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Tourists complain just as loudly as catering, everything is way too expensive.

Tropical temperatures, cooling wind and beautiful terraces. In recent weeks, it turns out that these are not trump cards for the Scheveningen seaside resort. For weeks in a row, catering operators have been wondering what is going on. Where are the day tourists, where are the Germans? The answer is hard to find but what is certain are the prices that are asked to spoil that tourist. They don't really cooperate!

Little or no traffic jams on the way to Scheveningen. It is a good drive on the Alkemadelaan towards the beach. Arriving in Scheveningen we see traffic wardens sitting on the wall who have nothing to do. There are hardly any parking problems this week, enough parking spaces in garages. The terraces are almost all empty. Despite the lack of personnel in all sectors, people in Scheveningen are not really complaining about this summer.

The prices are now a drama. You will lose 10 euros for a drink.

Few people, perhaps a distorted picture, the number of seats on the terraces has more than doubled in recent corona years. In addition, the new part between the Pier and the Carlton Beach hotel has also received many new terraces and a food hall. The once popular resort now has an abundance of beach chairs, restaurants, beach bars and food offerings.

Seats abound, so it's a fight for every euro the consumer wants to spend. Remarkably enough, the catering industry does not do this with lures. On the contrary, sky-high prices are being asked for a beer, a steak or a fish. If you take a bottle of wine with your meal, you can easily pay an extra EUR 40.

Seats abound, so it's a fight for every euro the consumer wants to spend.

sleep

Scheveningen has always been one of the more expensive seaside resorts. But sleeping on the beach in your own tent during the night hours is not an option at the seaside resort. The Scheveningen police regularly go to the beach in the early morning on the police quad to check the beach tents and the beach for sleepers. The result yesterday was seven court reports of EUR 160.

"If we don't act, the beach can't be cleaned up by the tractors".

That is one of the reasons that the police act against the beach sleepers because of dangerous situations that can arise. The Noorderstrand is swept clean in the morning by tractors. "In addition, the beach and the catering industry are not camping and we want to keep it that way," the police said in a tweet.

Park

Error parking remains a major problem in many seaside resorts. Not only for the emergency services, but also for residents who can no longer even reach their own parking space or driveway on busy days. Seaside resorts such as Scheveningen do everything they can to limit the nuisance as much as possible. Error parkers are not only motorists, scooters are also often parked carelessly and cause nuisance.

There are virtually no parking problems this week.
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