Scheveningen – Loslopen.net

This is a stretch of beach about half an hour from The Hague by car. Scheveningen is famous for its pier (De Pier) and promenade, which is wide and full of bars, restaurants and shops. If your goal is to spend a day browsing in the shops, lunching in any of the restaurants and cafes on the enormous promenade, strolling along the pier and then relaxing in a dog friendly bar alongside the beach with a cocktail in your hand then this is the place to be!

The entire promenade and the beach right next to the pier it is a leash-only area in summer, and the beach is only off leash between 1 October and 15 May.

But! There are two all year dog beaches in Scheveningen:

Zwarte Pad Parking area
Right at the north end of the Zwarte Pad car park is the start of a dog beach zone where you can reward your patient pup after a day of shopping and restaurants with a decent beach run around all year round.
Zuiderstrand Beach, entrance 2
We have no personal experience of this section of beach but according to this website, dogs should be allowed all year round. If anyone gives this area a try then please feel free to update us!

There is also a park just behind the car park (Oostduinpark) which you can also let your pup sniff around in, but this is a leash-only area. It’s not a massive area but it does have some nice views from the top of the hill.

Leashed dogs are also allowed on the pier, the top level is open and you can look out to sea, the lower level is under cover and with the usual holiday resort entertainment of pinball machines, slot machines, a few shops and some fried food booths.

If you are coming by car then get here early, the parking spot gets really busy in the afternoon with people going for the beach-side bars and restaurants.

The rest of Scheveningen is not particularly special to walk through, we walked through the pedestrian high street to the fish harbour which is pretty industrial. There are a couple of nice shops on the way, and of course several fish restaurants in the harbour area (we went to the Dagvisser – nice terrace).

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