Where a car takes you from Amsterdam
These are the day trips from Amsterdam on our own pages where a car earns its keep. Trains reach some of them; a car reaches all of them, on your own clock.
- Haarlem Haarlem is a 15-minute train ride from Amsterdam, a smaller, quieter Dutch food day-trip: Grote Markt on Saturdays, Jopenkerk brewery in the converted
- Zaanse Schans (Windmills) Zaanse Schans is the working Amsterdam day-trip windmill village 20 minutes by train, the mills still grinding cocoa and mustard, cheese and clog
- Utrecht Utrecht is the Amsterdam day-trip Dutch second city, the Oudegracht wharf restaurants set below the canal's level, the Sunday market on Twijnstraat
- Gouda (Cheese Town) Gouda is the Amsterdam day-trip cheese-trade town an hour by intercity, the Thursday morning cheese market on Markt square running April through Augus
- Amstelveen (Aan de Poel) Amstelveen is the Amsterdam south-side day-trip municipality, the destination plate being Aan de Poel, Stefan van Sprang's two-Michelin-star room on D
Booking a car in Amsterdam
We compare through one partner rather than listing every broker. Desks sit at the airport and in town, and the headline rate below is theirs, not ours.
- From
- USD 27.89 a day
- Desks on site
- Alamo, Avis, Budget, Dollar, Enterprise, Europcar, Green Motion, Hertz
- Pick up at
- Amsterdam Schiphol Airport · Amsterdam Central Railway Station · Amsterdam Airport · Amsterdam Centraal (Central) Station · Amsterdam Zuid Station · Amsterdam Centraal, Amsterdam Airport
Rates are the partner's headline price at our last check (2026-10-02) and move with dates, car class and insurance. We earn a commission if you book, at no cost to you.