The Tulip Barn Selfie en Instagram Garden

When the bulb fields are blooming in a kaleidoscope of colours, ‘tulip fever’ grows. Tourists, especially foreign tourists, want to take as many pictures as possible. Not so much of the tulips, but of themselves and the tulips, perfect for Instagram. There is a problem. The tulip growers absolutely do not want tourists to stand in the middle of their bulb fields for that perfect picture. This problem can be solved by visiting the Tulip Barn.

The Tulip Barn: Instagram Dream

The Tulip Barn is an ‘outdoor Instagram experience’, that’s what they call themselves. They are right; the Tulip Barn is an Instagram paradise. Standing among the colourful tulips, you can take the most beautiful pictures. There are more than 400,000 tulips and more than 20 Instagrammable photo objects in the tulip fields.

Paths run right through the fields. This way you can take that perfect Insta-shot where you are sitting behind a piano in a tulip field or seem to be driving past the tulips on a tractor, or sitting on a swing.

Restaurant among the Tulips

The restaurant is located in a converted greenhouse. Have a cup of coffee with cake or have a drink in a green environment full of flowers and plants. During the weekend there are food trucks with fries, bitterballen (a small fried meat ragout ball) and many more snacks.

Book your Time Slot

Your visit to the Tulip Barn must be booked in advance and works with time slots of one hour so that only a limited number of visitors are present at the same time. This allows you to take photos without other visitors in the background.

The first time slot is from 10:00 – 11:00, the last is from 18:00 – 19:00.

Getting there

Address: the Tulip Barn, 3e Loosterweg 130, Hillegom
There is ample parking if you come by car.

Open from end of March to early May

By public transport:
Take the train to Hillegom, from the Amsterdam Centraal, it is about a 25-minute walk to the Tulip Barn. On the way, you will pass many bulb fields.

Trivia
Did you know that the tulip is not an indigenous Dutch flower at all and that you could earn money with it in the seventeenth century, known as tulip mania?

TIP: go on a daytrip to the Keukenhof Flower Garden for more tulips and photos.