Guides

Written from driving these routes several times a week. Where a place is not worth your time we say so, which is more useful to you than it is to us.

• Is Giethoorn worth visiting?

  Two hours each way is a real cost. Here is when it pays off and when it does not.

• The best time to visit Keukenhof

  Week by week through the season, and what is actually in bloom when.

• The best day trips from Amsterdam

  Ranked by how much of the day you spend travelling versus looking at things.

• Private or group tour: the actual maths

  At what group size a private tour becomes the cheaper option.

• What to do on an Amsterdam layover

  Sorted by how many hours you have between flights.