Limburg · Netherlands
Where to stay in Maastricht
Maastricht is a city in Limburg, Netherlands, home to about 120,000 people. This guide covers 2 hotels in Maastricht, with about 105 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
- May, June and September
- Nearest airport
- MST8 km · Maastricht Aachen Airport
- Currency
- EUReuro
- Time zone
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Language
- Dutch
About
About Maastricht
Maastricht is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg.
Situated within walking distance of Belgium and cycling distance of Germany, Maastricht claims to be the oldest city in the Netherlands (a claim it shares with Nijmegen). It is an especially popular tourist destination in the Netherlands because of its historical old centre and broad shopping possibilities. The city is home to approximately 122,000 people (2019). The University of Maastricht attracts many national and foreign students to the city.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Maastricht
See
- Vrijthof
- St Servaas (Servatius) Basilica
- Onze Lieve Vrouwebasiliek
- Market & Town Hall
- Town wall
- City Library
- University Maastricht Library (centre)
- University Maastricht Library (Randwyck)
- Stadhuis
- Bonnefantenmuseum
- Centre Céramique
- Derlon Museum Cellar
Do
Few Dutch cities take their carnival celebrations as seriously as Maastricht and when the weather is nice, the omnipresent music, laughter, costumes and parades might even make you think of Rio. It's a major happening and the highlight of the year for many of the locals. For a day or three, virtually all of regular life comes to a standstill as the mayor symbolically hands over the key of the city to Prince Carnaval, who is always accompanied by his jester and "council of eleven" advisors.
- Lumière
- Pathé Cinema
- Theater on the Vrijthof
- MECC Maastricht
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Maastricht
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 Boutique Hotel Maastricht City Center hotel | 105 | 85/100 3,453 reviews |
1 more place to stay, without a published guest score
| Place to stay |
|---|
| Garner Hotel Maastricht hotel |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
When to go
The best time to visit Maastricht
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Maastricht are May, June and September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 24 °C; December is the wettest, with about 90 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 Maastricht: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Maastricht Aachen Airport (MST), about 7.8 km from the city centre in a straight line; Liège Airport (LGG, 30 km) and Eindhoven Airport (EIN, 68 km) are also within reach.
Getting around
This is by far the most attractive option as it allows travellers to see the beautiful winding streets in the centre of the city, as well as experience the cultural melting pot that Maastricht's location allows. A particularly nice walk outside of the centre is along the river, from St Servaas Brug (The Stone Bridge near the entrance to the city) down to the JFK Bridge (near the bottom), which goes through Maastricht's largest park. Visitors can then cross the JFK bridge and go to Maastricht's modern art museum - the Bonnefanten (see below).
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MST · Maastricht Aachen Airport
LGG · Liège Airport
EIN · Eindhoven Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Maastricht
Eat
There are many excellent places to eat in the town. Key areas to peruse are around Onze Lieve Vrouweplein, Vrijthof, Maaspromenade and Wycker Brugstraat. Also around Tongersestraat, close to the Economics and Law faculties of the Universiteit Maastricht. Eating out in Maastricht is not always cheap, with most restaurants catering more to a posh older crowd rather than the student population. On weekdays there are a number of good and relatively low-priced sandwich outlets, as well as the usual fries based take-aways.
Drink
Maastricht has many bars, restaurants, pubs and dance clubs, located on Vrijthof and Market Squares, and in the centre of downtown it's nearly impossible to walk around and not see anything to do.
Stay safe
As with much of the Netherlands, Maastricht is a safe city if you are not looking for trouble. Pickpocketing and muggings have been known to occur in less tourist-friendly parts of the city, but tourists are rarely targeted.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Maastricht
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Questions
Maastricht: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Maastricht?
By published guest score: Leonardo Boutique Hotel Maastricht City Center (85 / 100 · 3,453 reviews · www.leonardo-hotels.com (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Maastricht?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Maastricht are May, June and September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 24 °C; December is the wettest, with about 90 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Maastricht?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Maastricht Aachen Airport (MST), about 7.8 km from the city centre in a straight line; Liège Airport (LGG, 30 km) and Eindhoven Airport (EIN, 68 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Maastricht?
euro (EUR).
Nearby
Destinations near Maastricht
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.