Regular readers will no doubt be familiar with our yearly trips to the holiday and amusement park Duinrell in the town of Wassenaar. In 2025, instead of staying at an additional location in the Netherlands as we had done for a number of years, we’d arranged to spend the full two weeks at Duinrell.
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After having a really enjoyable time on our first family trip to Center Parcs at Sherwood Forest in November 2024, we decided to give another Center Parcs a go for our Easter trip in April 2025.
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With a big birthday to celebrate, in November 2024 we arranged to spend a long weekend at Center Parcs Sherwood Forest, arriving Friday evening. Center Parcs is somewhere we’ve wanted to go for some time, but with the high prices, we’d wondered whether it was worth it.
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With a little free time on the final full day of our Netherlands 24 trip, I headed out on a ride to Voorburg, taking a route through Haagse Bos, stopping briefly at the Royal Palace ‘Huis ten Bosch’.
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Among the regular places we visit while we’re at Duinrell is the fantastic miniature park Madurodam. It’s somewhere we’ve been going since our first stay at Duinrell in 2012, with good reason, as there’s so much to see and do there.
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With some time to spare for a ride, I decided to head out to somewhere I’d been before, the Burgemeester Waaijerbrug bridge. This distinctive structure is somewhere I’d ridden to back in 2018, as part of a ride to Zoetermeer, after reading all about it on Bicycle Dutch.
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Being just a short 15 minute ride from Duinrell, the beach at Wassenaarse Slag is a must-visit for anyone staying at the holiday park. Certainly, when we’re there, we make sure we save any sunny days for a trip to the beach.
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No trip to Duinrell would be complete without a visit to the nearby city of Leiden, I’m pretty sure we’ve been here on every visit. I’ve written previously about our trips to Leiden in 2015, 2017 and 2022, but there’s always something different to see each time we come, so there’s always room for another!
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On our first full day at Duinrell and while everyone was getting ready, I set out on a quick morning ride around Wassenaar. This is a familiar route that I’ve ridden previously and covered some of it in 2022, when construction of the A44 RijnlandRoute was in progress.
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After a week in Amersfoort, we made our way west to Wassenaar to Duinrell for the second week of our 2024 trip. For anyone who doesn’t know, Duinrell is an amusement and holiday park, located about 10 km outside Den Haag.
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