Day trips
Day trips in the Netherlands
High-converting guided and self-guided trips from Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht.
Editor's pickAmsterdam & Randstad · Day trips
I Amsterdam City Card
The pass to compare when you want museums, transit and a canal cruise.
North Holland · Day trips
Haarlem highlights, canals and hofjes
A low-crowd day-trip route with market squares and hidden courtyards.
South Holland & Delta · Day trips
Scheveningen beach
The North Sea, fifteen minutes by tram from a parliamentary city.
South & Limburg · Day trips
Maastricht caves and Vrijthof route
The southern route that makes the Netherlands feel bigger than flat canals.
South Holland & Delta · Day trips
Binnenhof and the Hofvijver
Seven centuries of Dutch government, seen from the far side of a pond.
Central Netherlands · Day trips
Kasteel de Haar
The largest castle in the country, and almost entirely a 1900 invention.
South Holland & Delta · Day trips
Markt
Town hall at one end, Nieuwe Kerk at the other, market days in between.
North Holland · Day trips
Grote Markt
The square that makes the case for skipping Amsterdam for a day.
East & North · Day trips
Giethoorn car-free village walk
The footpath and bridges everyone photographs, free and never shut.
South & Limburg · Day trips
Fort Sint Pieter
A 1701 pentagonal fort above the Jeker valley, guided tour only.
South & Limburg · Day trips
Onze-Lieve-Vrouweplein
The city's best square, and it is the one nobody photographs.
South & Limburg · Day trips
Sint Servaasbrug
A thirteenth-century stone bridge, still the way you cross the Maas.
South Holland & Delta · Day trips
Burcht van Leiden
A ring wall on an artificial mound, free and open, twenty minutes well spent.
East & North · Day trips
Eierland lighthouse
The red tower at the north tip, climbable for a few euros.
East & North · Day trips
Blokzijl
A harbour town the sea abandoned, eight kilometres west.