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Trips

Liberty Park  War- and Resistance museum/Marshall Museum in Overloon
Anne Frank House in Amsterdam 
Camp Vught in Vught
Museums tour through Nijmegen and surrounding

Toverland
Bike-tour through the surrounding of the YMC 

Swimming
Peelgolf
Climbing Park Fun Forest
 


Liberty Park  War- and Resistance museum/Marshall Museum in Overloon 
Many groups, staying at the YMC, make also a trip to the War- and Resistance-museum. It is not too far away and can be reached easily by bike. The museum gives a “live”-report about daily life in the time between 1940 and 1945. For a couple of hours the visitors will be caught by exciting information, not only drawing the attention but also making you think about these things.

Time                  The guided tour takes about an hour. 

Fees                 Schoolgroups of min.20 people € 6,50 p.p.
                          Groups of min. 20 people older than 13 years € 10,- p.p.

Guidance         Per group € 27,50 Monday to Friday
                                           € 50,- Saturday and Sunday

Reservation     A guided tour should be booked at least two weeks before the stay. 

Transport:         It’s a distance of 18 kilometers, most groups go by bike.
                          A bike for the whole stay at the YMC costs € 10,- per bike.



Anne Frank House in Amsterdam
A trip to Amstedam with a visit to the Anne Frank House can be prepared in detail at the YMC Ysselsteyn and is a good addition to the program at the YMC.  We can provide you with a variety of video materials (e. g. the film “Just a diary”) which could be included in the preparations for the visit.

Time   The guided tour takes about 2 hours

Entrance fees
                            € 4,00 (younger than 18 y.) 
                            € 8,00  (older than 18 J.) p. p
                            Guided Tour € 30,- per group.

Reservation       The guided tour has to be booked 3 weeks in advance directly at the Anna Frank House.
                            The YMC-Team will gladly help you. 

Transport:           In case you do not have a bus, we can charter you a touring bus. It costs € 550,-- a day round trip
                            (
8:00 am – 8:00 pm). Please consider that it might be cheaper to take the train, if your group is not that
                            big. The YMC-Team will gladly help you, to find the best solution.
 


Camp Vught in Vught

On the German cemetery in Ysselsteyn rest also civil victims, who died in Vught. 
These citizens are German women and children, who lived near the German en Dutch Border. They were evacuated to Vught during the end of the war. 
A visit in Camp Vught provides information about what happened in the concentration-camp in Vught.
You can combine this trip with a sightseeing-tour through Den Bosch.

Fees                There is no entrance-fee requested yet.

For school groups (between 10-25 people) a guided tour can be booked for € 15,-.

Reservation     The guided tour has to be booked in advance
 


Museums tour through Nijmegen and surrounding


Canada - Netherlands memorial park Groesbeek

As a memorial to the Canadians having fought for the liberation of the Dutch people
during the Second World War. 

Canadian War Cemetery
More than 2300 Canadian soldiers rest on this cemetery, who died during the operation "Veritable" in February 1945. 

Between the park and the cemetery is the 
1944 – 1945 National Liberation Museum

situated. This museum has the intention to warn the visitor of the threats for liberty, democracy and human rights in the past and the present. ‘Democracy and human rights are still under fire, and this should encourage us for more engagement.’ The museum also offers some educational programs.


Fees           Student-groups min. 10 persons € 3,00
                    Guided tour max. 20 persons € 20,-
 

Africa musem
This open-air museum provides information about the living and working conditions in some places of Africa. Part of the visit is a walk over a living area from Ghana followed by a village of the Dogon from Mali. The museum organizes different activities for groups such as cooking, African stories, music and dance workshops.

Fees   student-education-program € 3,50 p. p.
            Guided tour € 50 , weekends € 55,00


Bible-open-air-museum

This museum gives us detailed information about the origins and the background of those religions influenced by the bible. It is the goal of this museum to contribute via education to a change in the way of thinking in a multicultural society. 

Fees           Student-groups of more than 20 people € 4 p. p.
                    Groups older than 13 year € 8,50 p.p.
                    Guided tour for groups (max. 20 people) € 25,-   

Toverland 

An all-weather parc in Sevenum, 14 kilometer from the YMC!

Click here for more information!


Bike-tour through the surrounding of the YMC 
One day by bike through the surrounding of
Northern Limburg incl. guided tour of the National Park “De Peel” and guided tour of a rose-farm. 

Fee                     For the guided tour of "De Peel" have the journey-costs to be paid and it is important to give a                                 small present.                           
                            The guide of the rose-farm expects a small present.

Reservation        The guided tour has to be prearranged.
Requirements    Bikes, € 10,- p.p. for the whole stay at the YMC.
 


Swimming
The "
Gran Dorado Park" in Loohorst offers a subtropical water-paradise including child-bath, surge-bath, warm bath outside (also in the winter), jet-stream, water-slide, whirlpools and recreation-bath. The bath can be reached by bike.

Swimming is a nice activity in the evenings.

Fees
3 hours € 4,95 p. p.
Hole day € 9,95 p. p.

Peelgolf
<>Peelgolf is a variation of the regular Golfgame. There is a peelgolftrack of 10 holes, wich you have to do in so less as possible battles. The holes has a length between the 50 en 150 meters. A hole consist of a turnpoint and a endpoint; ‘the put’, a bucket in the ground with a numberd flag. The bucket is the start for the next hole.
Everybody can play unesteemed the age or sporttalent.

You’ll find the Peelgolftrack in 5 min. walking from the YMC!

<>Fees:  
Groups till 30 pers. € 3,00 p.p.

Groups till 60 pers. € 2
,50 p.p


Climbing park Fun forest

A Fun Forest full of exciting adventures suitable for the young and the old.
Fun Forest has 8 different courses in living trees ranging in various heights and levels of difficulty. You'll be up for some exciting and surprising challenges!
prices:
Youth 14/17 year or students € 16,50
Adults 18+ € 18,50
practice parcours € 8,50
For more information: www.funforest.nl