Travel guide and tips for visiting Keukenhof Park in 2024, the Dutch tulip garden near Amsterdam, with practical information on how to get there, tickets, accommodation and attractions.
More than 7 million tulips, daffodils and hyacinths give a color and perfume show at the Keukenhof, Holland’s largest tulip park, which attracts millions of visitors from around the world!
Updated information for Keukenhof 2024 and the flower exhibition (we don’t know yet the theme of this year, but in 2022 was “Flower Classics”).
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Dates and times of operation of the Keukenhof in 2024
Do not miss it!
When to visit the Keukenhof garden?
In 2024, the Keukenhof will be open from March 21, 2024 to May 12, 2024 from 8 am to 7.30 pm (last entry at 6 pm) and the famous Flower Parade will be on April 20th, 2024.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of daily visitors will be reduced and entry time will be controlled. You can read more information in the park’s FAQ.
Be sure to buy your tickets for Keukehof Holland in 2024 in advance to avoid the big lines.
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Covid regulations to visit Keukenhof and see the the Flower Parade
The Keukenhof park and throughout the Parade, both respect the current Covid regulations of Netherlands at all times.
To get more and updated information, please read more about COVID-19 on the website of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment.
How to get to the Keukenhof in Netherlands
Important: Amsterdam public transport and the pro Keukenhof bus do not accept cash payments!
Where is the Keukenhof garden and how to get there? Here you will find the best tips to get from Amsterdam to the Keukenhof in the Netherlands, whether by public transport or private tour.
The Keukenhof Express is a bus that goes straight to the Keukenhof, with no intermediate stops and estimated time of 30 minutes. Two lines are available, one from Schiphol Airport (Schiphol Plaza) and the other from Leiden Centraal train station:
- Departing from Amsterdam: take bus line 397 to Schiphol Plaza and from there, take the Keukenhof Express.
- Departing from Schiphol Airport: exit at Arrivals Hall 4, which is near Starbucks, from there leaves the Keukenhof Express (Line 858)
The combo “Ticket plus Transfer” from Amsterdam already includes transport tickets and park entrance. You can finde some options to buy the ticket or reserve only the transfer to Keukenhof park:
- From Amsterdam: Keukenhof and Tulip Fields Transfer
- From Amsterdam: One-Way Private Transfer to/from Keukenhof
The Keukenhof garden is not far from Amsterdam, it is located in Stationsweg 166A, 2161 AM Lisse, Netherlands. The best way how to get by car: Keukenhof is easily accessible via motorways A4 (exit Nieuw-Vennep) and A44 (exit 3, Lisse).
Things to do in Keukenhof in 2024
See tulips!
What to do in the Keukenhof gardens in Holland? Every year, the Keukenhof garden chooses a theme for the park. In 2020 the theme of the park was “A world of colors” (A world of colors), celebrating over a million people from all countries and cultures who travel to the Keukenhof to enjoy the spectacular Dutch flowers. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, the park cannot be opened.
In 2022, the flower exhibition’s theme was ‘Flower Classics’. As explains Keukenhof director Bart Siemerink: “Flowers are classic symbols used in the arts for centuries. As is apparent in several works on view at the Mauritshuis. Replicas of a number of these will be on show at Keukenhof for visitors to admire.”
From 21 March 2024 onwards, there will be a special Mauritshuis inspirational garden at Keukenhof which will feature a replica of Johannes Vermeer’s most famous painting, Girl with Pearl Earring. The impossible bouquet, consisting of flowers that all bloom at different times of the year, will also be brought to life!
In 2024, the Mauritshuis will celebrate its 200th anniversary as a public institution throughout the year with a series of special exhibitions. One of the highlights of the anniversary year will be the exhibition ‘In full bloom’.
The Mauritshuis (in english: Maurice House) is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings. The collection contains works by Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Hans Holbein the Younger, and others. Originally, the 17th century building was the residence of count John Maurice of Nassau. It is now the property of the government of the Netherlands and is listed in the top 100 Dutch heritage sites.
Everyone loves flowers, spring, tulips and bright fields. Flowers and colors connect people around the world in celebrations and rituals, in every culture in their own way.
The Keukenhof park invites everyone to discover the power of color in the world’s most colorful garden.
The theme of the year still appears in Flower Parade and other areas of the Keukenhof, such as the Thematic Gardens and the Oranje Nassau Pavilion, which is very close to the mosaic.
