Amsterdam to Batavia
How long did it take to travel from Amsterdam to Batavia in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1933: 8 days door to door, ƒ 1826 in first class.
Passage computes it for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: pick two places and a date, and print the ticket the purser's clerk would have written.
The journey in 1933
- Embarkation
- Amsterdam
- Sailing
- Thursday 14 September 1933
- Steamer
- Reiger · Oranje Air · Amsterdam – Marseilles – Naples – Alexandria – Baghdad – Karachi – Calcutta – Rangoon – Singapore – Batavia
- Calls
- Marseilles, Naples, Alexandria, Baghdad, Karachi, Calcutta, Rangoon, Singapore
- Night stops
- Marseilles, Naples, Alexandria, Baghdad, Karachi, Calcutta, Rangoon, Singapore
- via
- Athens, Gaza, Basra and Jask, Jodhpur and Allahabad, Bangkok, Medan
- Arrival
- Batavia, Friday 22 September 1933
- Door to door
- 8 days
- Fare · Single class
- ƒ 1826
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