The definitive guide to one of Europe's most intriguing countries.
Find tips on exploring everything the Netherlands has to offer, from the museums and canals of Amsterdam to the reedy marshes and lagoons of the Biesbosch. This guidebook features color photography on every region, full-color maps, and sections on van Gogh and Rembrandt, cycling, and beer. The chapter on Amsterdam makes it easier than ever to visit this buzzing, style-conscious capital.
At every step, The Rough Guide to the Netherlands picks out the best hotels, cafés, and restaurants across every price range, giving you clear, balanced reviews and honest, first-hand opinions. You'll find insider tips on where the locals spend their time, as well as advice on how to make your money go further.
Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to the Netherlands.
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Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips. Since November 2017, Rough Guides has been owned by APA Publications UK Ltd, the parent company of Insight Guides. With the company's personalised trip service encompassing over eighty destinations, and 200 guidebooks covering 180 destinations, Rough Guides is a multi-faceted travel platform, with global sales of 100 million guidebooks since their inception.
My habit when I plan to travel, is to buy a travel book. Like this one. I bought it for my 11 days trip to Brussels and the Netherlands. As for the Netherlands, it really helped. You can find suggestions on activities to you, local attractions although there are few that was quite outdated by a year, lists of hotels and trams numbers to take from point A to point B, to do lists in the cities and most importantly, suggestion on museums and places to eat. I finished reading the whole book about 3 hours before I arrived in Amsterdam. After surviving 11 days of travelling, I can safely say, this book is a good guide book.
Great start to planning a trip, but could use a few small features, such a place to write a wishlist for destinations, and identifier for where the pictures are from. The pictures are intriguing, but have no labels to tell of which destination they are associated with. Overall, this is definitely the book I am using to plan my next trip.