Hitchhiking in the Netherlands
Hitchhiking to the Netherlands
Recent reviews in the Netherlands
52.1703, 5.43508
Just enough room for a car to stop but plenty of room to see you from the traffic lights, great way to get onto the A1 highway and get dropped of on a gas station to get rides further east.
―Sami, May 2026
52.1703, 5.43508
Plenty of cars stoping to ask for a ride
―Sami, May 2026
52.25281, 6.43332
Got a ride from someone driving all the way to Kopenhagen after asking around for 15 minutes
―Sami, May 2026
52.23439, 6.21467
Got picked up to go to the next gas station very quickly
―Sami, May 2026
52.33261, 4.9122
2 Guys, got picked up by a fairly sketchy bloke, but all went well.
―willjmaker, May 2026
52.33261, 4.9122
Perfect spot to get a ride to the south/east
I usually park my bike in city near bar, walking 10min to this petrol station and it always nicely works here
―Liza, May 2026
51.50012, 4.74188
Found a Luxemburger! Dropped us in Dinant
―Bob, May 2026
51.60355, 4.84214
Instant ride to Hazeldonk, love to see it
―Bob, May 2026
51.7465, 5.6005
Lots of folks. Got offered a ride pretty quickly to Hasselt, which was halfway to the French Ardennes we were heading to. Still rejected it, gotta stay on that main highway. As always when here, we considered accepting a ride to Eindhoven Airport to luck into a ride to Belgium there. One day we’ll try it!
―Bob, May 2026
51.8243, 5.78484
Weird start of the day, we were offered tons of rides but no one was going straight ahead to Brabant. Roermond, Utrecht, Rijkevoort, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and more. When we got another offer for Holland, I checked if A50 into A2 would make sense for our driver. Turns out, Brabant is only a 4 minute detour from this gas station to Utrecht, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, etc.
―Bob, May 2026
51.50437, 4.34895
Long wait, we’d clearly been on the road for too long though. Once we got refreshed at the restaurant we quickly got a ride to Breda, wouldn’t expect anyone to take you further. Most people here were heading to Dordrecht
―Bob, May 2026
52.33702, 4.85871
awesome spot, lots of traffic, barely any wait time and the guy who took me was super chill and even took a detour to bring me to Utrecht Centrum.
―leberkassemmerl, April 2026
51.98316, 4.39389
But quite, but found a ride to Breda
―johan92, April 2026
51.73122, 5.85162
A bit dangerous but good spot to stand for people entering the highway. Stood here with a sign. First we were at the exit of the kfc and McDonalds but here we got a ride much faster.
―Siemieon, April 2026
51.50417, 6.02167
Horrible spot if you want to go to Germany from here. Almost everyone was going down to Maastricht or something. For that route this spot is quite good.
―Siemieon, April 2026
51.93155, 5.87649
Quite alright but not great. To get a ride down in the Netherlands. Though you're not allowed to ask in front of the gas station because that is prohibited there.
―Siemieon, April 2026
52.01791, 5.92629
Just asked someone
―Anonymous, April 2026
52.34397, 4.84195
Nice bench facing the cars that come into the gas station for fuel
―Anonymous, April 2026
52.02429, 5.88023
It took us longer than we thought, but 22 minutes is still quick. A lot of people drove to the south. No one to Utrecht.
―Ettie, April 2026
51.83259, 4.88299
Nice spot. We got a ride surprisingly fast. We asked around at the pump.
―Ettie, April 2026
Recent reviews mentioning the Netherlands
50.64481, 6.94075
Great spot if you want to go to the Netherlands. Lot of Dutch cars. Because we were with 4 people it took a bit longer but very good to go from.
―Siemieon, April 2026
51.93155, 5.87649
Quite alright but not great. To get a ride down in the Netherlands. Though you're not allowed to ask in front of the gas station because that is prohibited there.
