This is a follow-up to a post I made some time ago, so some of the content may be famiiar.
\We are checking out of our Leiden hotel on Monday morning, and plan to spend the rest of the day here, probably until late evening. I could ask the hotel to hold our bags for a few hours, but am looking for other, longer term, alternatives.
There is bag storage at the train station here, which is convenient because we will be taking the train to Schiphol that evening to check into an airport hotel. The hotel is past security, and we cannot check in until after 8:00 p.m.
The bag storage at Leiden Centraal is past the security gates which you need a paid ticket to enter. We would then have to tap the ticket again to leave the station after leaving our bags.
Now, to my question ( or two): if I buy a train ticket to Schiphol, tap it once to enter the main part of the station, store the bags, then tap it again to exit the station, will the ticket then be considered used, one entry and one exit?
Part 2: is there another way I can get to the secure part of the train station without using a train ticket. Someone had posted earlier that some stations in the Netherlands are letting people enter by tapping a credit card, but I haven't found any more information on that.
My fallback positions are to ask our hotel to keep the bags all day, until after dinner, or just carry our bags with us.
Suggestions?
As always, thank you.