Hello,
We are looking forward to our trip to the Netherlands this month. We will be visiting several cities and traveling with our kids, ages 11 and 13. The tap-on-tap-off with credit cards seems to be a great option for transportation, but the problem is that our kids don’t have their own credit cards :) (we also don’t have Apple Pay set up on phones, though maybe we need to look into it…)
We were planning to get the kids OV chipkaarts. I’m hoping other families can chime in on what they used. Are the OV cards a good solution? Maybe there’s another option we haven’t thought of? Is it relatively easy to check the balance and reload? I read somewhere that the kiosks for purchasing and reloading were slowly being removed as more people just tap to pay with credit cards.
(When I searched the forum, many OV Chipkaart questions were several years old, forgive me if this has been asked recently and I missed it.)