We not too long ago had the chance to find and expertise one of the vital stunning vacation parks within the Netherlands. Though we do not normally go to vacation parks, we did not wish to miss this chance. In actual fact, among the most superb locations to go to in The Netherlands are within the speedy neighborhood of the park which made us additional enthusiastic.
This weblog was written by journey author and Traveltomtom crew member Ashley. She was invited to go to and discover Hof van Saksen on behalf of Traveltomtom, and wrote this weblog about her keep and experiences.
About Hof van Saksen
Hof van Saksen is a vacation resort positioned within the province of Drenthe within the Netherlands. On the resort you can see Saxon farm homes and vacation houses. This provides the resort a particular environment and look and in addition suits in completely with the environment.
Hof van Saksen is a part of Landal Greenparks, which has vacation parks all through Europe. Landal distinguishes itself from different suppliers by the open character of the parks. Peace, area and nature are an important traits that include that.
The parks of Landal Greenparks are identified for being luxurious vacation parks.
Hof van Saksen is an opulent and large-scale vacation park surrounded by stunning Drenthe countryside and nature. It is a wonderful vacation spot for strolling, biking and nature lovers.
The park itself presents loads of area and services for rest. There’s a giant lake in the course of the park. Numerous lodging have a view or a direct location on this lake. It invitations you to stroll round it throughout your keep. We are going to talk about the services intimately later within the weblog.
The park is continually working to supply its guests with an unforgettable keep. Hospitality and private consideration for his or her friends are core values inside the group.
As well as, sustainability and innovation are additionally necessary themes for Hof van Saksen. In actual fact, Hof van Saksen was named probably the most revolutionary Vacation Park within the Benelux in October 2024. Particularly, the fixed improvements, steady consideration to job satisfaction and the most recent investments behind the scenes make Hof van Saksen a deserved winner, in line with the jury.
Farmhouse
The beauty of Hof van Saksen is that their lodging are all within the model of the encompassing Drenthe villages. So not the usual vacation park homes, however all superb farmhouses. It makes it a really particular expertise, you do not even have the thought that you’re at a vacation park.
They’ve a variety of lodging, from 1-4 individuals to even lodging for teams of greater than 20 individuals.
We received a 6-person farmhouse, the 6L to be particular. These kinds of houses have not too long ago been utterly renovated and it confirmed. From the skin it seems like a farmhouse, however while you step inside, you actually step into luxurious.
The lodging is unfold over two flooring.
Downstairs you can see the big front room with fire and the kitchen with all needed home equipment. You even have a backyard or out of doors area on the rear. It’s utterly surrounded by timber, so it’s utterly non-public.
Additionally, you will discover 1 of the three bedrooms on the bottom ground. The downstairs bed room has an ensuite rest room.
Upstairs you can see 2 extra bedrooms and a second rest room. This massive rest room additionally has a sauna and a separate tub tub.
The farmhouses actually provide the whole lot you could possibly want for. An ideal base for an exquisite stick with household or buddies.
Procuring
Who would assume that you are able to do in depth buying at a vacation park? Not me anyway. However you do not have to go away Hof van Saksen to take pleasure in buying and return house with good souvenirs.
Within the centrally positioned most important constructing of the resort, known as Havezate, yow will discover a big store. Right here yow will discover the whole lot. Souvenirs, clothes, toys, but additionally objects for swimming, in case you’ve got forgotten them.
Grocery store
Should you stroll down the lengthy avenue from the primary constructing Havezate you’ll arrive on the Noordermarkt. That is the Hof van Saksen grocery store. You’ll find the whole lot a daily grocery store has to supply right here. Contemporary fruit and greens, contemporary pastries, a bakery, a takeaway and all of the components you want for breakfast, lunch and dinner throughout your keep.
There is no such thing as a want to go away the resort, simply take a stroll to the Noordermarkt for contemporary groceries.
Actions
Many vacation parks are geared toward households and kids, and Hof van Saksen is not any completely different. In actual fact, kids are an important friends at Hof van Saksen. Every little thing in and across the park is made for youngsters. Hof van Saksen actually goes an additional mile with regards to leisure for youngsters and households. A whole overview of issues to do is de facto an excessive amount of to say right here. We wish to share an important or hanging ones.
