Built to save you hours of searching
Holiday camps in the Netherlands are a genuinely good thing — and a wide, lightly regulated market. A summer week can be run by a registered childcare organisation with public inspection reports, by a sports club, by a museum, or by two enthusiastic people with a van. This free 12-page guide is the set of questions that tells you which one you are looking at.
It covers the Dutch school-break calendar and the regional dates that catch families out, an honest comparison of day camps and sleepover camps by age, a twelve-point checklist covering supervision ratios, VOG and first aid, food and allergies, the language the week actually runs in, pick-up flexibility and cancellation terms — plus what a camp week commonly costs, and a careful explanation of when kinderopvangtoeslag applies and when it does not.
Page 10 is a one-page list of twenty questions, designed to be screenshotted and sent straight to a camp before you pay the deposit.
A peek at what you'll get
A peek inside the free holiday camp guide.
