VAN LIFE in the NETHERLANDS 🇳🇱 - The Good, The Bad & The illegal!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
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In this series, "Van Life in ...", we tackle the aspects of Van Living that would be useful for those thinking of living or traveling in a van or camper with first-hand experience of what it was really like.
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- Fuel Costs
- Access to water
- The cheapest places to buy groceries
- Wild-Camping
- Campsites
- Showers
- Highlights (places of note)
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- Bumcheeks (the not so good stuff)
Welcome to the third episode where we talk about the nitty gritty of Van Life in the Netherlands. Amsterdam is somewhere I actually visit every year, but this time we got to see so much more of what the Netherlands really has to offer!
What was your guys experience of Van Life in the Netherlands?
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Sleeping in a camper in the Netherlands is technically illegal (by ways of a local bylaw called the APV (Algemene Plaatselijke Verordening = General Loacal Ordinance)
There used to be w law which regulates touristic activities outside campgrounds and such but that law has been revoked. What remains to regulate things like sleeping in a camper at
if the parkingspace a random parking lot is the APV which is a municipality level law. So far so good but these laws are very low level in the pecking order of laws in the Netherlands. In fact they are about as low level as they get.
But you can ignore these laws because of two simple to understand things:
1. Since the APV is a low level law it is superseded by just about any piece of legislation which s recognized by the Dutch judicial system. The main thing to know here is that there is a treaty between the Netherlands and the EU called the EVRM (European Treaty for Human Rights) in which is stated that every citizen which is legally in the EU (and Northern Irish are as yet legal in the EU) is allowed to choose ones dwelling place and no government body can restrict this choice unless a handful of things are violated like: being a nuisance, a waste dumper, selling your girlfriend or boyfriend for sex and that kind of thing. Since an international treaty supersedes any national or local law in case they are in conflict, so the treaty goes in this case. 2. A camper van is considered a dwelling (just like a house is) and as such the treaty goes for camper vans as well. To illustrate this: police is not allowed to search the living part of your van without your permission or a search warrant (which they have a hard time getting because the need some kind of proof they will find proof - which is virtually impossible unless you leave suspect items in plain view - always a good idea to close the curtains of the living space if you are driving just for this reason)
So IF you get a ticket for sleeping in your camper van ALWAYS challenge it and you will find the ticket is revoked simply because the local governments (municipalities) realize there is a very large chance they loose the legal battle which creates a precedent which can cause all sorts of other problems for them. So they will dismiss the ticket rather then drag you into court over it. Bottom line you will either sleep sound undisturbed (85%), you will get woken up by police and send on your way (14%) or get woken up by police, get a ticket (1% - which you challenge in court and most likely win using the above argument) and send along...
Long story short: It is illegal to sleep in your camper in the Netherlands but in practice the government is very limited in enforcing that what they think is an actual law (which it isn't)
If the parking space you are at does not have signs specifically banning overnight parking or bans campers you should be fine. If you can use parking lots outside the city limits or even at trail heads in the forests (hard to find though if you are compelled to park near or at places like amsterdam and such)
Park for night in the Netherlands is unreliable mainly in large cities. But any spot which is out of the way like forest trailhead parking spots and parking lots near cemeteries, churches, restaurants and industrial estates are fine. A good alternative too are the lots of supermarkets and of a large automotive shop facility. Many vans, cars and campers even are parked there to be serviced the next day. Also larger camping stores or camper dealerships are good places to park for the night provided you are able to leave early enough...
The prices in every Albert Heijn are the same. You are talking about the Albert Heijn to go, it's only located in train stations. There are quite some Lidl shops, when there is no Lidle, you will find Aldi or Dirk/ Deen, they are cheap too. Albert Heijn is the most expensive supermarket around, even with only euroshopper you pay around €40 more a month each person. Also the free boat is a ferry xD and sleeping in Amsterdam in your car is illegal. Every morning police goes around checking foreign cars and write out fines, so I would recommend staying at the outside of Amsterdam.
Hi! As a real AH lover. There is a difference between AH and AH to GO. The name says it all. But the to go shops pay a lot more for rent and the products are different. Just look for a Normal AH. Or when you are extremely thirsty/hangry then the To GO
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Hey Mel, really useful video guides. Believe it or not i am planning a trip to Hamburg so all these videos are ace. All the best Rob
redpillinmotion aw that’s so awesome!!
When you heading?