Youngsters’s Academies
We instantly seen the Youngsters’s Academies. You’ll find these academies in varied locations within the park. They provide a complete of 10 completely different academies. Which academies are there? Constructing Academy, Cooking Academy, Crafts Academy, Style Academy and a number of other others. The children academies are all about taking part in and studying. The Children Academies mix pleasure and training and problem kids and (grand)mother and father to be inventive and lively. All it’s good to do is select!
Indoor Play Paradise
Indoor Play Paradise The Harrewar is particularly for the youngest children as much as the age of 12. Climbing frames, slides and difficult rope ladders, it is a true paradise for teenagers. It covers greater than 1000 m², so it is a true journey for the youngest friends of Hof van Saksen.
Bowling
Bowling is a household favourite. It is enjoyable, thrilling and aggressive abruptly. Hof van Saksen solely has a restricted variety of bowling lanes, so reserving a lane throughout your keep is a should. You are able to do this at reception or through the Hof van Saksen app.
Household Golf
The Household Journey Golf has solely not too long ago been added to Hof van Saksen, however can already be seen as a favourite! It is the right exercise for households who’re into out of doors sports activities and golf. It is an 18-hole golf course and ensures enjoyable and leisure for the entire household.
Foot Golf
A variation on basic golf, foot golf. It’s a mixture of soccer and golf. The foot golf course is positioned all through the resort. So if you happen to play this sport you’ll instantly uncover the resort.
Playgrounds
You’ll find playgrounds for youngsters in a number of locations all through the park. All types of playground gear, at all times close to lodging. As a baby you do not have to stroll far to seek out one.
As talked about earlier than, that is only a small choice of the large vary of actions for all ages. Make sure that to take a look at the whole lot while you go to the park.
Indoor swimming paradise – Water Enjoyable
We nearly forgot to say maybe the best factor in the complete park. Hof van Saksen has top-of-the-line swimming swimming pools you’ll ever encounter at a vacation park. This primarily has to do with the spectacular and extremely cool water slides they’ve right here. They’ve a complete of 5 spectacular indoor water slides. Regardless of your age, when you see these slides you’ll go wild! Their slides all have their very own names and all are particular in their very own method.
Let’s begin with the most recent water slide at Hof van Saksen, the Subito. A spectacular tube with mild results in addition to a curve by which you roll round.
Subsequent is the Intenso. Earlier than coming into the Intenso remember to decide on the sunshine impact you need through the experience. It is a gigantic internal tube slide.
Then there’s the Bombo, the world’s largest indoor waterslide. Bombo equals the sensation of free fall.
One in every of our favorites is the Presto. A più presto means as quick as doable. That’s precisely what this slide is about. With the Presto you are undoubtedly in for an adrenaline rush. Race down the 115-metre observe at round 60 km per hour, superior!
Ultimately there’s the Saltato. That is the longest funnel slide on the earth and an expertise for actual daredevils. On this 195-metre-long water slide with 4 funnels, you shoot backwards and forwards in a 2-person internal tube.
Additionally they have a 107 meter lengthy white water course that goes outdoors and is heated in winter instances, so you will not get chilly. Get into the rapids and have some enjoyable.
Subsequent to the swimming pool Hof van Saksen additionally has a spa and wellness space. Yow will discover the health club right here in addition to the sauna space. That is additionally the place for massages or therapies. Please word that entrance to the wellness shouldn’t be included when staying at Hof van Saksen.
Culinary
With so many actions and a lot to do in and across the park, the culinary choices will not be unimportant. All these actions make you hungry and fortuitously the choices at Hof van Saksen are glorious in that regard. After all, we now have already talked about the Noordermarkt, the place you possibly can go for all of your groceries, contemporary bread and even a takeaway meal. However Hof van Saksen has way more to supply!
Al Fresco
To begin with, there’s the Self-service restaurant Al Fresco. Right here you can see an in depth and various menu with contemporary and wholesome meals. Al Fresco can also be the restaurant the place you possibly can take pleasure in a contemporary and in depth breakfast buffet each morning. From our personal expertise we will say that the breakfast buffet at Hof van Saksen is excellent and undoubtedly really helpful while you keep right here.
Grand Cafe
Then there’s the Grand Cafe. You’ll be able to stroll in right here all day lengthy. Within the morning for espresso and cake, within the afternoon for a scrumptious lunch and within the night for an important dinner. You’ll be able to take pleasure in native and seasonal dishes right here.
At all times ready with contemporary, natural and regionally sourced components the place doable.
