Eurail Holland Rail Travel Pass
Eurail Holland Pass offers 3 to 10 days of unlimited train travel in a 1 month period throughout Holland in first or second class. From the vivid canvases of Van Gogh and the solemn Anne Frank house, to its well-known Red Light District, Amsterdam offers visitors a wide mix of things to see. But there is more to this country that its capital, all of which is easily accessible by rail..
Eurail Holland Rail Travel Pass allows a choice of 3 or 5 flexible days of 1st or 2nd class travel within a 1 month period and is a great way to explore a land of art, flowers, windmills and modern-day vitality.
Amsterdam, The Hague, De Doorn and Ijmuiden all offer a multitude of beautiful sights and amazing history and all are included with this pass.
There is no better way to explore Holland than with the Holland railpass.
The Netherlands or Holland may be a small country, but this region is jam-packed with fantastic landscapes and incredible culture. See the quaint windmills and vibrant tulips and walk along cobble-stoned Amsterdam’s world-famous canals! With Eurail’s dense railway network in Holland, you can get where you want to go easily and conveniently.
The Eurail Holland Pass entitles you to unlimited train travel in The Netherlands:
Available for 3 or 5 days within a 1-month period
There are 1st class and 2nd class version for adults
For travelers under 26 years of age, there is a reduced price Pass in 2nd class available (Youth Pass
For children aged 4 up to and including 11 years of age there is a real good bargain, they pay only EUR 2 for one day of unlimited rail travel in first or second class if they travel with an adult. These special tickets can be bought at the local ticket office or ticket machine in the Netherlands.
The Eurail Holland Pass also entitles you to benefit from bonuses, such as reduced fares for the ferry to Harwich and Newcastle in the UK and discounts at Hilton Hotels. Moreover, with the purchase of a Eurail Pass you will receive a free Eurail Traveler's Guide with a railway map of Europe and a Eurail Timetable with the main rail connections in Europe.

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Eurail Holland Rail Travel Pass allows a choice of 3 or 5 flexible days of 1st or 2nd class travel within a 1 month period and is a great way to explore a land of art, flowers, windmills and modern-day vitality.

Amsterdam, The Hague and Ijmuiden all offer a multitude of beautiful sights and amazing history and all are included with this pass.

There is no better way to explore Holland than with the Holland railpass.

Note: As Eurail travel passes are not able to be purchased in the country of travel advance purchase is essential and also costs less when made online.


Eurail Holland Rail Travel Pass

The Netherlands, or Holland, may be a small country but this region is jam-packed with fantastic landscapes and incredible culture.

One of the most popular single country passes, the Holland Pass allows options that will fit any travel itinerary.

The Britrail Network includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

With Eurail’s dense railway network in Holland, you can get where you want to go easily and conveniently. See the quaint windmills and vibrant tulips and walk along cobble-stoned Amsterdam’s world-famous canals!

The Eurail Holland Pass entitles you to unlimited train travel in The Netherlands:

  • Available for 3 or 5 days within a 1-month period
  • There are 1st class and 2nd class version for adults
  • For travelers under 26 years of age, there is a reduced price Pass in 2nd class available (Youth Pass)
  • For children aged 4 up to and including 11 years of age there is a real good bargain, they pay only EUR 2 for one day of unlimited rail travel in first or second class if they travel with an adult. These special tickets can be bought at the local ticket office or ticket machine in the Netherlands.

The Eurail Holland Pass also entitles you to benefit from bonuses, such as reduced fares for the ferry to Harwich and Newcastle in the UK and discounts at Hilton Hotels.

Moreover, with the purchase of a Eurail Pass you will receive a free Eurail Traveler's Guide with a railway map of Europe and a Eurail Timetable with the main rail connections in Europe.

Using Your Eurail Holland Rail Pass

  • Always have your pass validated prior to your first train trip in Europe. Do NOT validate it yourself.
  • Passes are issued on identity, not to be used by any other person.
  • The Flexi Passes have a schedule with boxes to fill in the date of travel. Always fill in the boxes yourself before embarking on the train.
  • When taking an overnight train leaving after 7 pm, please fill in the next day of travel in your Flexi Passes. Travel days would have to be within the validity of the pass.
  • There are free bonus and discounted bonus that entitle you to reductions with every pass your purchase.
  • When you use a free bonus, you will have to use a day of your pass. A discounted bonus will not utilize any day of your pass.