Thank you so much 😊
@@PebblesPeach Hey I'm thinking about going the week of the 16th March. Just a week to do the trip so will be lot's of driving. May stop in Bruges, then Lelystad and then Hamburg for two days and then back to Calais. Cheers
👍👍Mel great informative and interesting hands on series , thank you👍👍👌💖
Thank you! 😊
@@PebblesPeachYou are Welcome
Tip: next time you use PT, get enough information about the exact location and use google maps, it'll direct you the stops you have to go to.
I think we tried a few times. But yeh, a little more advance planning probably would help 😅
What is PT?
@@derekbasch9742 public transport
if you ever come back to the netherlands, feel free to send me a message and i can share some gorgeous lesser known spots + tips!
for example, i live on a former island called urk (it's now connected to the mainland) and it's a gorgeous place with 2 beaches(showers on the beach), a harbour, lighthouse and the old part of town still feels very authentic.
there are camper spots by the harbour, but i would also know some spots where you definitely go unnoticed with a regular looking van (+most people here really don't care if you camp out somewhere. i've been sleeping in my van on a parking lot close to the beach).
there are other really nice towns and villages like urk :)
like; volendam, giethoorn, zwolle, groningen, leeuwarden.. and if you go more east(towards apeldoorn or arnhem) the landscape changes beautifully. the province zeeland is also great, especially in summer! as it's by the ocean.
Hi ya, thanks for the info... don’t suppose you could give a bit more detail on over night stops in Dam? Thanks ...also what part of NI are you from? My Da is from Dundalk
If you check in Park 4 Night that’s where we found the spot near Amsterdam! It’s on the docks in a wee industrial estate! I’m from up North near Belfast! 😊
Great video Mel.
Michael Jamison thank you! 😊
We"re just coming back from a camper van tour in Europe. When we arrived in Holland we heard about regulations regarding sleeping in your van. We left the country the same day.
Being from France I find this appauling
Nice! We are actually from Amsterdam, traveling through Europe atm in our van. We are planning to also travel in the Netherlands for a bit. Just because mostly people have seen other countries more than their own ;) Was wondering how you did it with sleeping in the van in wild-places. Did you ever had any problems? Or you have any recommendations?
Nice Vid! I've been wondering if the re is #vanlife Netherlands as I follow a number of noam channels. Now I know why .. it's illegal ..haha . It would be interesting to follow a hard core vanlifer over here
Would love to make it to the Netherlands, might be a backpacking trip though, don’t think I’ll ship the van from Canada.
Eric's Vegan Van it’s such a beautiful place 😊
Definitely worth visiting!!
You better avoid AH like the plague, they are an Waitrose level. Jumbo, Deen, Aldi, Lidl and a host of others.
Utrecht is the best place in the netherlands;) try strijp-s too it is also an amazing place!
I love it so much there! 😊 thanks! Will try and check it out!! 😊
Strijp S is in Eindhoven though...
Where do you park/sleep?? Is it legal to do that everywhere? I heard in the netherlands unfortunately u can't park in/close to nature....
Camp sites in the netherlands WILL rip you off! €25-40 a nigh for a camper place.
Wtf nah its just u getting ripped off g. I pay max €15 and thats with wifi electricity showers places tp do washing up...
Us lot from NI do love a good waffle 🤣😂 👍👍👍
We really do, don’t we! 😂😆
@@PebblesPeach 😂🤣😆 And nothing wrong with that 👍👍👍 Me too likes a good waffle! 😂
Im from the Netherlands and yes public transport here truly sucks, so it is not you! I always feel very sorry for tourists using our public transport, complex and expensive!
Oh, gosh! You have got to be joking! You have transport every day, and it runs on time! Count your blessings.
@@kodomotachi1 Obviously havent read my response and my opinion about our public transport 🙄 I count my blessings when I feel they’re truly blessings thank you 🙄
@@SherStug you said it sucks and you're sorry. Were you being sarcastic and I miss it?
@@kodomotachi1 yeah i dont know what that person is talking about. public transport in the Netherlands is easily in near the top of the list of quality of life things about the country.
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Please... The Netherlands and Holland are not the same thing...
10:30 that is pure BS, hahahaha,. You just went to Rotterdam and Den Haag. Those are pretty big citys... Of course there wont be a lot of nature around there.
Maybe, go more north, the NL is much better there anyway hahahaha
well, i mean... 'yes' there is more nature outside the randstaad cities, but this is still the Netherlands we're talking about. the only countries you'll find less nature in are places like Singapore, simple because it's a city state. the Netherlands has really quite rubbish countryside compared to most other places in the world.
so much talking