The Vrienden op de Fiets Foundation promotes recreational cycling and hiking. We have been doing this since 1986 by ensuring that trekking cyclists and hikers have a place to stay overnight wherever they go. This is made possible because of the extensive network of affiliated guest addresses registered with us over the years.

These are mainly private persons who offer spare rooms – usually in their own homes -- to passing cyclists or hikers. As a donor of the Vrienden op de Fiets Foundation, you can enjoy bed and breakfast for the low price of €19.00 per person, per night (excluding tourist tax). The aim of the foundation is to ensure that their donors and the affiliated guest-room providers can contact one another. For this purpose, the Foundation publishes a new booklet each year in February with a complete overview of all available guest rooms for that year.

The number of guest accommodations continues to grow each year. For 2012, the total number of guest rooms will surpass the 4,000 mark!

By far, the majority of addresses are in the Netherlands and the border areas of Belgium and Germany. For enthusiasts, however, there are hundreds of guest accommodations in the rest of Europe – from Norway to Portugal and from Ireland to Hungary and even outside Europe, in countries such as Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Peru and the USA. These are mainly the addresses of Dutch nationals (temporarily) living abroad, who are familiar with the concept of Vrienden op de Fiets from their own experience as cyclists or hikers. They are therefore happy to welcome others into their homes.

The idea is simple. You are planning a trip or you are already underway. You check to see where you would like to stay the night. You then call or send an e-mail message to the guest-house address in question to make the necessary arrangements. Bear in mind that the guest house will ask you to show a valid donor card. The donor card covers the donor with partner and children who live at home or any grandchildren. If you are travelling with other adults, they must have valid donor cards.

When you become a donor, you will receive the (free) address book and a donor card, which enables you to reserve your own overnight stays.

You will find the terms and conditions for using your donor card, making reservations and method of payment in the information package that will be sent to your home address, along with the address book, within one or two weeks after registering.

For a minimum contribution of 8 euro, you will receive a donor card and an address book, which entitles you to utilise the guest addresses we offer.