Monster
A monster is a type of imaginary or fictional creature found in literature, folklore, mythology, horror, fantasy, fiction and religion.
A monster is a type of imaginary or fictional creature found in literature, folklore, mythology, horror, fantasy, fiction and religion. They are very often depicted as dangerous and aggressive; with a strange or grotesque appearance that causes terror and fear, often in humans. Monsters usually resemble bizarre, deformed, otherworldly and mutated animals or entirely unique creatures of varying sizes, but may also take a human form; such as mutants, ghosts, spirits, vampires or zombies, among all other things. They may or may not have supernatural powers; but they are usually capable of killing or causing some form of destruction, threatening the social or moral order of the human world; in the process.
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Worth seeing in and around Monster
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.
- 01Polanen Castle
Polanen Castle was a castle located in today's Monster, South Holland in the Netherlands. The ancestral home of the Polanen family, it suffered a siege in 1351 and was demolished in 1394.
1.5 km · castle in the Netherlands · 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.
Getting to Monster
- Airports
- Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 20 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 51 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 104 km
- Amsterdam → Monster62 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · €7–10
- Eindhoven → Monster111 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · €14–20
- Maastricht → Monster168 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · €23–32
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Monster
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 Monster. 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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If you know how people move in Monster – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Monster
Monster is 10 km from The Hague, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Westlandmunicipality in the Netherlands2.9 km
- Ter Heijdefarm village in the Netherlands700 m
- Poeldijkfarm village in the Netherlands3.2 km
- Rolpaalhamlet in South Holland, Netherlands3.2 km