More About Holland Rail Travel

The Netherlands has an extensive and much-used railway network, connecting virtually all cities and many towns with each other. Trains are frequent, with two trains per hour on most lines in the country, up to 8 or 10 trains an hour between the big cities. Trains are divided into stoptreinen (stop trains, stopping at all stations), sneltreinen (fast trains, stopping in bigger towns) and intercities, providing fast connections between the bigger cities.

There is a night service, called Nachtnet (Night Network, although it is just a single U-shaped line) with a hourly service connecting Rotterdam Central, Delft, The Hague Central, Leiden Central, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam Central, Utrecht Central (i.e., most of the large cities in the Randstad as well as the main airport). Due to the U-shape, the travelling time from the first four stations to Utrecht is longer than during the day.

Metros and trams usually run from around 06:00 until midnight. There are night buses in a number of cities, but only on Friday and Saturday night in the smaller ones. Sometimes these will only run during the first part of the night, or in one direction only; e.g. the Connexxion-Niteliner.

NS Reizigers operates passenger trains (both InterCity and local) over the core railway network in The Netherlands. Regional networks have and are still being tendered, and some private operators have taken over parts of the network.

In 1999 and 2000 private railway Noordned took over the operation of local trains on the lines radiating from from Leeuwarden and Groningen (Leeuwarden-Harlingen, Leeuwarden-Stavoren, Leeuwarden-Groningen, Groningen-Roodeschool, Groningen-Delfzijl and Groningen-Nieuweschans). Noordned was later acquired by Arriva, and since December 2005 the service is operated as Arriva Nederland. New stock has been ordered for the lines, including the line from Nieuweschans to Leer in Germany.

Already for quite a few years Connexxion runs trains on Almelo-Mariënberg, but these are actually operated by Syntus. From December 2006 Connexxion will take over the passenger trains on Amersfoort-Ede=Wageningen from NSR. New trainsets have been ordered, but these will only arrive in 2007.

More About Holland

From the vivid canvases of Van Gogh and the solemn Anne Frank house, to its well-known Red Light District, Amsterdam offers visitors a wide mix of things to see. But there is more to this country that its capital, all of which is easily accessible by rail.

The Netherlands is a densely populated country with famous cities like Amsterdam known for the Rijksmuseum (the national museum), canals, the castle and its cosy pubs. Other famous cities are the Royal city The Hague with its elegant downtown, modern

But the Netherlands also has to offer a great coastline along the North Sea, the IJsselmeer and the Veluwemeer - great resorts for sailing with picturesque little typical Dutch towns like Elburg or Harderwijk. The Netherlands is a great country for cycling, sailing or ice skating in winter. They have mainly flat landscapes with many canals, windmills, little villages, rivers like the Rhine or IJssel, Maas or Scheldt. Visitors should try some original Dutch pancakes, either with meat, famous Dutch cheese or with jam, and Dutch beer like "Grolsch" and "Heineken". Tulips grow around Lisse behind the dunes and Keukenhof is a well-known tourist attraction; in spring there are many beautiful tulips on display there. Prostitution, which has also made the Netherlands infamous, was legalized on October 1st, 2000.

Many tourists visit Madurodam, a miniature city in The Hague, which show most typical and famous Dutch buidlings. Like the kaasmarkt(cheese market), mills and Paleis op de Dam.

Popular souvenirs from the Netherlands are delftware and clogs (wooden shoes).

Almost the whole westcoast has a sandy beach. Towns near the coast are beach resorts, in between there are long stretches of quiet beach. Though most of them are natural parks nowdays.

The Dutch themselves like to subscribe to a fietsvierdaagse — an annual cycling family event.

A remarkable aspect of the Netherlands is the flatness of the country. About half of its surface area is less than 1 metre (3.3 ft) above sea level, and large parts of it are actually below sea level.

An extensive range of dykes and dunes protects these areas from flooding. Numerous massive pumping stations keep the ground water level in check. The highest point, the Vaalserberg, in the south-eastern most point of the country, is 321 metres (1,053 ft) above sea level.

A substantial part of the Netherlands, for example, all of Flevoland (the largest man-made island in the world) and large parts of Holland, has been reclaimed from the sea. These areas are known as polders. This has led to the saying "God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands."

 


Please Note: As Eurail rail travel passes are not able to be purchased in the country of travel advance purchase is essential and will also cost you less.


 

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