Everything our guests ask before a trip to the Netherlands, in one place.
We built these because our guests kept asking the same questions. When do Anne Frank House tickets go on sale? Will the tulips still be out? What is on that week? Which museums are worth the trip?
The calculators and calendars are free and need no sign-up. Transfers, driving days and private tours are a service we arrange and quote for you.
There is more here than a long weekend can hold: the bulb fields of the Bollenstreek, the windmills at Zaanse Schans and Kinderdijk, a moated castle at Muiderslot, the North Sea beaches, the Veluwe, and Bruges and Ghent over the border.
Three days does Amsterdam properly. Five adds two days out. A full week takes in the coast and the countryside as well, and something is in flower here from February to October.
April and May if the flowers are the draw, when the fields are at their best and the days are already long. June and September are every bit as good and in some ways better: warm, light until late, the coast and the countryside at their most inviting, and none of the high summer crush. July and August are the busiest months. November to February is quiet and often wet, and it is the season for the museums, the concert halls and the Christmas markets.
Three full days covers Amsterdam without rushing. Five adds two days out, which might be Delft and the Hague, the windmills at Zaanse Schans, or Keukenhof and the bulb fields in season. A week lets you take in the coast, the Veluwe and a Belgian city as well, and that is the trip that shows you the country rather than the capital.
You cannot book far ahead, because tickets are released on a rolling schedule rather than all at once. What matters is being ready at the moment your date is released. Our ticket calculator gives you that exact date and time.
Far more than the tulips, and over a far longer season. Snowdrops and crocuses from February, daffodils from mid March, then hyacinths, then the tulip fields through April until they are topped around the first of May. Fruit blossom follows, freesias and roses carry the summer, and the dahlia fields come into their own in late summer and early autumn. Timing shifts by a week or two each year with the weather and by a few days between regions.
Driving yourself means city parking that is expensive and scarce, one way charges, and a navigator instead of a view. Most of our guests take a chauffeured car instead: you are met at arrivals, the luggage is handled, the route changes if you want it to, and the car is there when you come out. We quote per transfer or per day.
The calculators and calendars on this page are free and need no sign-up. Everything else is quoted: private tours, transfers and shore excursions are priced on your dates, the size of your party and how far you are going, and you see the figure before you commit. Accommodation is the largest single cost of a Dutch trip and it swings hard with the season and with whatever is on that week.
A great deal, and most of it within an hour. Delft, Haarlem, Utrecht, Leiden, the Hague and Rotterdam all work as day trips. Zaanse Schans and Kinderdijk for the windmills, Marken and Volendam for the old fishing villages, Muiderslot for a genuine medieval castle, the Veluwe for heath and forest, and the North Sea beaches on the doorstep. Bruges and Ghent are close enough for a day.