Guest Information - Day Trips

This may help you in deciding what to do when you get here.

Local Open Air Markets:
Tuesday - Geilenkirchen
Wednesday - Birgden (small)
Thursday - Sittard, the Netherlands (large)
Friday - Geilenkirchen
Sunday - Tongeren, Belgium (flea market, antiques)

Hoensbroek Castle, the Netherlands (20 minute drive)
http://www.kasteelhoensbroek.nl/html/?me=2&su=0&si=3

Aachen, Germany (30 - 45 minute drive or you can take the train)
http://www.aachen.de/EN/
beautiful cathedral

Dusseldorf, Germany (45 minute drive or you can take the train)
http://www.duesseldorf.de/eng/tourism/discover/index.shtml

Cologne, Germany (1 hour drive or you can take the train)
http://www.koeln.de/en/
the Cologne Cathedral is the highlight - it took over 600 years to build
Rhine river cruise

Brussels, Belgium (1 1/2 hour drive)
http://www.visitbelgium.com/brussels.htm

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2 hour drive or you can take a train)
http://www.holland.com/amsterdam/gb/
a good place to consider staying overnight
Anne Frank House
Canal Tour
LOTS of museums
Heineken Brewery Tour (complete with multi-sensory ride)
of course the red light district

Brugge, Belgium (2 1/2 hour drive)
http://www.brugge.be/internet/en/index.htm
a good place to consider staying overnight
Church of Our Lady (Michaelangelo's "Madonna and Child")
Choco Story chocolate museum
a brewery
canal tour

St. Goar, Germany (2 hour drive)
http://www.st-goar.de/17-1-.html
impressive castle
Rhine river cruise (recommend to Bacharach)

Banneux and Beauraing, Belgium (~2 hours-ish to the farther one, they are near eachother)
http://beauraing.catho.be
www.theotokos.org (search Banneux, Beauraing)
sites the Vigin Mary has appeared

Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (2 hour 45 minute drive)
http://www.lcto.lu/html_en/index.html