The Alkmaar cheese market

• Visit the Cheese market
  • When and where
  • Accessibility and Parking
  • Arriving by public transport
  • Tour coaches
  • Cheese Market for groups
  • Dutch Cheese Museum
  • Cheesefarms in and around Alkmaar
  • Order the Cheese Market Magazine here
• Ins and outs of the cheesemarket
  • History of the cheesemarket
  • Putting up the cheeses
  • Cheese father calls the roll
  • Opening of the market
  • Cheese inspection
  • Price bargaining
  • Weighing the cheese
  • Carrying cheese
  • The end of the cheese market
• Cheese carriers’ guild
  • Alkmaar cheese carriers’ guild
  • The forwarding companies
  • Traditions, customs, and habits
  • Positions of the cheese market and in the guild
  • Cheesemaids
• Cheese in the Netherlands
  • A piece of history
  • From Cow to Cheese
  • Cheese types
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Accessibility and Parking

By car: the Cheese Market is in the town centre. You can use the PRIS (Parking Route Information System) to find directions to the car parks.

Parking, general:
We would advise against taking a car into the city centre on a Friday morning. It is better to use one of the car parks ringing the centre.

Multi-storey car parks:

• Singelgarage, Wilhelminalaan, 10:00-18:00 € 1,60 per hour; 18:00-10:00 max. € 2 (shopping night after 21:00), sat. 10:00 till mon. 10:00 max. € 5
• Vestgarage, Paternosterstraat, 10:00-18:00 € 1,60 per hour; 18:00-10:00 max. € 2 (shopping night after 21:00), sat. 10:00 till mon. 10:00 max. € 5
• Karpertongarage, Dijk, 10:00-18:00 € 1,60 per hour; 18:00-10:00 max. € 2 (shopping night after 21:00), sat. 10:00 till mon. 10:00 max. € 5
• Kanaaleiland, Mallegatslplein / Afgesneden Kanaalvak, 10:00-18:00 € 1,60 per hour; 18:00-10:00 max. € 2 (shopping night after 21:00), sat. 10:00 till mon. 10:00 max. € 5
• Van Til, De Jagerstraat (10 min. walkingdistance) 1st 30 mins. free, then € 0.50 per 30 mins.
• Kwantum/ Leen Bakker, Oosterwezenstraat, € 2,50 per day
• Noorder Arcade, Kwakelkade, € 1,00 per 30 min. max. € 14
• Babyland, De Simsonstraat, € 3- per day 
• Ringers, Kwakelkade, first hour € 1, then € 1,50 per hour
• Plusmarkt, Kwakelkade, visitors first 2 hours free, € 2,00 per hour
• MCA (hospital) Wilhelminalaan € 0,50 per 23 min.

Open car parks:

• Parcade, Pettemerstraat € 3,- per day
• Klercq, Noorderstraat first our free, then € 2,- per hour
• Harddraverslaan, Harddraverslaan Saturday € 2,30 per hour
• Metiusgracht, Metiusgracht € 0,50 per 23 min.

Parking around the city centre
Street parking in the areas surrounding the city centre costs € 2,30 per hour (max. 3 hours!) Always check the information on the parking meter!

City Centre Parking
Charges: between 09:00-18:00 €2.30 per hour(max. 2 hours!); between 18:00-23:00 € 4,- (max. 1 hour!) Always check the information on the parking meter!

Parking for Campervans
There are as yet no separate sites for campervans in Alkmaar. You may park your campervan in the street parking spaces or in one of the car parks at Overstad. There is good parking for campervans at the Parcade on the Pettemerstraat (see "Car Parks"). You can also park your campervan at the campervan-parking at Camping Alkmaar (Bergerweg). This terrain is especially arranged for campervans. From here busses to the centre leave 8 x p.h.. You can park here for a (part of) a day or stay overnight against payment. To reach the campsite follow directions "Bergen".

Disabled parking
Disabled drivers may park free (for up to 3 hours in the city centre) in specially marked disabled parking bays. If you park in a standard parking bay or in a multi-storey car park you will have to pay the parking charges. The use of a parking disc, visibly displayed behind the windscreen, is mandatory in these special parking spaces. The driver of a clearly identifiable disabled vehicle may park in a disabled parking bay without displaying a "disabled" card.