The Rough Guide to the Netherlands

by Rough Guides

There's a great deal more to Holland than Amsterdam, but the rest of the country is often overlooked as visitors throng the coffee shops and canals of the city. Holland is perhaps the most civilized and humane country in the world, its fifteen million inhabitants (most of whom speak English) living in a nation the size of Maine and a quarter the size of England. There's more diversity than you would perhaps expect, too, from the reclaimed polders of the North Sea to the hills of Limburg. The Rough Guide does justice to Dutch flavours, art, history and literature and gives you every practical assistance along the way.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Reference

416 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1997

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Nickolai · Rating 5 out of 5]

Очень подробный и обстоятельный путеводитель, один из лучших по Нидерландам.

[Faa · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 You can find suggestions on activities to you, local attractions although there are few that was quite outdated by a year, lists of hotels and trams numbers to take from point A to point B, to do lists in the cities and most importantly, suggestion on museums and places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.

[JB · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Vanessa theJeepDiva · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought this book for a trip I was taking to Amsterdam. It was very helpful. I used it for planning my place to go during the week that I was there.

[Nuno Picareta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book to immerse the best of Amsterdam.

[Agnes DiPietrantonio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always informative

Rough Guide is a must before you travel and a real help while at your destination.Even better now that it's an e-book

[Jared Ross · Rating 4 out of 5]

One day we will travel again. Until then I can plan...