Schiphol by arrangement, on the day you fly in
A room at a Schiphol airport hotel is taken one booking at a time, with the journey time agreed with you in writing before the hour is fixed.
Plenty of cruise couples land the day before a sailing and stay by the airport rather than in the city, either because the transfer collects from there in the morning or because nobody wanted to move twice after a long flight. Those rooms are reachable. They are simply arranged differently.
Outside the sixty minutes
The forty to sixty minute window belongs to central Amsterdam. An airport hotel sits beyond it, and rather than pretend otherwise, the house agrees the journey with you before the hour is fixed, in writing, so the two of you know what you are waiting for. That conversation takes a few lines and settles the evening.
Why it always carries a deposit
A room at Schiphol or at an airport hotel is one of the bookings that carries half the fee in advance on its own account, whatever the notice and whoever is asking. A fly-in booking usually meets the twenty-four hour rule first anyway, so in practice this changes nothing for a couple planning from home.
What a delayed flight does to it
Write as soon as you know. More than twenty-four hours out, the booking moves free of charge. Inside the final day, a flight moved by an airline is read on the notice scale like any other change, because it sits on your side of the line rather than the force majeure side. The fly-in page covers that in full.
Nowhere else
Amsterdam and the airport hotels are the whole of the coverage. No town beyond them is reached, whatever the hour and whatever the length, and asking does not change the answer.