Tulip fields, windmills stay in Holland
 

Hello!
I am wondering if there are hotels or B&Bs around Amsterdam that would be right in the middle of a tulip field or maybe a little place right next to the picturesque windmills. Any advice? I would only need to stay for one night. Thank you

Stay in Lille, Holland and visit Keukenhof Gardens. Search the Holland Tourist website for places to stay and good deals but book NOW for this year.

http://www.holland.com/us/

Not Lille but it's Lisse, Holland a town surrounded by flower fields. check the local VVV (Tourist Office) for B&bs near the fields. Keukenhof is about 4 miles from Lisse i believe.

You can also take a room in a B&B in Leiden or Haarlem from which you can ride a bike to Keukenhof. On a nice day it will be a day you will long remember.

Or take a train from Haarlem or Leiden to Hillegom station - this station is out in the middle of nowhere and is surrounded by swatches of pulchritudinous flower fields. The station is just a raised platform so you have a perch to see blooms for miles around. There are benches on the platform so bring a picnic - few people around the station, so except for the occasional train you'll have the place to yourself. It'a about a 2-mile walk thru flower fields from here to Keukenhof - a stupendous floral fantasy that i highly recommend. But anyway you walk thru flower fields that in spring are an undulating sea of tulips. the flowers i believe are grown for the bulbs so the tulip plants are cut off and left to dry and supposedly then fed to cows. You'll see rows of dug up bulbs drying in the fields. Even without the Keukenhof being open a walk thru the flower fields, which bloom periodically throughout the growing season, always have something flowering. Mixed in with the fields are numerous greenhouses. Anyway the Hillegom rail station offers a tremendous view of the flower fields - perhaps like the image you imagined when you wanted a B & B in the fields - and i'll bet there are some rural B & Bs in the flower fields - hit the Lisse VVV Tourist Office web site or call them.

to reach the Keukenhof by public transport take a train to Leiden from where shuttle buses run to the gardens. check this out on www.keukenhof.nl