South Holland · Netherlands
Where to stay in The Hague
The Hague is a city in South Holland, Netherlands, home to about 548,000 people. This guide covers 3 hotels and 2 aparthotels in The Hague, with about 365 rooms between them. 2 of them carry a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 5
- Best months
- June and July
- Nearest airport
- RTM16 km · Rotterdam The Hague Airport
- Currency
- EUReuro
- Time zone
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Language
- Dutch
About
About The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands.
Internationally, The Hague is often known as the "judicial capital of the world" due to the many international courts that are located in the city. Among these are the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and, since 2004, the International Criminal Court. Beside these institutions, The Hague is home to more than 150 international organizations, and to many EU institutions, multinational companies and embassies. This gave the city a distinct international character — one that is noticeably different from Amsterdam.
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Things to do
What to see and do in The Hague
See
The heart of the city contains most of the historic architecture from the medieval, renaissance, and Baroque periods and is easily accessible on foot. You'll also find lots of outdoor cafes and shopping near the Plein on the Lange Poten or just east of there on the Hofweg.
- Plein
- Binnenhof
- Mauritshuis
- Galerij Prins Willem V
- Gevangenpoort
- Bredius Museum
- Lange Voorhout
- Escher in Het Paleis
- Grote Kerk
- Nieuwe Kerk
- Oude Stadhuis
- Stadhuis
Do
Since The Hague was founded on a former hunting manor, there are a variety of parks and green spaces that are ideal for exploration. Like the majority of cities in the Netherlands, The Hague is extremely bike friendly and it's easy to get from one place to another on a bicycle if you feel like stepping outside the city centre. Scheveningen (and to a lesser extent Kijkduin) is a busy seaside resort filled with boardwalk cafes and close to the dunes. The prime months to get out and see The Hague on foot or by pedal are in the late spring, summer, and early fall months.
- Park Clingendael
- Westbroekpark
- Haagse Bos
- Museon
- Omniversum
- Madurodam
- ADO Den Haag
- Duinrell
- Boat trips The Hague
- Life I Live Festival
- Den Haag Sculptuur
- Crossing Border Festival
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in The Hague
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 Royal Hotel Den Haag Promenade hotel | 178 | 88/100 4,824 reviews |
| 2 | Leonardo Hotel Den Haag Babylon hotel | 143 | 84/100 2,874 reviews |
3 more places to stay, without a published guest score
| Place to stay | Rooms |
|---|---|
| Hotel-Restaurant Scheveningen hotel | |
| The Hague Keizerstraat aparthotel | 21 |
| The Hague Nieuwstraat aparthotel | 23 |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
Which part of The Hague to stay in
Despite its size and international prominence, The Hague has few hotels. Most of them are geared towards business guests, although there is a fair selection across price ranges. As the Randstad is very well connected with frequent train services, trams and buses, you may also consider accommodation in the neighbouring cities of Delft, Leiden, Zoetermeer, Rijswijk or even Rotterdam.
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Where to stay
More hotels in The Hague
3 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hotel Des Indes | 1881 | 0.5 km |
| Hilton The Hague | 0.6 km | |
| PLAZA Premium Den Haag City Center PLAZA Hotelgroup | 0.4 km |
When to go
The best time to visit The Hague
The most comfortable months for a city stay in The Hague are June and July. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; October is the wettest, with about 92 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 The Hague: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM), about 16 km from the city centre in a straight line; Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS, 40 km) and Antwerp International Airport (Deurne) (ANR, 100 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
The Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM) is the closest airport to the city. Metro line E connects Den Haag Centraal station with the Meijersplein, a station close to the airport. The airport terminal is connected with the later one by bus line #33 (which continues further up to the Rotterdam Centraal railway station). The Schiphol Amsterdam Airport (AMS), is a bit farther.
Getting around
The Hague has an efficient and frequent city wide system of light rail (called RandstadRail), trams and buses, running mostly on tracks separated from other traffic, allowing for a fairly speedy ride. HTM runs the public transport system in The Hague and some of the surrounding area. Rotterdam-based RET runs a Randstadrail line (Metro Line E) between The Hague and Rotterdam, through various suburbs, though reaching Rotterdam is often times quicker by taking an Intercity train. Veolia provides regional bus services to the areas surrounding The Hague. EBS operates the suburban bus routes.
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RTM · Rotterdam The Hague Airport
AMS · Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
ANR · Antwerp International Airport (Deurne)
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in The Hague
Eat
Just as Indian restaurants abound in the UK, the Netherlands has an excellent tradition in Indonesian and colonial Dutch-Indies cuisine. After Indonesia became independent from the Netherlands in 1945, the country received a large number of former colonials from Dutch and mixed descent who had been forced to leave the newly independent colony. The Hague received a relatively large number of these people and is still a centre of the Dutch-Indonesian community. The town has dubbed the area around Gedempte Gracht, Gedempte Burgwal and Wagenstraat as its local Chinatown, and added street signs in Chinese and all that.
Stay safe
You should take normal precautions against pickpockets and baggage theft, especially in the main shopping streets, in trams and trains, at stations, and anywhere where tourists congregate. Street begging is common around the Hollands Spoor train station and at the Grote Markt. Most of them are homeless and non-aggressive, just give them some money or simple 'no' will be enough. At night, the city centre is quite safe because of the large number of police cameras monitoring this area. Neighbourhoods southwest of the centre are less affluent and may not be as safe. The area between Zuiderpark and Hollands Spoor has a bad reputation due to the increasing number of street gangs.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in The Hague
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Questions
The Hague: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in The Hague?
By published guest score: Leonardo Royal Hotel Den Haag Promenade (88 / 100 · 4,824 reviews · www.leonardo-hotels.com (operator's own guest score)); Leonardo Hotel Den Haag Babylon (84 / 100 · 2,874 reviews · www.leonardo-hotels.com (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit The Hague?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in The Hague are June and July. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; October is the wettest, with about 92 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to The Hague?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM), about 16 km from the city centre in a straight line; Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS, 40 km) and Antwerp International Airport (Deurne) (ANR, 100 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in The Hague?
euro (EUR).
Nearby
Destinations near The Hague
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.