Holland tour accommodation advice.

d87heaven
d87heaven Posts: 348
edited January 2011 in Tour & expedition
Planning on doing a 5 day (120 miles or so) tour of holland at easter. Accommodation will be b&b/hotel. Any idea if its adviasable to book accomadation ahead of time or is it feasible to just turn up and find somewhere?
Any other advice welcome as this will be a first trip with a view to a longer one if we like it.
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel

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  • apreading
    apreading Posts: 4,535
    May not be your thing but might be worth looking at: http://cycling.skedaddle.co.uk/region/C ... view.rails

    There are course notes so you could follow the course if interested but make your own arrangements.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    At Easter, yes, book ahead - it's school holidays there too.

    For routes, there are cycle paths/lanes everywhere, but since a couple of years the Dutch CTC has linked them into a dense network of recreational routes covering the whole country, signed and with easy-to-remember numbered hubs:
    recreational: http://www.fietsersbond.nl/fietsroutepl ... index.html
    It's in Dutch, but easy to enough to work out.
  • d87heaven
    d87heaven Posts: 348
    Cheers guys. Anone know if there is a 'travel inn' style hotel chain in holland?
    Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    d87heaven wrote:
    Cheers guys. Anone know if there is a 'travel inn' style hotel chain in holland?

    Bastion - https://www.bastionhotels.nl/en
    Van der Valk - http://www.valk.com/
    AC - http://www.ac-restaurants-hotels.nl/

    All motorway-based though
  • mikebcycling
    mikebcycling Posts: 9
    As I've just mentioned in the East Flanders thread, have you considered the Vrienden op de Fiets organisation? Have a look at their website. Much more personal and reasonably priced than either B&Bs or hotels, in with the families and enjoying marvellous hospitality. We've stayed in Holland, Flanders and Germany with Vrienden and enjoyed the experience so much that we now host through it.
  • d87heaven
    d87heaven Posts: 348
    Thanks for the info FJS

    Mike - I did see that thread and info but Im a pretty unsocial type and prefer a b&b/hotel affair. Thanks for the thought though!
    Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel
  • fietslogies
    fietslogies Posts: 46
    That unsocial? ;-)

    Some hosts of 'Vrienden op de Fiets' have a separate accommodation. That's always indicated in the booklet. Sometimes it's even a garden pavilion or a lovely garden shed. And if not, it's only the bathroom that will be shared. Nothing more. Nothing less. It's not CouchSurfing.
    60 bicycle trails along Belgian canals, rivers and former railway tracks : http://www.bikely.com/listpaths/by/fietslogies

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