Visit The Netherlands - 5 Things You Will Love & Hate about The Netherlands

Our weather is so inconsistent here, while watching your video as a Dutch man it started to rain, had a thunderstorm and now the sun is shining again. lol

It's considered rude in a lot of European countries for a waiter to just bring you the bill. It's like "you are not welcome anymore, just leave already". As a costumer you ask for it to signalize you are done and would like to leave. You also make eye contact or signalize verbally that you would like to order because the waiter constantly asking and therefore disturbing you is considered rude as well.

About the service here, it's true it can be quite slow and therefore annoying. But there's another side to it as well. Here, proactive waitstaff can easily be considered to be pushy, annoying and 'too much'. We don't like it when we feel we're being pushed to order more drinks for example. With the bill, we want customers to feel welcome to stay as long as they like, so we never bring them the bill unless they ask for it. We usually think: If I want something, I'll ask for it, so it's considered to be good service to "let the customer be" and "not bother them too much".

This makes me a bit annoyed bc -There are more city's in Netherland than Amsterdam -the service isn't that bad -GET OF THE FRICKIN BIKE LANES

To Dutch.. the most bothering thing is tourists saying they "know" The Netherlands, because they've been in Amsterdam, Rotterdam or The Hague.. or ust have visited some crappy overcrowded cities and a wannabe city ( The Hague isn't a city, that's why it didn't became the capitol of The Netherlands ) , like one went to New York and became an "expert" on the USA... Visit Maastricht, Groningen, Den Bosch, Leeuwarden, Assen, Arnhem.. THEN you will see the Netherlands.. which ISN'T HOLLAND !!

Get off our bike lanes! They are not part of the sidewalk.

Why would you walk on the bike lanes? They are literally called BIKE lanes...

Amsterdam is not the netherlands

4 thats because it is ilegal to walk on the bike lanes

You should have called it 5 things you will hate about Amsterdam! Because most of the things are just a problem in Amsterdam...

the reason the dutch will not give you your bill is because it is considered rude. We don't wanna push you out of the restorant and give you the space to stay as long as you like.

Most Dutch people don't enjoy going to Amsterdam XD

1: is not true. I live quite close to the German border, and even though we do have 3 coffeeshops in my town (which is a lot for a town of 30k), all people visiting them are dutch. 2: Never saw stairs like that before. Must be in Amsterdam only. (Just like a lot of things you said) 3: The service isn’t that bad. We just aren’t pushy and our waiters tend to serve your food as soon as you’re done chit chatting. And you won’t be presented a bill so quickly because we don’t want you to get hasty, take your time, take another drink, etcetera. Enjoy your night! 4: ‘Walking in the bike lines’ THEY’RE BIKE LANES?! You’re not supposed to walk on them, that’s like walking on the middle of regular streets. Dutch people don’t cycle for leisure, they cycle to get to work and/or school. So if you’re being annoying on the bike lanes, and taking up our time, you’re obstructing us from getting to actually important places in time. 5: Dutch weather is not bad at all. Countries like England have to endure a lot more rain on a yearly bases, and our summers are incredibly dry except for a few rainfalls that take like an hour. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, etcetera also have to endure more rain fall, and are way colder. But nobody seems to point that out...

There's a reason the dutch word for "stair" is "trap"

Nou wil ik niet veel zeggen maar de service is gewoon goed en als je een fooi geeft moet je niet meteen verwachten dat je beter wordt behandeld

I love it, a tourist complaining about tourists in Amsterdam.. You sir... have been here way too often, you start to have dutch tendencies ;-)

Everybody in the Netherlands knows that you should not walk in the bike lanes as they are supposed to be fore bikes ONLY. You wouldn't walk on a highway either and then get upset that the cars are not making way for you, would you? There are clearly marked footpaths everywhere in the country. But I guess it's hard for tourists to get used to a sophisticated infrastructure.

The only place in The Netherlands where stairs are steep is Amsterdam 😂

It's really funny how you mentioned that the train transport here is great, and it is, don't get me wrong, but the people here in The Netherlands typically joke about the NS (The Dutch train company) always being late. There is a lot of delay sometimes, especially towards the bigger cities. It can be frustrating, but NS do refund your ticket if the delay took too long, so that's a very big plus.

Thats not how every stairs look in nl just in those small hotels in a’dam