Leeuwarden,
across the Afsluitdijk.
The capital of Friesland — Ljouwert in Frisian, and the city the Elfstedentocht starts and finishes in. Schiphol is about an hour and forty minutes away across the Afsluitdijk, which is exactly the kind of distance a chauffeur is for: door to door, bags carried, and a rear seat you can work or sleep in the whole way.
Leeuwarden, without the parking, the meter or the wait.
Leeuwarden sits at the top of the A31, which runs west past Harlingen to Zurich, the village where the Afsluitdijk begins. From there the A7 crosses thirty kilometres of open water to Den Oever and carries on through North Holland to the Amsterdam ring and the A4 — about 97 minutes to Schiphol in total when the dike is clear. The alternative runs south on the A32 through Heerenveen to Zwolle and then down the A28, and your chauffeur chooses between them on the morning itself, based on the traffic reports and the wind over the water.
The city is small for a provincial capital and busier than its size suggests. The Provinciehuis on the Tweebaksmarkt and the courts bring one kind of visitor, MCL — Medisch Centrum Leeuwarden, the regional teaching hospital on the western edge — brings another, and the WaterCampus, the Dairy Campus and Campus Fryslân bring researchers and delegations from well beyond the province. Add the WTC Expo on the Heliconweg, the Fries Museum on the Wilhelminaplein and the Blokhuispoort, the old prison that is now a cultural quarter, and you have a diary of arrivals that rarely matches a train timetable.
From the front seat, Leeuwarden is a compact centre ringed by canals and crossed by one-way streets, with the Oldehove — the enormous unfinished church tower that leans over its own green — as the landmark everybody navigates by. Cars are unwelcome on the Nieuwestad and around the Waagplein, so the craft is in the edges: the quays where a car may briefly stand, the hotel entrances that face a side street, the drop-off at the station on the Stationsweg. Road signs from here on are bilingual, Dutch and Frisian, and our chauffeurs know which name belongs to which village.
Leeuwarden to Schiphol and back at one fixed price — flight tracked, chauffeur in arrivals with a name sign, sixty minutes of free waiting.
A car and chauffeur that stay with you in Leeuwarden: meetings, dinners and days that refuse to keep a schedule, from €65 per hour.
Point-to-point chauffeured car service in and around Leeuwarden — booked online, quoted upfront, driven in a black Mercedes.
First-class sedans and the Mercedes-Maybach for the occasions in Leeuwarden that ask for more than a taxi.
Leeuwarden to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels or Düsseldorf in one seat — one fixed quote, door to door, stops on request.
The Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, by arrangement, for the days when first class is not the brief.
From Leeuwarden to Schiphol by motorway — your chauffeur plans the departure around traffic on the day.
About 97 minutes on a clear run. For departures we suggest booking at least three hours before your flight.
Leeuwarden to Schiphol in Business Class, one fixed all-in price. Van Class €666, First Class €1019.
Prices are fixed when you book and include taxes and normal waiting. Hourly hire in Leeuwarden starts at €65 per hour (minimum 2 hours, 40 km per hour included).
The canal that runs through the middle of the shopping street, the hotels behind it and the restaurants of the Ruiterskwartier — approached by the quays, finished on foot.
The leaning tower on its green and the old princes’ garden along the water — the corner of Leeuwarden every visitor asks to be photographed in.
The wide square locals still call the Zaailand, with the provincial museum on one side and the Blokhuispoort a few streets away.
The arrival point for guests who come by rail and our usual pickup for onward drives to Groningen, the ferries or the lakes.
The teaching hospital and the clinics around it, where patients, relatives and visiting doctors want the right entrance rather than the nearest car park.
The business parks strung along the N31 bypass, from water technology to dairy, each a few minutes from the motorway and a long walk from anything else.
The everyday workhorse: sedans for one to three passengers.
Room for groups, families and luggage, with up to seven seats.
Flagship saloons for executives and VIP arrivals.
The pinnacle: Mercedes-Maybach, by request only.
Leeuwarden to Schiphol and back at one fixed price — flight tracked, chauffeur in arrivals with a name sign, sixty minutes of free waiting.
A car and chauffeur that stay with you in Leeuwarden: meetings, dinners and days that refuse to keep a schedule, from €65 per hour.
Point-to-point chauffeured car service in and around Leeuwarden — booked online, quoted upfront, driven in a black Mercedes.
First-class sedans and the Mercedes-Maybach for the occasions in Leeuwarden that ask for more than a taxi.
Private chauffeur, airport transfers and hourly hire in Groningen, Groningen.
Private chauffeur, airport transfers and hourly hire in Zwolle, Overijssel.
About 97 minutes for the 150 kilometres on a clear run. The usual route is the A31 to the Afsluitdijk and then the A7 south, with the A32 through Heerenveen and Zwolle as the alternative. Your chauffeur picks one on the day and sets the pickup time so that the peak around Amsterdam does not cost you the flight.
For one traveller with one bag the train is perfectly good. For two or more people, a delegation, an early departure or a return with suitcases, the arithmetic changes: the price is per car rather than per seat — €513 in Business Class, €666 for up to seven in Van Class — and the journey begins and ends at a door instead of a platform.
Leeuwarden to Schiphol is a fixed €513 in Business Class, €666 in Van Class and €1019 in First Class, per car and taxes included, identical in both directions. Hourly hire inside the city starts at €65 per hour, minimum two hours, with 40 kilometres included per hour.
Yes, and it is one of our regular Frisian runs. Harlingen, for Terschelling and Vlieland, is a short drive west along the A31; Holwerd, for Ameland, is about the same to the north. We drop at the terminal itself with the luggage and can be waiting there again when you sail back.
The whole province. Sneek and the lakes, Dokkum and the northern villages, Heerenveen, Franeker and Bolsward are all inside an hour of the city, and any combination of them is quoted as one fixed amount with the stops written into the price before you confirm.