Boat Travel

Hire your own boat or take a guided city canal tour of Amsterdam, Leiden, or Delft. Alternatively, take a harbor tour to check out Rotterdam's extensive Europoort, Europe's biggest harbor, and the flood barrier. There are pedestrian ferries behind Amsterdam's Centraal Station across the IJ.

To/From the United Kingdom and Holland

International ferries link Holland and the United Kingdom. The Stena line makes two daily crossings from the Hoek van Holland (Corner of Holland, an industrial shipping area west of Rotterdam) to Harwich, on the car ferry. The trip takes approximately seven hours, eight hours overnight. There is one P&O Ferries overnight crossing between the Europoort in Rotterdam and Hull, which takes about 11 hours, and one DFDS Seaways overnight crossing from Newcastle to IJmuiden (in Amsterdam), which takes 15 hours.

To/From the United Kingdom and Holland

DFDS Seaways. Sluisplein 33, IJmuiden, North Holland, 1975 AG. 0255/546–666; 0871/522–9955; www.dfdsseaways.com.

P&O Ferries. Channel House, Channel View Rd., Dover, Kent, CT17 9TJ. 010/7145–464; 028/085–020; 1304/448–888; www.poferries.com.

Stena Line. Hoek van Holland Terminal, Stationsweg 10, Hoek van Holland, South Holland, 3151 HS. 0344/770–7070; 0174/315–811; www.stenaline.nl.