The Hague Den Haag, Netherlands South Holland
Netherlands

23 Cruises availables At departure or passage at this port

Emerald Waterways (12 Cruises)

Ponant (1 Cruises)

Tauck Cruises (10 Cruises)


Frequently Asked Questions

At Scheveningen, the city's seaside district, close to the boulevard and the beach. The historic centre lies five or six kilometres away, about fifteen minutes by tram or taxi.
No, and it is a very Dutch paradox. The king works there, parliament sits there and the international courts hand down their judgments there, but the official capital remains Amsterdam.
The wide golden beach, the modern pier with its ferris wheel and the silhouette of the Kurhaus, a nineteenth-century seaside palace recalling the days when all Europe came here to bathe. Seafront kiosks serve new herring the Dutch way.
The complex where Dutch power has been exercised since the thirteenth century, gathered around a cobbled courtyard, including the Hall of Knights with its fairy-tale castle look. The Hofvijver pond mirrors it, edged with fountains: the classic image of The Hague.
At the Mauritshuis, in a Golden Age mansion. The collection is tightly edited — Rembrandt, Ruisdael and above all Vermeer, with Girl with a Pearl Earring and View of Delft — and an hour covers the essentials, which makes it the ideal port-call museum.
The Kunstmuseum, with an exceptional Mondrian collection; the Panorama Mesdag, an 1881 circular painting recreating Scheveningen in the days of flat-bottomed fishing boats; and the museum devoted to the engraver Escher, in a former royal palace on the Lange Voorhout.
The seat of the International Court of Justice, funded by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and opened in 1913. Its park and visitor centre tell more than a century of patient effort to settle the world's conflicts by means other than arms.
Madurodam, a park where the entire Netherlands is laid out in miniature, ports, dykes, windmills and airports included. It is a mischievous summary of a country built on water, and it fits well on the way back to Scheveningen.
By tram or taxi, in about fifteen minutes. The tram is simple and frequent; it is the cheapest option for an independent call.
Yes, and that is the point of the call: the seaside resort on one hand, the city of palaces, museums and embassies on the other. But you must choose your museums — trying to see everything in one day means rushing without savouring anything.