flight with, “Thank you sir. May I have another?”
It is best to blend in with the rest of the cattle.
And the fewer other people there, the better. Basically, private beach house (Gulf coast) or mountain cabin.
/johnny
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