Gusto
Do you know there’s even an Italian restaurant? At Gusto you possibly can take pleasure in scrumptious Italian dishes. The restaurant has a really stylish and atmospheric inside. Gusto is a little more luxurious than the Grand Cafe.
Throughout our keep we had dinner at each the Grand Café and Gusto. We actually loved each eating places and particularly had an important meal. We are able to suggest each of them for an important meal and nice evening out throughout your keep.
Hof van Saksen App
As a vacation park, Hof van Saksen even has its personal app, which is tremendous helpful. Every little thing you wish to know concerning the park may be discovered on this app. For instance, you can see opening hours of eating places, outlets and actions. You’ll be able to simply make reservations through the app. The app additionally comprises an interactive map on which you’ll be able to see precisely the place you’re strolling so you possibly can at all times discover your method again.
Earlier than you arrive at Hof van Saksen, you possibly can examine in on-line through the app, so to go straight to your own home upon arrival, with out having to go to reception. As a result of the app additionally comprises a digital key with which you at all times have entry to your farmhouse.
Issues to do round Hof van Saksen
Hof van Saksen is positioned in a particular a part of the Netherlands. It’s a huge and sparsely populated space. Excellent for going out in nature. Along with the infinite prospects within the surrounding nature reserves, there are a selection of particular sights close to the resort. Sights that you simply will not discover anyplace else within the Netherlands, so undoubtedly value visiting if you happen to’re within the space.
Hunebeds
The Hunebeds, prehistoric tombstones, are the oldest monuments within the Netherlands. They had been really transported to Drenthe through the Ice Age, are you able to think about?
There are a complete of 52 Hunebeds that you would be able to go to. They’re all positioned inside a 30 kilometer radius. It’s doable to do all of them, however it might be a bit a lot. The native vacationer data has provide you with the so known as Massive 5. You get to see one of the best 5 prehistoric tombstones. Amongst them is the biggest of all of them. This one is positioned close to the Hunebed Customer Heart, which can also be completely value a go to.
Camp Westerbork
That is most likely probably the most spectacular place you possibly can go to on this space. Camp Westerbork, hidden away within the woods. Camp Westerbork was often called the lobby of hell through the Second World Battle. It was a transit camp to focus camps like Auschwitz and Sobibor.
The previous campsite itself is accessible freed from cost. You’ll be able to’t get to the camp by automobile. You will should park your automobile on the museum’s carpark. From there it is roughly a 2.9km stroll to get to the camp. They’ve a shuttle bus working between the camp and the museum. The museum entrance charge is €13,50 and is totally value a go to. You’ll be taught so much about Westerbork’s historical past.
Radio Sterrenwacht
Think about strolling round Camp Westerbork and rapidly stumble upon 14 enormous satellites. It will possibly simply occur to you too, as a result of Westerbork Synthese Radio Telescope is positioned proper subsequent to Camp Westerbork. The massive satellites cannot be missed.
This telescope, inbuilt 1970, is among the most delicate telescopes on the earth. It consists of 14 satellite tv for pc dishes, every 25 meters in diameter.
The stroll from the Westerbork Museum to Camp Westerbork will information you alongside this telescope. In actual fact, this walkway is known as the Milkyway-walk. It is a very fascinating, enjoyable and exquisite strolling route on which the fascinating world of the universe and the biggest radio telescopes in Europe play a central function and are defined. Each younger and previous be taught concerning the operation of those huge satellite tv for pc dishes.
Fort Bourtange
Bourtange fortress is a novel historic defence work. Meet Fortress Bourtange, the fortress that was by no means taken. From the seventies till the nineties final century large reconstructions befell on the Fortress Bourtange. Digging the canals once more, forming the ramparts and reconstructing the various buildings, all within the model of the previous. They did this massively with the assistance of previous maps and drawings.
Welcome within the 12 months 1742, that is definitely what it seems like when strolling by means of Bourtange, stepping again in time. The fortress is positioned roughly a 30 minute drive from Hof van Saksen and completely value a go to.
Let’s go
We hardly really go to vacation parks till Hof van Saksen got here alongside. We had a fully superb weekend right here. The park is actually a five-star vacation park and ideal for households. It has the whole lot you possibly can think about, and extra!
This, together with the quiet, pure, wooded and fascinating environment, makes Hof van Saksen a real prime vacation spot.
