Hook of Holland
Hook of Holland is a coastal village in the southwestern corner of Holland, hence the name; hoek means "corner" and was in use before the word kaap – "cape".
Hook of Holland is a coastal village in the southwestern corner of Holland, hence the name; hoek means "corner" and was in use before the word kaap – "cape". The English translation using Hook is a false friend of the Dutch Hoek, but has become commonplace in the Netherlands. It is located at the mouth of the New Waterway shipping canal into the North Sea. The village is administered as a district of the municipality of Rotterdam. Its district covers an area of 18.53 km2, of which 14.19 km2 is land. On 1 January 2023 it had an estimated population of 10,560.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Maeslant Barrier
- 02Atlantikwall Museum
A bunker-turned-museum about the strategic importance of Netherlands' Atlantic coast in World War II.
- 03Kustverlichtingsmuseum
- 04Fort 1881
Stationsweg 80 – 82, info@fort1881.nl.
From Wikivoyage: Hook of Holland, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Beach
From Wikivoyage: Hook of Holland, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01De Boulevard
Badweg 8, info@restaurant-deboulevard.nl.
- 02La Porte Salute
Paviljoensweg 2, info@laportesalute.nl.
- 03Unicum Waterweg
Koningin Emmaboulevard 5,.
- 04Vispaleis
Koningin Emmaboulevard 1,.
- 05Jutter
Koningin Emmaboulevard 4, info@jutterhvh.nl.
From Wikivoyage: Hook of Holland, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Hook of Holland
- Airports
- Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 21 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 57 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 104 km
- Stations
- Hoek van Holland Haven, 600 m · Hoek van Holland Strand metro station, 1.7 km · Maasvlakte Heliport, 3.6 km
- Amsterdam → Hook of Holland68 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · €8–11
- Eindhoven → Hook of Holland110 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · €14–20
- Maastricht → Hook of Holland166 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · €23–32
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Hook of Holland
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 Hook of Holland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in(8 hr; €48 one-way foot passenger not including bunk or cabin.) P&O Ferries runs daily overnight from Hull (England) to the Maasvlakte part of the Port of Rotterdam.
- Get in(10 hr; €88+ one-way foot passenger not including bunk or cabin.) Then, a local ferry operated by RET links Hook of Holland with Maasvlakte, where the ferry from Hull arrives.
From Wikivoyage: Rotterdam/Hook of Holland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Hook of Holland
Hook of Holland is 16 km from The Hague, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.