Flower Pavilions
The pavilions are greenhouses with the most beautiful tulips and different types of flowers, some of them very rare.
- Oranje Nassau Pavilion: the largest with several different flowers every week and flower arrangers provide spectacular daily flower arranging demonstrations.
- Beatrix Pavilion: orchids and anthuriums for eight weeks.
- Willem Alexander Pavilion: shows many thousands of tulips and during the last days of the season it is home to the world’s largest lily show.
- Juliana Pavilion: where the Tulpomania exhibition takes place with the tale of the tulip since the 17th century.
Inside them you’ll also find restaurants and toilets.
Windmill
This mill was built in 1892 and was originally in the town of Groningen. Only in 1957 he was relocated to the Keukenhof. And it still works! You can enter it and, from above, see part of the tulip fields that surround the park.
Inspirational Gardens
At Inspirational Gardens you can visit the themed gardens with various designs to inspire you and make a beautiful garden in your own home. In 2019, following the theme “Flower Power” of this year, its gardens are: Love & Peace Garden, Strawberry Fields Garden, Happiness Garden, Flower Power Garden, Ibiza Garden and The Green Machine Garden. What will we see in 2021?
Attractions for Children
One of the funniest places in the park is the Miffy’s House, the bunny created by the Dutchman Dick Bruna that has become a hit in the world. In the area there is a playground for children and also animals at the petting zoo.
Buy your tickets to Keukehof tulip garden in 2024 in advance to avoid the big lines.
How to visit the tulip fields by bike in Keukenhof, Holland
One of the best attractions around the Keukenhof park is to rent a bicycle and discover the different tulip fields. There are some pre-established itineraries that you can take when renting your bike, but you are also allowed to explore the tulip gardens in the region freely.
Just pay attention to some rules, such as not getting into the plantations, traffic rules and the amount of people and cars in the city.
We have written several tips and also how to best plan your trip at Keukenhof in Lisse, Holland – Tips to rent a bike and cycle the tulip fields.
Flowers Parade, Keukenhof in the Netherlands
Beautiful floats decorated with flowers!
When to see the Flower Parade near the Keukenhof park? The Flower Parade will take place from April 17th to 21th, 2024. It will begin on April 20th, 2024 around 9:15 AM in Noordwijk. At approximately 3 pm, the beautiful cars decorated with flowers will go to Keukenhof and at around 9:30 pm they will reach Haarlem. The main date of Flower Parade will take place on Saturday 20th April, 2024.
The Flower Parade, also called Bloemencorso of the Bollenstreek, is an unforgettable show. Don’t miss out!
Visitors can take a moment to watch the parade and come back later. Don’t forget to save your ticket to return to the park.
More information on the oficial site of Bloemencorso of the Bollenstreek.
Theme of the Flower Parade of the Bollenstreek
Living in Freedom.
The Netherlands will celebrate this exuberantly in 2024. We don’t know yet the theme for this year, but the last year was Freedom.
The Flower Parade Bollenstreek chose the theme ‘Freedom’ for the parade on April 2022. A beautiful theme to express in flowers. Experience it and come to the Bollenstreek during the construction days, culminating in the 42 kilometer journey of the moving floats from Noordwijk to Haarlem.
Freedom is a word that refers to ability to act at one’s own will. Both in how you feel, where you live, how you look, who you do business with or who you choose as an evening partner. It is an achievement that you must continuously strive for for yourself and make possible for others. It is no coincidence that the Netherlands thanked the Canadian liberators after 1945 with thousands of yellow tulips. Come and see for yourself how we will once again express the Freedom theme with millions of bulb flowers in 2024.
The Flower Parade of the Bollenstreek is the largest international Spring Festival that is celebrated by more than a million people in one week.
Where to stay to visit the Keukenhof in Holland
The closest cities are Leiden and Haarlem, where the Flowers Parade ends.
What are the best hotel and hostel near the Keukenhof gardens? But it was not one of those we chose, showing that in fact the Netherlands is all very close and easily accessible. The first time we stayed in Noordwijk at the Hostel Stayokay Noordwijk, and the following year we chose the town of Voorburg, only 30 minutes drive from Lisse, where we stayed at the Hotel Savelberg.
If you have already booked Amsterdam, no problem, as we wrote on how to get to the Keukenhof, is quite close, it is only 30 km to the park.
You can seek other lodging options near Keukenhof Park.
Hotel and hostel accommodation suggestions and options near the Keukenhof park:
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