If you regularly travel through Schiphol, you quickly work out where and where not to sit. Don't sit for an hour at a gate closest to end of a moving footpath.

If you regularly travel through Schiphol, you quickly work out where and where not to sit. Don't sit for an hour at a gate closest to end of a moving footpath. You will indeed go mad from the "Mind your step" and other announcements. If you leave from the D pier, for instance, enjoy a coffee at the restaurant halfway down until 30 mins before your flight departs. Then walk to your gate, getting there just in time to stand near the front of the queue for your boarding group. (I had three years of travelling Schiphol to London each week, and now do it roughly monthly...)