―Siemieon, April 2026
50.09852, 8.63244
We Were hitchhiking to the North on a Sunday morning. Incredibly we found someone after 50 min to Rotterdam all the way to our destination in the Netherlands.
―Beeeq, April 2026
49.63668, 5.97156
I only asked Dutch license plates. Direct ride to the Netherlands.
―johan92, April 2026
50.92902, 6.77441
Wanted to go to Paris, not the best spot for that. Many people go to the Netherlands or Brussels.
―ThomasNCG, April 2026
50.81718, 6.21342
Good spot for Belgium or the Netherlands. Takes a second to find a ride but it makes sense to wait for a longer distance ride that takes you well in the direction you want to take.
―Elvyn, March 2026
50.61559, 4.29964
Direction North: Apart from Brussels many cars go to Antwerp or the Netherlands. Not so much for Gent
―Elvyn, March 2026
52.21783, 7.00854
Half of the cars here are Dutch, so there are many people going to Enschede/Hengelo. If you just ask around you can definitely get a ride to the Netherlands very fast Second person I asked gave me a ride to Enschede.
―S, February 2026
51.01138, 5.33229
There is traffic going to Genk, the Netherlands or Germany. Also some UK plates.
―Anonymous, December 2025
50.92902, 6.77441
May favourite starting spot to get out of the area to the Netherlands/Belgium/France. So far has worked out for me fairly quickly every single time.
This review is super late, but I was there in May in the afternoon and found folks going my direction in half an hour by asking around. It only took half an hour because they wanted to finish their meal (which, totally fair.) I think the finding itself only took about 10 minutes.
―thebeekeeper, October 2025
50.05548, 8.9097
Wildcamped at: 50.055, 8.9237 Just a 15 min walk.
Got a ride to the Netherlands.
―Chris9012, September 2025
53.48266, 10.02408
Got a ride with a truck all the way to the Netherlands, while trying to hitch with a sign, close to the entry to the highway. Male/summer
―Anonymous, August 2025
53.05571, 8.5021
Last petrol station on the highway before entering the Netherlands. Don't get stuck here at night as there is nobody! I went to sleep in the Hasbruch Tower which is in a nature reserve about a 30 minutes hike northwest. Next morning it took me two hours to head towards Leer
―Sander, August 2025
50.52966, 3.04639
Lots of cars going back to the Netherlands. Most had kids on the backseat, but after 25 mins we found someone to take us to the Dutch border.
―Anoniem, August 2025
51.20945, 3.25392
Lots of space to pull over, but traffic seemed local. I was trying to get onto the E34 to the Netherlands via Antwerp(ambitious, I know) and was offered a ride that took me further down the N9.
You might be better off taking the E40 to Ghent/Antwerp if you wanna go to the Netherlands, but I didn't try that other option. Disregarding that though, it's decent.
―SebUltimate, August 2025
54.60732, 11.28489
I went on the ferry thanks to a car coming from Maribo. Then on the ferry I was looking for people going directly to Hamburg. After 10 people, I found 2 dutch brothers coming from Norway and going to the Netherlands. They dropped me at Moorfleet Ikea Hamburg. I was alone and with a small bag.
―Nina, July 2025
48.21417, 4.24062
got stuck there mid trip as the night fell, the station employee was really nice, let us sleep in our bags inside and gave us tea, we found a ride eventually in the middle of the night, the rode through belgium without stopping and left us just after the Netherlands border
―milo, July 2025
51.32581, 6.89137
Very busy gas station. Asked around and then an Indian family took me straight to the Netherlands. They were driving to Almere, but they dropped me off in Wageningen in front of my dorm.
―anettlee17, May 2025
50.83315, 6.45929
If coming from direction Buir, take the train to Duren :) Here it is good to go west in direction of the Netherlands
―Wazka, April 2025
50.95536, 5.69451
Great spot, many many cars there, going in both direction (Belgium or the Netherlands). Asked the cars and people were very open to me (even tho it was 11 pm)
―Swagg, March 2025