Reisapp

Rijksoverheid

About this app

Travel information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Customs. Immediate notification when the travel advice of your favorite country changes.

With the app:
- View the current travel advice;
- Check what you may or may not take with you in your travel luggage. In the app you can read the rules about bringing medicines, money, food, drinks, tobacco, animals, plants, amounts higher than € 10,000 or expensive products. Different rules apply within the EU than outside the EU;
- Read about what to do in case of emergencies, such as admission to hospital, death, arrest, etc. You also immediately have the contact details of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague at hand;
- Can you convert currency, volume and weight to euros and units that are common in the Netherlands (such as kg and litres);
- You can keep purchase receipts in the receipt book of previously purchased products of greater value (> € 430), which you take with you on a trip. This way you can show when you return to the Netherlands that you had already bought these products before you went on your trip, and you prevent unpleasant situations;
- Look up the representation (Dutch embassies, consulates-general, honorary consulates) in a country.

Favorite a country so you can:
- automatically receive a push message as soon as the travel advice for that country has been adjusted. This way you are always aware of the current security situation abroad.
- you can read all travel information even without an internet connection. You do need an internet connection to update to the latest travel information.

Ratings and reviews

Works perfectly fine in Android and gave fully accurate up to date info, which I also verified on the destination country's websites. I am glad I downloaded it before travel. Contrary to other users' belief, this is a Dutch app by the Dutch foreign ministry for Dutch-speaking travellers intending to go abroad. So it is really only the choice of a user to either learn some Dutch, or else use the travel app from your own government's foreign ministry, if that is what you really need.

When I receive push notification for changes in travel advice, I check and more often then not I wait long for the app to load the data. Maybe server overload when everyone checks at the same time? Also, it is hard to determine from the map sometimes whether some region is yellow or orange. Especially with France in patches. Only way is to enter each of the listed regions in Google maps and see whether my destination Laura in one of them. Benefit is the world map which is not on the website.

Useless (in English - phone language), doesn't work at all; can't select anything.

What's new

Nieuw is de samenvatting van het reisadvies onder In het kort. Verder is de indeling aangepast en ziet u in 1 oogopslag welke veiligheidsrisico’s er in het land zijn, wat u kunt doen in geval van nood, en hoe u zich voorbereidt op uw reis.