Guest book
Welcome to our guest book! Do you have any questions, comments and suggestions about this site? Have you found a broken link? Do you want to tell us about your cycling experiences in Holland? We'd love to hear what you have to say. Please leave a message, or contact us at info@holland-cycling.com.
Clive Langman
Juraj Spaldon
my friend Martina and I have been spending our summer holidays on bicycles for 10 years. This year we decided to visit the Netherlands. Your website was a great source of information and tips for us on where to go and what to see there. So in July we visited Utrecht, Alkmaar, Zaanse Schans, Amsterdam (on foot), Sneek, Hindeloopen, Leeuwarden, following the footsteps of the Elfstedentocht race. We appreciated the possibility of downloading the routes in GPX format, then we adapted them to our capabilities and used them in navigation.
As always, we wrote a short article about this expedition on our blog (nabicykli.tao.sk/holandsko.html but it is only in Slovak), at the end we mention your website as a great source of information. Thank you for your great work and come to Slovakia for a bike ride sometime (but we also have some hills here...).
Juraj and Martina, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Hilary Staples
Thanks for sending a link to your blog with your story about your visit to Holland. Unfortunately I don't understand Slovak, but still all the pictures and maps give a good impression of your trip!
Great to hear you found our information useful and used some our routes, adapting them to your capabilities. That is exactly how we intended them to be used. Hope you return to Holland soon to explore more of the country by bike :-)
Sue
Steven Staples
Dear Sue,
Schiermonnikoog is a lovely, albeit small island. It has cycle paths, but no numbred cycle network or any specific cycle route. There's really one single round-trip. Destinations (the lighthouse, bunker etc.) will be signposted. You can also see them on the Fietserbond Cycle Route Planner.
The Fietserbond Cycle Route Planner app (in Dutch) can be downloaded through their website: en.routeplanner.fietsersbond.nl/page/mobile, for both Android and iOS, or you can use their mobile website m.routeplanner.fietsersbond.nl. This is the old version of their mobile app, the new app has more functionality.
Enjoy your stay on Schiermonnikoog!
Steven
Shaun Perry
Hilary Staples
I presume you're referring to the cycle routes of the National LF Network. Yes, you will find all the routes marked on the online cycle route planner and on most cycle maps of the Netherlands. See:
https://www.holland-cycling.com/planning-your-trip/planning-your-route/online-cycle-route-planner
https://www.holland-cycling.com/planning-your-trip/planning-your-route/maps-and-books
Elizabeth Mitchell
I saved your website from several years ago when I had planned to visit Holland but couldn't. Now, my husband and I are coming during the Tulip Season and also taking a cruise out of Rotterdam. Lucky for me, I bookmarked your website. I KNOW it will be helpful to plan some cycling routes during April. We will have five days to pedal around before we leave on the cruise.
Thank goodness for Holland-Cycling.com. I don't want to pay someone else to plan our routes. It gets expensive!!! I'm really looking forward to using your site.
Fayetteville, Arkansas USA
anthonyJahn
Paula
Hilary Staples
Thanks for your message. The Arnhem to Arnhem around Holland route is one of the long distance routes by Nederland Fietsland. On their (Dutch) page about the route, you will find a map of the route which is not confused. You wil also find buttons to download the gpx tracks and to purchase their guide book for the route (only in Dutch). If you scroll down further you will find how they have subdivided the route into 21 stages (50-80 km per day). Here you can see which towns the route passes through.
If you don't like long flat cycling on dykes, the section to skip if necessary is Den Helder-Lauwerwmeer. This includes the 32-km Afsluitdijk. As the Afsluitdijk is still closed due to large-scale maintenance work, you could opt to avoid part of this section by island hopping. This is an option I can highly recommend! See our blog Afsluitdijk closed for cyclists.
The Netherlands has a good railway network and it is possible to take your bike on the train. See our page Getting around Holland by Rail. However, if you want to use the train to skip parts of the route, you will have to plan this properly. For example, Den Helder and Harlingen both have a train station, but to skip this section with the Afsluitdijk, you will need to make a long detour around the IJsselmeer and back up north again. Not impossible, but probably not that practical.
Glynis Tupling
Hilary Staples
Mark Holling
Hilary Staples
T. Wehrhan
Hilary Staples
You can read entries from before January 1, 2021 on the Guest book archive page.