Keukenhof Tulip Festival 2025 – What to Expect, Tickets, Dates and more!

The Keukenhof Tulip Festival is one of the most popular events in Lisse near Amsterdam during the Dutch spring. The flower show festival dates back to the post-World War II era, and the horticulturists and landowners of Lisse supported it. Over the years, it became a vast garden covering 79 acres and featuring different flower shows, including daffodils, hyacinths, orchids, lilies and tulips.

This seasonal garden is now the center of various horticulture events and a flower parade. It displays over one million flowers of different colors and varieties yearly, with the tulip experience being the most special. Separate tulip experience tickets, which include walking tours and helicopter rides, are available.

Keukenhof Tulip Festival Dates 2025

The Keukenhof Gardens is open from 20 March 2025 to 11 May 2025 for 53 days. The garden timings are from 8 am to 7 pm daily during these 53 days and are open on Sundays and public holidays. This is when you can see blooming tulips and other flower varieties outdoors, in the warmth of the spring sun and after the chilling winter.

What to Expect at the Amsterdam Tulip Festival Keukenhof

The Keukenhof Tulip Festival 2025 is one of the best ways to experience your love for nature, which is well-preserved and displayed through the colorful tulips and other flowers in the outdoor fields and the indoor pavilions. Each flower show has a specific theme each year based on which the spaces are decorated. Here are some of the things that you can do while visiting the flower festival at Keukenhof.

Flower Shows

The primary attraction of the Amsterdam tulip festival Keukenhof is the vast display of colorful flowers of different varieties across the garden. The most popular is the tulip parade on the outdoor fields that bloom during the Dutch spring and early summer. Other flower shows include hyacinths, anthurium, orchids, freesia, chrysanthemum, rose, daffodils, Alstroemeria, Gerbera, Lisianthus, Callashow, Carnation and Summer flowers and plant shows.

These shows primarily occur in the Oranje Nassau Pavilion, Willem-Alexander Pavilion and Beatrix Pavilion. In addition to the pavilions, outdoor fields are on display, where you can walk or cycle from outside to roam around and see the colorful tulips playing under the warm sun and breeze.

Events

Several other events occur during the Keukenhof Tulip Festival, including performances by Dutch bands and Easter and Mother’s Day celebrations. The garden also celebrates the Holland Heritage Days from 28 March to 30 March 2025. You can even ride the boat surrounding the flower gardens, listening to romantic music with your special other.

 Activities

You can also participate in other activities during the Flower Fest. Some of them include a relaxing electric boat ride around the tulip bulbs and experiencing the whispering of the flower fields.

Climb the 1892 mill at Keukenhof and see the beautiful tulip flower fields from the top and the surrounding park area.

Amsterdam Tulip Festival Tickets

The Tulip Festival has different tour tickets depending on the kind of experience you are looking for. From a simple entry ticket to a guided or helicopter tour and a festival pass, here are some popular options with Keukenhof Tulip festival ticket prices.

Entry Ticket

This is the basic entry ticket to the Keukenhof Gardens and the Tulip Festival. This Tulip Experience Amsterdam ticket also gives access to the museum, flower exhibitions, cinema, and markets. You can even self-pick bunches of tulips from the indoor picking pavilions and take them with you.

Guided Tulip Field Tours

This guided tour provides access to the Keukenhof Gardens and takes you around the flower festival with a guide. You get transport arrangements from Amsterdam by bus, and on reaching the city, you get a behind-the-scenes tour and meet the horticulturist family. It also includes a walking tour and climbing the windmill to view the tulip fields.

Helicopter Tour of Tulip Fields

Take a helicopter ride from Lisse and roam around on top of the tulip fields to get a great view of the flower parade and a different perspective.

Tulip Festival Pass

This festival card is a great way to experience some of the popular things in and around Amsterdam, such as the Tulip Festival entry and tour from Amsterdam’s central station. This pass also includes a 60-minute canal cruise on the Amsterdam canals. You get a digital guide for both throughout your respective activities.

Visitor Information

Here is some essential information you would need while planning to travel to the gardens for the Keukenhof Tulip Festival 2025.

Timings

The garden is open from 20 March 2025 to 11 May 2025, and the opening hours are from 8 am to 7 pm daily. There are no closed days during this time, including Sundays and public holidays.

How to Reach

The Keukenhof Gardens are easily accessible by various means of transport. It is 40 kilometers from Amsterdam and 3 kilometers from Lisse town center.

Address: Stationsweg 166A, 2161 AM Lisse, Netherlands. Get Directions

You can reach the Keukenhof Gardens for the Tulip Flower Festival by public transport from Amsterdam or Lisse. Otherwise, you can also travel in a private or rental car, camper or bike/ scooter. Many tours, including entry tickets and transportation, take you to Keukenhof, another excellent option for visiting this flower fest.

The best time to visit

The best time to visit the Tulip Festival Holland Keukenhof is early in the morning as soon as the garden opens at 8 am. Until 10.30 am, the park is quiet, and you can have a crowd-free experience in the morning sun.Another good time to go is after 4 pm when most of the morning crowd has left, and you can see the beautiful tulips and other flower fields in the evening sunlight. On a weekday, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays are typically the quietest days to visit.

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