Well, two more committee members to meet with, then defense...but yes, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it's near.
oy, that's a little scary right now. do you know that the hague has more expensive apartments than boston? yeah. didn't think it's possible but it is. i'll have to find an apartment within days once i get there, literally with suitcase in my hand and nothing else. can't be done online, rental agencies don't allow that. meanwhile i can't afford lounging around in hotels. should be fun.
Someone should have paid for a trip out to apartment hunt.
Can you get a sense of neighborhoods and prices online?
Eek, I see what you mean..
wow
beautiful
but pricey
http://amsterdam.craigslist.org/apa/758367961.html
how can $750 euros/mo be a good deal?
http://amsterdam.craigslist.org/sub/759633063.html
this could be all right on a short-term basis?
http://amsterdam.craigslist.org/roo/762742737.html
(can you tell fri night is my craigslist night?)
ha! the person renting out this space is in Boston
http://amsterdam.craigslist.org/roo/740186096.html
beth! i didn't know hague went on craigslist! awesome!
the last one looks good, even if i get it fora month and then move, at least i'd have time to really look around. craigslist is way better than agencies, at least i can talk to owners. thanks!
I'm still amazed that Tanya (in Boston) has a place in Den Haag to rent out.
One mile to the beach!
i know. i'm emailing her as we speak.
dagmaraka wrote:oy, that's a little scary right now. do you know that the hague has more expensive apartments than boston? yeah. didn't think it's possible but it is. i'll have to find an apartment within days once i get there, literally with suitcase in my hand and nothing else. can't be done online, rental agencies don't allow that. meanwhile i can't afford lounging around in hotels. should be fun.
You could try
couchsurfing for a while. There are 369 registered couch surfers at The Hague.
i would much rather have my own studio if i can even remotely afford it. i'll try.
Den Haag group on couchsurfing.
http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=1355
one of the threads on couchsurfing Den Haag group has this information.
and this...
The prices for a holiday home is between 700 - 800,- for 1 week. Check;
www.kijkduinpark.nl
www.duinhorst.nl
www.vluchtenburg.nl
http://denhaag.xpatrentals.com/
I also found something through elynx.nl/ when I first arrived here. marktplaats.nl/ is the dutch E-Bay - try searching for "kamer den haag"
There's also funda.nl/ for rentals.
hope this is usefull
thanks!!! you guys are much more helpful than my future colleagues, who sent me links to rental agencies that charge arm and a leg. the last link - the xpatrentals - looks ideal!
Matt Gross of the Frugal Traveler, NYTimes, of whom I'm a fan, mentions couchsurfing fairly often. He seems to have had a least moderate good luck in many places world wide. But then I don't remember his every-single-post over the last few years.
Also..
I figure it would be fun to be close to the heart of the Hague, wherever that is, re the life of the city...
but you're good with the bicycle. You more than perhaps many other visitors might be able to use that to get a fair place a bit further away?
(Probably avoid the town that seems to be named Monster on the map I saw. Or else pick that on purpose.)
found two studios on that xpat website that i inquired about via email. one is in a former hotel, how cool!
I saw that site, I was busy being appalled about expense, but good!
I've lived in the St. Charles Hotel, in '74, which was at some time in the past the St. Mark's Hotel, in Venice, CA. Renovated from a flophouse in the months before my and others' moving in. It was cool. Never sorry I did that.
that cost is CHEAP compared to the websites my unworthy future colleagues sent me.
now all i need is a good gym, an international theatre group, and a boxing and dance studio.
