IJsbaan De Westfries

Hoorn · Public skating times & prices

A 400-metre oval opened in September 2006, backed by 1,600 bondholders.

Public skating at IJsbaan De Westfries: the next 7 days

Monday 12 October

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

Tuesday 13 October

  • · Recreatief schaatsen (30x60 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 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 (30x60 m baan)
  • · Recreatief schaatsen (400 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
Westfriese Parkweg 5, Hoorn, 1625 MA
Phone
+31 229 277 660
Website
optisport.nl
The entrance side of IJsbaan De Westfries in Hoorn, a blue and brick building with the De Westfries name sign and a flagpole in front of the glass entrance — IJsbaan De Westfries
The entrance side of IJsbaan De Westfries in Hoorn, a blue and brick building with the De Westfries name sign and a flagpole in front of the glass entrance Photo: Erik Baas · Source · CC BY 3.0
Skaters in a public session on the 400 m track and the 30x60 m rink inside the hall at IJsbaan De Westfries in Hoorn, seen from the stands — IJsbaan De Westfries
Skaters in a public session on the 400 m track and the 30x60 m rink inside the hall at IJsbaan De Westfries in Hoorn, seen from the stands Photo: Optisport, IJsbaan De Westfries Hoorn page · Source

Hoorn's regional ice track, opened in 2006 with the help of 1,600 bondholders

De Westfries has been the ice track at Hoorn since 2006. It lies in the leisure park De Blauwe Berg next to the A7 motorway, a 400-metre oval with a 60 by 30 metre ice hockey rink inside it. The name was chosen because every municipality in West-Friesland contributed financially, to show the track belongs to the whole region. It opened in September 2006, and 259,000 people visited in its first season, 2006/07.

Bondholders helped it exist. Founder Toon Steltenpool, now 90, says the 1,600 holders gave the project the support it needed to open, at a time when the region was full of skating talent with nowhere to skate. By tradition they skate first on the opening evening of each season, and he waits with coffee and hot chocolate.

The track has hosted national championships, among them the supersprint in 2010, the Holland Cup final of 2012/13 and the national youth marathon championship in 2014. A small skating museum with old Frisian skates stands on the grounds and can be visited free.

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 €10.30 per person (€7.50 up to and including age 16), groups of 20 or more pay €7.10 each, and a family card for up to four people costs €30 (at least one adult; an extra person €5).

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Skates & rentals

Skates can be hired at the rink: hockey and figure skates and long-blade speed skates cost €7.50 a pair, and slap and clap skates €10 to €12, up to shoe size 46.

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Booking & check-in

A single-visit ticket can be bought online; the under-17 and family tickets are 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 in front of the building 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.