Cab
A taxi from the airport to the centre of town costs in the region of 20 Euros and takes around 10 minutes.

Bus
Bus number 33 leaves the airport for Rotterdam Central Station every 12 minutes, from 7am until midnight. It takes 20 minutes and costs around 2 Euros.

Office rental and secretarial services Abbey Offices, Hofplein, on 0800 222 3912.

Local press
Local paper Rotterdamse Dagblad, the regional off-shoot of national newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, is widely available for 1-2 Euros. If your Dutch is up to scratch, you can also ask your hotel for free weekly papers Maastad and Havenloods, which have local versions pertinent to North, South, West and Central Rotterdam. If your Dutch is non-existent, pick up one of the free English city guides from groovy youth-oriented tourist information centre Use-It (Conradstraat 2, tel: 240 9158, www. use-it.nl) right next to Central Station.

Tourist traps
Despite the fact the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Museumpark 18-20, tel: 441 9400, www.boijmans.rotterdam.nl) is one of the country’s best-known museums, it is large enough not to become a tourist trap. The needle-like Euromast (Parkhaven 20, tel: 436 4811, www.euromast.com), with its spectacular views of the city, is a different matter altogether, though. It’s definitely worth a visit, but get there when it opens at 10am to avoid the crowds, and once you’ve seen the views head for the Panorama restaurant – recently refurbished by Dutch design guru Jan des Bouvrie – and enjoy a spot of breakfast.

The transport nerve centre of Rotterdam can be found in and in front of Central Station, where you can catch most of the city’s trams and buses. You can plan you route online at www.ret.rotterdam.nl, but getting around is very straightforward and everyone speaks English. If you want to stick to the main sites and the city centre, everything is only a short walk away. But if you plan to be in town a while and need to navigate further, invest in a strippenkaart or strip ticket, which is valid for multiple journeys on trams and buses or a one-, two- or three-day ticket (dagkaart) which costs 6, 9 or 12 Euros. One of the two metro lines also originates at Central Station where you can get an underground map and buy tube passes.