Holiday home · 17 or 18 people
Holiday home for 17 or 18 people
in Drenthe
Nine rooms with private bathrooms, a large kitchen, a living room with bar and a garden with a playground. A holiday home for a week with three families, or a weekend with the whole family.
- Rooms with a private bathroom
- 9
- Nights in a holiday week
- 7
- Per person per night, low-season week
- € 46
- Rooms to spare
- 8
Holiday home for 18
A holiday home for three families
Ruurd Doorten
Owner, Orvelter Hof
A holiday home for 17 or 18 people is usually a house for three families, or for a family with children and grandchildren. Orvelter Hof is a converted Drenthe farmhouse in Witteveen, set up for groups of up to 36, which you also rent in full when there are eighteen of you.
You sleep in nine twin rooms, each with its own toilet, shower and basin. The large hall, the living room with bar, the kitchen, the games attic and the garden are yours. There are no other guests.
With seventeen, everything is the same: one room becomes a single. On a holiday of a whole week, the space is what makes the difference. Everyone can retreat for a while, and you notice that most on day four.
Layout
Nine rooms, three families
The first floor has eleven twin rooms, the ground floor six. With eighteen people you use nine of them. This is how you can divide them.
9 of the 11 rooms upstairs
Everyone upstairs
The whole group sleeps on the first floor. Downstairs stays free for what you do during the day.
3 × 3 rooms
A corner for each family
Three families of six each get three rooms together. Anyone who would rather avoid the stairs sleeps downstairs; Zwigelte has an adapted, wheelchair-accessible bathroom.
Room for a week
Eight rooms to spare
Over a week, the luggage piles up. An empty room then becomes a playroom, a place for the buggies or a quiet room for an afternoon nap.
Every room has box-spring beds and its own toilet, shower and basin. Four rooms on the ground floor can also be used as family rooms, and a cot can be added for € 7.50.
See the floor planA week's holiday
What a week here makes possible
A weekend is soon over. In a week you have time for the surroundings, for a day of doing nothing and for an evening when everyone goes their own way.
- 01
Playground and games attic
A playground with a bouncy castle next to the terrace, and a games attic with table tennis for the rainy days.
- 02
A kitchen for eighteen
A professional kitchen with dishwashers. A different family at the stove each evening is easily done over a week.
- 03
Nature nearby
Woods and heathland a five-minute walk away, the Dwingelderveld half an hour's drive.
- 04
By bike
Orvelte and Zoo Bizar are within cycling distance. A week is long enough to get to know the area by bike.
What it costs
A week for eighteen
You rent the whole house for one price. Alongside is a seven-night week for eighteen people in the 2027 low season, with all compulsory costs.
In mid-season the rent for a week is € 5,400, in high season € 5,900. If you would like a shorter stay, you can also book a midweek (from € 188 per person) or a weekend (from € 216 per person).
Per night, a week is the cheapest: the rent is lower than that of two weekends and a midweek put together.
All rates and seasonsExample calculation · 18 people
- Rent: week (7 nights), low season 2027
- € 4,200.00
- Final cleaning
- € 425.00
- Bed linen, 18 × € 14.50
- € 261.00
- Energy, 18 × 7 nights × € 3.95
- € 497.70
- Tourist tax, 18 × 7 nights × € 2.95
- € 371.70
- Total
- € 5,755.40
€ 320
Per person, 7 nights
€ 46
Per person per night
Including 21% VAT and wifi. Not included: the € 350 deposit (returned after departure) and optional extras such as towels, a kitchen pack or catering.
Sample week
A week with three families, in outline
No fixed programme, but an idea of how seven days might go. Anything with a price can be booked with us as an extra.
Days 1 and 2
- 17:00
- Arrival. The children discover the playground, the adults share out the rooms.
- Day 2
- Cycle to Orvelte: the museum village with workshops, and Zoo Bizar.
- Evening
- Family one cooks for everyone.
Days 3 to 5
- Day 3
- To Wildlands in Emmen, a twenty-minute drive.
- Day 4
- A day of nothing: reading on the terrace, table tennis in the games attic.
- Day 5
- A walk in the Dwingelderveld or along the Boomkroonpad in Drouwen.
Days 6 and 7
- Day 6
- Barbecue on the terrace; gas and cleaning cost € 35.
- Day 7
- Breakfast buffet for everyone (€ 14.50 per person), so nobody is in the kitchen on the last morning.
- Departure
- Pack up and head home. We do the final cleaning.
Days out
A week is long enough for all of Drenthe
Within half an hour's drive are Wildlands, the Hunebedcentrum in Borger, the Boomkroonpad in Drouwen and the Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre.
Closer by are Orvelte, the Orvelterzand and De Boskamp swimming pool in Westerbork. The page about the surroundings lists everything, with the distances.
- Wildlands 20 minutes away
- Orvelte within cycling distance
- Hunebedcentrum 23 minutes away
- Woods and heathland from the door
Frequently asked questions
About a holiday home for 18 people
Yes. There are 17 twin rooms with private bathrooms; with eighteen people you use nine of them. You rent the whole house, so the halls, the kitchen and the garden are yours.
A seven-night week in the 2027 low season costs € 5,755 including all compulsory charges, about € 320 per person. A weekend in the same period comes to € 216 per person.
Yes. As well as a weekend, long weekend and midweek, we also let by the week. Per night, that is the cheapest. The rates page lists the prices for each season.
Yes. There is a playground with a bouncy castle next to the terrace, a games attic and a volleyball court. The yard is car-free once everyone has parked. A cot costs € 7.50.
Orvelte and Zoo Bizar are within cycling distance, Wildlands in Emmen is a twenty-minute drive. There are also the Hunebedcentrum, the Boomkroonpad, the Dwingelderveld and the Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre.
No. For reasons of hygiene and the allergies of later guests, pets are not allowed.
A week with all eighteen of you
Check the booking module to see which weeks are free, or let us know when you would like to come. You will receive a proposal covering the rent and the additional costs.