Amsterdam to Hasselt,
straight down the A2.
One motorway does almost the whole job. Past Utrecht, past 's-Hertogenbosch, past Eindhoven, over the border and west on the E314 — and the capital of Belgian Limburg is reached in about the time a delayed train would still be leaving the Randstad.
A small capital with its business spread across a province.
Hasselt is the administrative centre of Belgian Limburg, a compact town of shopping streets, a Grote Markt and a green ring where the old walls used to be. What makes it a driving destination is the province around it. Genk sits twenty minutes east, with C-mine in a former colliery and the industrial estates that grew up around the old Ford assembly plant. Bokrijk and its open-air museum lie between the two. Business here is a set of addresses on a map, not a row of buildings you can walk between.
The route is the simplest on our Belgian list: 200 kilometres, effectively one motorway south and one turn west, about 125 minutes of driving. There is no city ring to negotiate on the way, which is why this trip keeps to its estimate more reliably than any other run into Belgium.
Amsterdam to Hasselt on the A2 and the E314 — the shortest of our Belgian city runs.
Around 125 minutes at the wheel, with the Utrecht and Eindhoven stretches the only places worth timing carefully.
One fixed figure for the car, set at booking: chauffeur, fuel, tolls, taxes and the kilometres in between.
A day return to Hasselt is a sensible booking rather than an ambitious one. Two hours down, a working day in Limburg, two hours back — quoted as one amount with the waiting included.
Four classes, one drive, four fixed amounts. Every one of them is per car and includes everything the road costs.
Corporate accounts are invoiced monthly rather than paid at the kerb, which suits teams making this drive regularly. See the Business Class page for the cars that do most of this work.
The estates around Genk and the corridors along the E313 and E314 are a morning from Amsterdam by car and an ordeal by any other means.
The Jenevermuseum sits in the old distillery quarter, and a tasting is a great deal more relaxed when the drive home belongs to somebody else.
The Modemuseum, the Z33 art house and the Japanese garden on the edge of town make a full day in a town small enough to cross on foot.
The open-air museum is easy to reach and hard to leave on time. The car waits in the car park and nobody has to watch the last bus.
All the Belgian routes we run from an Amsterdam address.
The longer cross-border drives and how they are quoted.
The Dutch side of the same corridor, half an hour short of the border.
West along the E314 for the university, imec and the Oude Markt.
About 125 minutes of driving over 200 kilometres, so roughly two hours door to door outside the peaks. The A2 around Utrecht and the Eindhoven stretch are the two places that can add time; your chauffeur builds that into the departure rather than into your arrival.
That is what most business bookings look like here. The two are twenty minutes apart, so a morning in one and an afternoon in the other travels as a single arrangement, with the car and chauffeur staying with you in between and the waiting time inside the fixed price.
For two or three people travelling together it usually compares well, because the quote is for the car and not for each seat. Business Class starts at €684 one-way for up to three passengers, and a Van Class carries seven for one amount.
Yes. Limburg does not stop at the border in either direction, and onward legs to Maastricht, Aachen or Liège are added to the same quote. Tell dispatch the order of the addresses and you get one price for the whole day.
We collect you in the arrivals hall with a name sign, track the flight from booking so a delay changes nothing, and give you sixty minutes of free waiting after landing. From the terminal the A2 begins almost immediately, which makes Schiphol a slightly shorter start than central Amsterdam.
Yes. The EQE, the EQV, the EQS and the BMW i5 and i7 all cover this distance comfortably, and where a charge stop is needed the chauffeur plans it around a break rather than adding one. Ask for an electric car when you book and dispatch confirms it.