Keukenhof opens for one spring season only, and mid-April weekends sell out. Book your timed entry here, with the return bus from Amsterdam or Schiphol if you need it, or add a bike tour through the tulip fields. Mobile ticket, instant confirmation, free cancellation depending on the option.
Keukenhof is a 32-hectare garden in Lisse, between Amsterdam and Leiden, where the Dutch bulb growers show their best varieties: 7 million tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and crocuses planted by hand every autumn and flowering for eight weeks in spring. The 2026 season runs from 19 March to 10 May. Outside those dates the gates are closed and the park does not exist for visitors.
Entry is by timed ticket. The official adult price is €21.50 online (around €25 at the gate), children 4–17 pay about €9, and parking is sold separately. On sunny weekends in mid-April, at Easter and during the Flower Parade weekend the slots run out days ahead; Tuesday to Thursday in late March or early May is quiet by comparison, with the hyacinths and daffodils at their best early and the late tulips at the end.
Getting there is the other question: Lisse has no railway station. The Keukenhof Express buses from Schiphol (858) and Amsterdam RAI (852) are the standard route, and the combined entry + bus ticket is the simplest thing to book. This site sells it, with the plain entry ticket, the windmill cruise and the day trips, and the bike or self-drive tours that take you into the tulip fields themselves — which the park ticket does not include, since the fields around Lisse are working farms.
Seven things to know before the tulips.
Open every day, 8:00 to 19:30
Last entry 18:00
Timed tickets, 30-minute entry windows
Weekend slots sold out 1 to 3 weeks ahead
Book as soon as your dates are fixed
Arrive before 10:00 or after 15:30
The park is closed outside the spring season
No visits, no ticket sales
Autumn: the bulbs are planted for the next year
The name means « kitchen garden »: in the 15th century these woods supplied herbs and game to the kitchens of Jacoba van Beieren's castle at Teylingen. The landscape park was laid out in 1857 by Jan David Zocher, architect of Amsterdam's Vondelpark, and in 1949 a group of bulb growers and exporters had the idea of using it as an open-air showcase for their varieties. The first spring opening drew 236,000 visitors; today it is 1.4 million in eight weeks, from more than 100 countries.
Every autumn, 40 gardeners plant 7 million bulbs by hand, in layers so that something flowers from the first day to the last. Each year has a theme, a new show garden and a Flower Parade through the bulb region. Inside the park, the Willem-Alexander pavilion holds the tulip show, the Beatrix pavilion the orchids, the Oranje Nassau pavilion changing flower arrangements; the 1892 windmill at the edge of the garden overlooks the fields.
Keukenhof is a foundation: ticket revenue funds the park, which receives no public subsidy, and the growers who plant it pay for the privilege of showing their bulbs to buyers from around the world.
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Stationsweg 166A, 2161 AM Lisse, Netherlands
Ticket scanned at the main entrance
35 km south-west of Amsterdam, 15 km north of Leiden
Bus 858 from Schiphol Airport, about 35 minutes
Bus 852 from Amsterdam RAI station, about 45 minutes
Bus 854 from Leiden Centraal, 20 minutes; combi tickets include the bus
Train to Schiphol (15 min) or metro 52 to RAI, then the Keukenhof Express
Allow 1 hour door to door
Tiqets bus transfers depart from Amsterdam Centraal and A'DAM Tower
A4 or A44, exit Lisse; signposted « Keukenhof »
Parking must be booked online with your ticket (about €9–10)
From Amsterdam 40 minutes; from Rotterdam 50 minutes
From 19 March to 10 May 2026, every day from 8:00 to 19:30, last entry at 18:00. The park is closed the rest of the year.
Mid-April is the peak for tulips, in the garden and in the fields around Lisse. Late March is best for hyacinths and daffodils, early May for late tulips and fewer visitors. Weather shifts the peak by a week or two each year.
The official price is €21.50 for adults online (around €25 at the gate), about €9 for children aged 4–17, free under 4. Entry + return bus from Amsterdam or Schiphol costs about €36; parking is about €9–10 extra.
Yes. Tickets are timed and weekends in April sell out one to three weeks ahead. Weekdays in late March and early May are easier, but still book before you travel.
The easiest way is the combined entry + bus ticket (from Amsterdam Centraal, A'DAM Tower or Schiphol). By public transport, take the train to Schiphol or the metro to RAI, then the Keukenhof Express bus 858 or 852. By car, 40 minutes on the A4.
No. Keukenhof is a show garden; the striped fields are working farms around Lisse. See them on a bike tour, by rental bike from the entrance, by car, or from the windmill cruise inside the park.
Three to four hours for the garden and the pavilions; a full day if you add the fields by bike or a cruise. Once inside, you can stay until closing.
Yes. Paths are flat and wide, there is a playground, a maze and a petting farm, and pushchairs and wheelchairs move easily. Manual wheelchairs can be reserved in advance. Children under 4 are free.
Dogs on a lead are welcome in the garden but not in the pavilions or restaurants. Picnics are allowed on the lawns. Drones are prohibited.
The park stays open. The four pavilions are heated and full of flowers, and showers in Dutch spring rarely last long. Bring a waterproof layer rather than an umbrella, which the wind will turn inside out.
The Bloemencorso Bollenstreek is a 40 km procession of flower floats from Noordwijk to Haarlem, passing Keukenhof, on a Saturday in late April. It is spectacular and the busiest day of the season: book tickets well ahead if you want to combine the two.
Official tickets are tied to a date and slot and generally non-refundable. Tickets booked through Tiqets show their own policy on the product page: most entry and bus tickets allow free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
