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Benthuizen

Benthuizen is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland.

Benthuizen
Benthuizen · Michielverbeek
The place

Benthuizen is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn and lies about 1 km east of Zoetermeer.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Benthuizen

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    PWA Silverdome

    Zoetermeer Panthers are a professional ice hockey team, playing most seasons in the Eredivisie, the Dutch professional, top-level hockey league. They play in the Silverdome, an ice sports facility in Zoetermeer, Netherlands.

    4 km · arena · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Benthuizen

Airports
Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 16 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 29 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 90 km
  • Eindhoven → Benthuizen
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · €13–18
  • Maastricht → Benthuizen
    158 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · €22–31
  • Groningen → Benthuizen
    186 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · €23–32
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Benthuizen

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Benthuizen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inComing from any other city in The Netherlands there are frequent intercity-services to The Hague and Rotterdam (many times direct or with one fast exchange), see for more information the general planner for all kinds of public transport in the Netherlands 9292 Coming from the UK the area is also reachable by several ferry-lines.
  • Get inDirect connections right to the MRDH are: P&O Ferries - line Kingston upon Hull - Rotterdam Europoort Stena Line - Harwich - Hook of Holland.
  • Get aroundSee: about connections in Rotterdam city: about the Fast Ferry from Hook of Holland to Maasvlakte: [https://www.ret.nl/home/reizen/dienstregeling/informatie-fast-ferry/fast-ferry-page.html RET (Rotterdam public transport) or Tourist information Hook of Holland

From Wikivoyage: Rotterdam-The Hague Metropolitan Region, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    136 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    435 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    644 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    690 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    713 km

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Around it

Next door to Benthuizen

Benthuizen is 17 km from The Hague, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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