Travel & Hotels in Zutphen Holland [September 2014]
The venue in Zutphen is ‘Therapiestudio Meijers’. It’s 10-12 minutes walking distance from the train station, as well as five minutes from the old city center. Address: Groenesteeg 1, 7201 BH Zutphen http://www.therapiestudiomeijers.nl [in Dutch]
Hotels and B&B’s in the area Zutphen is a small town [approx. 45.000 inh.] and reasonably quiet. It is busy in the tourist season, the summer, and some weekends in spring and autumn.
Hotels: http://www.hotels.nl/nl/zutphen/ The first option, the Hampshire Hotel is walking distance. The other, Hotel Inntel is really only an option when you have a car.
B&B’s: http://www.bed-en-breakfast.nl/kaart/Gelderland/Zutphen You can use the integrated google maps on the website, to check out the distance between your choice of B&B and the venue. The ones at walking distance, located in the old city center are: B&B aan de Berkel, B&B Broijl, B&B Die Schuyt, B&B Gastenverblijf Hut 16, B&B Mevrouw Kern, B&B Miene, B&B Barlheze, B&B Gastenverblijf Kolenstraat 4A, B&B Lerinckhuis, B&B Logement Het Achterhuis, B&B MS Astria. Note that we have no data on the quality of any of these.
Camping: please simply google “Zutphen campings” to find a list of these. To travel from the venue to the campsite you need a car. For the few that might consider using a campervan, there are several places where these are allowed to park and stay. The ones at the IJsselkade are right by the venue.
Travel Coming from abroad and flying in, the usual route will take you into Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol. General information on the airport can be found at http://www.schiphol.com/. From there you take the train heading east, direction Enschede or Amersfoort. It’s all in all about an hour and a half to get to Zutphen. If you’re in the train that ends in Amersfoort, change for Apeldoorn. Change trains again at Apeldoorn, towards Zutphen. To plan your journey: excellent and often necessary travel information is available on http://www.ns.nl/en/travellers/home [in English]
By car: Zutphen is located in the east of Holland, an hour east of Utrecht, and half an hour’s drive north of Arnhem. There’s is, except on Sundays no free parking in the old city center of Zutphen. Outside of the old center it’s free parking. On class days, you are allowed to park at no charge in the venue’s parking lot. There’s also free parking on the north side of the train station, in the industrial zone.
Parking On the map below the options for free as well as for paid parking are indicated in orange. Free parking is in the area on the other side of the river. Paid parking is in front of the big supermarket Albert Heijn.
Eating out and shopping The venue is at walking distance from the old city center, as well as just a stone’s throw away from a nice little river to stroll by and sit and relax during breaks. For lunch and dinner there are plenty of places to eat or to just have a drink. The red colored area is the old town area of Zutphen, with the shops. The streets in green below are where there’s places to eat. All of these are at walking distance from the venue. The big block in yellow on the map is the biggest supermarket in town, the Albert Heijn.
The same map for eating out and shopping, but bigger: