Rotterdam is a large enough city, so it is most convenient to study it, moving on a bike. Just as in Amsterdam, Rotterdam has cycling red tracks and special signs. In compliance with the rules of movement for cyclists, it is necessary to, with this there as strictly as in the capital. For cycling in Rotterdam, and in all Holland, no compulsory carrying helmet is required.
You can take Bike rental For example, on Couwenburg 58 Street in the store "PARK & BIKE".
There are exhibited bicycles with manual brake for € 12.50 per day, with each day the price is becoming lower (in two days - € 20, 3 days - € 27, week - € 42). You can take a bike and for several hours, usually, for three hours it will cost € 7.50. It is also possible to take the electric bike in this box (which is much easier to move, especially those who are not particularly friendly in the sport. Single hybrid is a regular and scooter). Rental electric bike per day costs € 25. The store is open on weekdays from 8:30 to 17:30. By the way, if you order a large on-line, a 10% discount will be provided (Book is great here: http://www.park-bike.eu/pages/reserveren.php)
Another rental point - RijwielShop Rotterdam CS At StationSplein 298. It's right near the train station, which is very convenient.
Prices there are even cheaper than in the previous box: on day - € 7.50, week - € 37.50. Electric bike costs € 20 per day. The cost of rental includes insurance. For the worst keys, a fine is about € 10. You can also rent both tandems there, and additional seats for rental children will have to pay a deposit in sum from 50 to 145 euros, depending on the type of bicycle. Rental is open from 04:30 to 02:00, on Friday and Saturday - from 05:00 to 01:45. On Sundays and Festive Days - from 05:15 to 01:45. Such here are hardworking roller!
Another rental - "USE-IT" On Vijverhofstraat 47, again, next to the station. There are leased green bikes of the famous brand Kronan for € 6 per day (for getting great, you need a deposit of € 50, do not forget). By the way, "USE-IT" is not only the rental of Great, and also a useful tourist center, where you will be helped to book a hotel or hostel, you will tell you where to go, give a map or sit in the Internet cafe.
Another rental is "Rotterdam Bycycle" on Schiekade 205 (near the train station, next to Hollywood Music Hall and International Architecture Biennale).
Here, too, you can take the great Kronan, however, only if you came to Rotterdam from 10 or more people. Moreover, you need to make an order in advance. If you take bicycles on the day, one is great worth € 7, a few days - € 6 per day. Rental is open from 9 am to 18:30. By the way, you can also order a tour of a bike with a guide, for example, a two-hour tour of the city center for € 19, or a tour of 2.5 hours for € 21, during which the guide will tell about the main architectural advantages of the city, or a long-term city tour "Big City Tour" for € 23. And also, you can take a day excursion with the included dinner, visiting the Euromacht Tower or the Port of Spiddle.
You can also take a bike in "KUIJPER TWEEWIERS" On Abraham Kuyperlaan 97 Street.
It is in the northern part of the Rotterdam, before renting for 25 trams to the Schieweg station. Rental Velikov costs € 6.50 per day, with deposit € 35. Well, another rental, one of the most popular, is located right in the building of cubic houses, What on Overblaak 70. The rental is carried out in the Hostel Stayokay Hostel for € 9.50 per day.
If suddenly you needed great With a cart "bakfires" (Well, you never know, children carry, for example!), You can ask you for the presence of it in the rental, or book here in two days: http://www.bakfietsverhuur-rotterdam.nl/).
It is worth such pleasure € 15 per afternoon, then every subsequent half day will come out at € 7.50. For all weekends to rent bucks will cost € 50. Deposit - € 200. There is a rental on Schutterstraat 17 (we are going to 7 trams to Crooswijksestraat or straight from the station to 39 bus). Rental works around the clock with minor breaks.
I remind you that you can park a large almost everywhere (with the exception of the places marked by the prohibition icon), but on the RotterDam Central Station, parking spaces must be booked in advance. Also in Rotterdam, it is impossible to move in public transport with a bike (and in the capital in the subway there are even special cars for travel with a bicycle). To compile a competent path and drive through all the significant sights of the city, you can take in the Rotterdam Tourist Office on the street Coolsingel Book 'Cycling the Dikes in Rotterdam'. It is free, and will help better navigate in the city.
You can rent scooter on Overblaak 104 for € 10 for 3 hours (it's next to the Metro Blaak).
Also on the streets of Rotterdam, cycling.
That is, it is a three-wheeled velaiksha with a driver's seat and two passenger seats from behind. Usually, such a velaiksha can be caught on the main streets of the city from mid-April to the end of September, while warm. This is a very convenient way of movement, although, rather, entertainment, because it is pleasure to be expensive: 3 minutes of skiing - € 1 per person. So, ride slowly on the main streets of the city of Power from an hour will get in a penny.
You can move around Rotterdam on a taxi, although, as you understand, the option is not cheap.
You can catch a taxi on the street, or call from the hotel from the reception. There are taxi stations at the airport, on the railway station, near the metro Eendrachtsplein, with De Dolen theater, with De Bijenkorf shopping center on Coolsingel 105, Zuidplein Mall and Alexandrium Mall shopping centers, and others. Naturally, a bunch Taxis is formed near the Night Clubs of Rotterdam. The most famous taxi company is "Rotterdamse Taxi Centrale" (abbreviated, RTC).
Official rates in taxi - € 1.95 / km. There should be no surcharge for luggage or travel at night! True, a taxi driver can ask for an additional fee if it comes to your luggage to the car, but it should be agreed in advance.
Prices for travel from the station are: to the airport - € 19, to the Embankment DelfShaven - € 11, to Euromacutes - € 9, to Blaak Station Metro Station - € 8, to Zuidplein Mall shopping center - € 15, to TC "Alexandrium Mall "- € 21, to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol- € 130, to the village of Kinderdijk - € 60, to the Hague Station - € 57.