Where a car takes you from Rotterdam
These are the day trips from Rotterdam 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.
- Gouda: Cheese Capital Day Trip Gouda is 25 minutes by direct train from Rotterdam Centraal
- Schiedam: Jenever Distillery Town Schiedam, 12 minutes from Rotterdam, is the world capital of jenever with five surviving windmill distilleries, a dedicated jenever museum
- Delft: Historic Dutch Food Town Delft is 12 minutes from Rotterdam by intercity train with canal-side cafes, local craft beer, and artisan food shops in a UNESCO-quality historic cen
- Dordrecht: Oldest Dutch City Food Trail Dordrecht, the oldest city in Holland, is 20 minutes from Rotterdam and offers smoked Biesbosch eel, canal-side cafes on Wijnstraat
- Kinderdijk: Windmill Landscape with Regional Food Kinderdijk's 19 UNESCO windmills are 30 minutes from Rotterdam by waterbus, surrounded by the dairy-farming polder landscape that produces Gouda and f
- The Hague: Indonesian Rijsttafel Capital The Hague is 20 minutes from Rotterdam and has the Netherlands' best Indonesian rijsttafel tradition, with deep restaurant variety rooted in the large
Booking a car in Rotterdam
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 25.8 a day
- Desks on site
- Alamo, Dollar, Enterprise, Europcar, Green Motion, Hertz, Keddy, National
- Pick up at
- Rotterdam Downtown, Rotterdam Central Railway Station · Rotterdam Airport · Rotterdam Central Railway Station
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.