IJsbaan Twente

Enschede · Public skating times & prices

A covered 400-metre oval with a sunken 30 by 60 metre ice field, opened on 1 October 2008.

Public skating at IJsbaan Twente: the next 7 days

Monday 12 October

  • · Recreatief schaatsen (30x60 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 m baan)

Tuesday 13 October

  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (30x60 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 m baan)

Wednesday 14 October

  • · Recreatief schaatsen (30x60 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 m baan)

Thursday 15 October

  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (30x60 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 m baan)

Friday 16 October

  • · Recreatief schaatsen (30x60 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 m baan)

Saturday 17 October

  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (30x60 m baan)

Sunday 18 October

  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (30x60 m baan)
Address
Colosseum 90, Enschede, 7521 PT
Phone
+31 53 460 19 70
Website
optisport.nl
IJsbaan Twente in Enschede seen across its car park, a long low silver and blue domed hall with flagpoles at the entrance end — IJsbaan Twente
IJsbaan Twente in Enschede seen across its car park, a long low silver and blue domed hall with flagpoles at the entrance end Photo: Tubantia · Source · CC BY-SA 3.0
The empty ice of the covered 400 m track at IJsbaan Twente with the ice resurfacer working a bend, under the green steel roof, the boards and advertising panels along the track — IJsbaan Twente
The empty ice of the covered 400 m track at IJsbaan Twente with the ice resurfacer working a bend, under the green steel roof, the boards and advertising panels along the track Photo: Optisport, IJsbaan Twente page · Source

Twente's covered 400-metre oval, opened on 1 October 2008 after four decades of attempts

Twente first tried to get a 400-metre track in 1968, and attempts to use Stadion Veldwijk and to move the 1992 Albertville Olympic oval to Twente both failed. A new initiative began in 2001, and after setbacks the budget was assembled from the province of Overijssel, the Twente towns and other partners. Building started in July 2007, and NOC*NSF chair Erica Terpstra opened the IJsbaan Twente on 1 October 2008.

The municipality of Enschede had it designed, built and operated under one design-build-operate contract for 20 years, and promoted it as the greenest ice track in the Netherlands. It consists of a fully covered 400-metre oval with a sunken 30 by 60 metre ice field, and the hall seats 2,000 spectators at races.

The first track record was set in 2008 by Remco Olde Heuvel from Losser over 500 metres, in 36.67. The hall has hosted national sprint championships in 2009 and 2011, a junior World Cup in 2019 and a national marathon championship in 2020. The speed skating club SIJE, which lost its natural-ice track, now skates here in winter.

Before you head out.

Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.

Admission

A single visit costs €9 per person, groups of 20 or more pay €8 each (€7 from 50 people), and a family card for 4 people with at least 2 children up to 15 costs €30.

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Skates & rentals

Skates can be hired at the rink: hockey and figure skates and long-blade speed skates cost €7 a pair (€6 per pair for groups of 20, €5.50 from 50), in sizes up to 50.

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Booking & check-in

A single-visit ticket can be bought online; the family card is bought at the rink.

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Skating with children

Family Fun sessions let families slide on sledges and on their stomachs, and walk on the ice in shoes, on the inner rink.

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Parking & arrival

Parking at the rink is free.

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Accessibility

The rink runs Frameschaatsen sessions for children with a physical disability who want to try skating.

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A source check records what the rink published on that date. Session-specific booking details take precedence.