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Hook of Holland
Village in South Holland, Netherlands

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".

Plan a trip to Hook of Holland→From Amsterdam

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.

Get in

Getting to Hook of Holland

= = Stena Lines runs both daily and daily overnight between Hook of Holland and Harwich in Essex (England). (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.

  1. 01
    Hoek van Holland Haven B
  2. 02
    Hoek van Holland Strand B
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Maeslant Barrier
  2. 02
    Atlantikwall Museum

    A bunker-turned-museum about the strategic importance of Netherlands' Atlantic coast in World War II.

  3. 03
    Kustverlichtingsmuseum
  4. 04
    Fort 1881

    Stationsweg 80 – 82, info@fort1881.nl.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Beach
Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    De Boulevard

    Badweg 8, info@restaurant-deboulevard.nl.

  2. 02
    La Porte Salute

    Paviljoensweg 2, info@laportesalute.nl.

  3. 03
    Unicum Waterweg

    Koningin Emmaboulevard 5,.

  4. 04
    Vispaleis

    Koningin Emmaboulevard 1,.

  5. 05
    Jutter

    Koningin Emmaboulevard 4, info@jutterhvh.nl.

How locals move

Getting around Hook of Holland the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.