Best Dutch Vacation Homes

 If you're looking for a high-quality crash-pad on the Dutch side of the border within taxi distance of Weeze Airport (formerly known as Düsseldorf-Weeze Airport), this gem will bring a sparkle to your eye. A kitchen equipped with four independent induction hotplates, an air fryer and a state-of-the-art juicer make this kitchen a self-catering colossus. The bathtub, while not a full Jacuzzi, does boast a healthy four side-jets and the pillows in the master bedroom are certified memory foam. So, to put it simply, if you need a place to stay in the Netherlands within the catchment area of Weeze, this little number has you covered.

  Now this Spakenburg vacation villa probably looks totally normal to the casual observer. Throughout the municipalities of  Greater Utrecht, there are any number of very similar houses. However, this one comes with a fun secret. As you walk through the house or even culsult the architectural plans held at the registry office in Bunschoten, you will see that there are two bathrooms in the property. They are both modern and well equipped with all of the necessary bathroom functionality, and most people accept that two high-class bathrooms is probably suitable for a facility of this size. The secret is this: somewhere, hidden within this Dutch vacation home, there is a third, clandestine bathroom. You might not find it and that's fine. The vacation home is more that sufficient without the third bathroom. It's got underfloor heating, an outdoor kitchen, built-in closets, a boot room AND a mud room, a secure child's play area, a small wine refrigerator. We could go on but you p...

Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a vacation home in a faraway place called Edam, The Netherlands. Now this vacation home had two-bedrooms, one of which featured a carpeted on-suite. There was a kitchen, and yes, it had high-quality composite countertops, an American-style fridge-freezer, a fully electric oven and a brand-name espresso machine built right into the cabinetry. And the visitors to this accommodation all thought to themselves, "I can just stay here in the vacation home, because it's no nice." But then, like gently awaking from a pleasant dream on a Sunday at 10:00AM, they'd remember why they'd come to Edam in the first place. They wanted learn about and sample the magnificent cheese to which the town so generously lends its name. And that's what they would do: exploring the lanes in the old cheese quarter, attending a class to understand the different traditional methods by which Edam was produces, sitting on a park bench and re...

  In order to have "best" Dutch vacation homes, it is also necessary to have leisure dwellings that are merely ok. And this is one of those. This Naarden single bedroom is fine by most standards. If it was in Belgium, it would probably be considered one of the very best, but as we have learned, in the Netherlands, there is stiff competition for such accolades. So in what ways is this Dutch vacation home passable? Let's start with the pull out double sofa, which while not the most comfortable bed one might encounter, could easily accommodate two small humans for up to three nights, after which they would be able to rotate into the more traditional non-couch embedded bed in the bedroom. There is a microwave with a dedicated pizza function, a walk in shower with VERY hot water available and an arm chair, which can be reclined if pulled into the centre of the living room, thereby precluding any other possible seating in that area.