Flevoland · Netherlands
Where to stay in Lelystad
Lelystad is a city in Flevoland, Netherlands, home to about 83,000 people. This guide covers 2 hotels in Lelystad, with about 229 rooms between them. 1 of them carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 2
- Best months
- June and September
- Nearest airport
- AMS54 km · Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Currency
- EUReuro
- Time zone
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Language
- Dutch
About
About Lelystad
Lelystad is a Dutch municipality and the capital city of the province of Flevoland in the central Netherlands. The city, built on reclaimed land, was founded in 1967 and was named after Cornelis Lely, who engineered the Afsluitdijk that made the reclamation possible.
Having been ocean floor at the bottom of the Zuiderzee well into the 20th century (like almost all of Flevoland), Lelystad is a rather "young" city architecturally and historically - but also demographically, compared to the rest of the Netherlands. Like much of the rest of Flevoland, Lelystad is not thought of highly as an exciting tourist destination by the Dutch, but if you want to learn more about the history of land reclamation, or indeed more ancient naval and land history of the Netherlands, visiting Lelystad can prove surprisingly worthwhile.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Lelystad
See
- Bataviawerf
- Nature Park Lelystad
- National Aviation Theme Park Aviodrome
Do
Lelystad has many one-day events like the Airshow Lelystad, the Waterfestival, the National oldtimerday, speedwayraces, Architecture day and several sports events. On the Midland Circuit many motor-, karting- and stock car racing events and several autoclub meetings are held. At the coast there are several marinas. The Oostvaarderplassen is a nature reserve in the Netherlands between Lelystad and Almere. Despite its age, the polder only became dry in 1968, it has an international importance as a European wetland. The Oostvaardersplassen can be divided into two areas, the wet and dry areas.
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Lelystad
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leonardo Hotel Lelystad City Center hotel | 86 | 74/100 1,639 reviews |
1 more place to stay, without a published guest score
| Place to stay | Rooms |
|---|---|
| Hotel Lelystad hotel | 143 |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
Which part of Lelystad to stay in
Lelystad is mostly a day trip destination, so like in the whole of Flevoland, there is only a limited number of accommodation options.
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When to go
The best time to visit Lelystad
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Lelystad are June and September. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 23 °C; August is the wettest, with about 83 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Lelystad: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS), about 54 km from the city centre in a straight line; Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM, 95 km) and Groningen Airport Eelde (GRQ, 100 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Lelystad is right in the middle of the busy Flevolijn/Hanzelijn railway corridor, and its train station, Lelystad Centrum, right in the middle of the city, with a bus terminal just below the train platforms. There are frequent connections to Schiphol, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Vlissingen, Dordrecht, Roosendaal, Almere, Zwolle, Groningen and Leeuwarden, and you can get to pretty much every other station in the Netherlands by changing trains in one of those locations.
Getting around
Lelystad was not designed to be as walkable and enjoyable to explore on foot or by bike as Almere, so your better bet is taking one of the convenient bus lines to your destination. That said, it still has a well-marked network of bike paths and you can safely choose to bike if you are prepared for mundane architecture and disjointed districts along your way. There are 10 local bus lines (numbered from 1 to 11, but note that there is no line 4 anymore) that all go through the Lelystad Centrum bus hub under the railway station.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
AMS · Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
RTM · Rotterdam The Hague Airport
GRQ · Groningen Airport Eelde
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Lelystad
Eat
Lelystad offers a wide variety of cuisines thanks to the many immigrants, especially of Surinamese, Turkish and Moroccan origin living there.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Lelystad
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
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Questions
Lelystad: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Lelystad?
By published guest score: Leonardo Hotel Lelystad City Center (74 / 100 · 1,639 reviews · www.leonardo-hotels.com (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Lelystad?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Lelystad are June and September. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 23 °C; August is the wettest, with about 83 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Lelystad?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS), about 54 km from the city centre in a straight line; Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM, 95 km) and Groningen Airport Eelde (GRQ, 100 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Lelystad?
euro (EUR).
Nearby
Destinations near Lelystad
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.