Bikes and public transportation

Many modes of public transportation allow you to take your bike along, but some offer only a small window of opportunity. Find out what your options are.

Having a bicycle at your disposal makes you extremely mobile and flexible, even allowing you to travel to faraway places.

Domestic trains

You can take your own bicycle on the train during off-peak hours. To do this you need to purchase a Bicycle Day Travel Card (Dagkaart Fiets) from the ticket machine and take it with you into a specific carriage marked with a small bicycle symbol. The Bicycle Day Travel Card costs € 6 (depending on the destination) and allows you to travel anywhere within the Netherlands.

A Bicycle Day Travel Card allows you to take a (folding) tandem, reclining bicycle or disassembled racing bike on the train. You do not need to purchase a card for a standard folding bicycle as they are free of charge on the train (provided they meet the terms and conditions).

Visit the website of the NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen).

International trains

Would you like to take your bicycle with you on an international train within Europe? It’s possible to take a regular bicycle, mountain bike, track bike, recumbent bicycle or tandem on trains using the train’s special bicycle compartments. If you board the train in the Netherlands, you may take your bicycle with your for a surcharge of € 12.

Visit the website of NS Hispeed.

RandstadRail

Normal bicycles may be taken on the RandstadRail after 19.00 hrs. and during weekends and holidays for free. Passengers may take standard folding bicycles with them anytime free of charge. Tandems, mopeds and bicycles with a trailer are not allowed.

Trams and buses

Only folding bicycles are permitted in The Hague’s trams and buses. You need to use the special baggage compartment available in all the trams and buses. During especially busy times, it may be difficult to find space for a bicycle. In cases of doubt the driver has the power to decide whether you may take your bicycle with you.