Rotterdam
Modern architecture and the world's busiest port
Take flights to Rotterdam for modern harbour cruises, cutting-edge design shops and harbour-side seafood restaurants.
Things to do
Hulking container ships and vast oil tankers tower over visitors who cruise one of the world’s largest harbours after flights to Rotterdam. After you travel Rotterdam’s modern docks, walk to the Maritime Museum with centuries of Dutch sailing on display.
Shopping
Remember cutting-edge Dutch design after your Rotterdam city break, and fill your shopping bags with asymmetrical teapots or trendy table linens. Stylish housewares shops sit beside edgy fashion boutiques all along cool Witte de Withstraat.
Restaurants
Old Rotterdam comes to life at Henkes’ Brasserie, a harbour-side restaurant within a former Dutch gin distillery. Relax over delicate, freshly-caught fish and seafood dishes surrounded by warm, polished wood and gleaming brass chandeliers.
Nightlife
A young, hip crowd sips glasses of the Dutch gin genever and bitter beer at dance clubs around Rotterdam’s Hofplein. The action really gets going after midnight, when live bands and DJs turn up the volume in this Dutch harbour town.
When to go
KLM has frequent flights to Rotterdam. Visit in early April, when the harbour is crowded with the canvas sails of tall ships en route to Amsterdam at the annual Race of the Classics.
Upcoming events
- Art Rotterdam9 - 12 Feb 2012 (annual)
- Race of the ClassicsApr 2012 (annual)
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