Sarah

Most major train stations in Germany have left luggage lockers of varying sizes where you can leave your case.
Check out http://www.Duesseldorf.de and click on the union flag for an English guide to some info and ideas.

Do leave yourselves plenty of time to get to Weeze.

Weeze (or Niederrhein or whatever they are calling it this year!) is actually on the Dutch border but public transport is pretty poor.

I can't work out from your post whether you have a night in Germany or just a very long break between flights.

General transport arrangements for the airport are shown at http://www.airport-weeze.de/2-1_lage_u_anfahrt.php?lang=en but the direct buses to the Netherlands are expensive.

The local bus connections are to Weeze or Kevelaer stations although the times shown by the airport don't match those of the local transport authority which could be important, especially on the way back. For detailed times see http://www.bahn.co.uk and enter Airport Terminal 1, Weeze as the airport stop name.

The next town of any interest would be Kleve (as in Anne of Cleves for students of Henry 8th).

Sites to look at for ideas are

http://www.weeze.de then click the flag for Engish version
http://www.kevelaer.de - no English version but the links Tourismus, Kultur and Webcam are all pretty obvious about what comes next!
http://www.kleve.de - also no English version

there is also an hourly bus from Kleve station to Nijmegen in the Netherlands with an overall journey from the airport of about 2 hours but if you've got to drag the cases around probably too much effort.

Thank you for both of your help. I'll be looking at all the links.

My basic plan is....

Leeds airport to Amsterdam

Stay there for 2 nights

Get the train to Dusseldorf arriving 12pm approx

Stay in Dusseldorf around 5 hours

Train/Bus whatever to Weeze for flight at 9pm

Fly to Girona

Stay in Lloret de Mar for 3 nights then fly home again. Phewww!!!

I wouldn't bother with Dusseldorf, it isn't really worth the effort for an afternoon.

Try Nijmegen instead, fast train from Amsterdam Centraal (most also call at Amstel) every 30 minutes taking about 90 minutes (€17).

Trains http://www.ns.nl/cs/Satellite/travellers
Town http://english.nijmegen.nl

Onward by either the direct airport coach linked from the airport site or bus-train-bus via Kleve to the airport (slightly cheaper). You can check times from Nijmegen in the German transport site previously given, weekdays the connection works every hour and takes 2'12" (last usable service would be Nijmegen dep 1717 Airport arrive 1929). The bus to Kleve is run by the Germans and you might even be able to buy one ticket for the whole journey. Personally I'd leave Nijmegen at 1417 and find somehwere to eat in Kleve or Weeze before continuing to the airport, German pubs are better value than Dutch!

Thanks just checked Nijmegen out and it looks so much nicer. One hour less on the train from Amsterdam and one hour less on the shuttle bus to the airport. Looks like that'll be where I send the day before the flight. Cheers!

Don't forget the Nijmegen-Airport shuttle has to be reserved in advance using the Hottgenroth link off the airport travel page. NS station info in Dutch says Nijmegen main station has luggage lockers. Sounds like a good trip, have fun!!