FAQ

Both on arrival and departure, it is easy to use a taxi or Uber. Right next to the forecourt of Rotterdam Ahoy, there is a designated pick-up and drop-off zone, allowing visitors to be brought and collected quickly and conveniently.

There are several hotels available around Rotterdam Ahoy in different price ranges. Through our hotel map, you can easily find the accommodation that best suits your visit to Maintenance NEXT. You can directly filter by location, price and availability

Public Transport
Ahoy is located just a 5-minute walk from the Zuidplein metro and bus station. For more information about public transport, please visit www.9292ov.nl and www.ret.nl.
Please note that you will need an OV-chipkaart to use public transport in Rotterdam. A disposable card for 2 metro rides can be easily purchased at Rotterdam Central Station near the metro entrance. You can also order an OV-chipkaart via the RET webshop at www.ret.nl, where you’ll find additional information about traveling with the OV-chipkaart.

Parking at Rotterdam Ahoy
Rotterdam Ahoy offers 2,500 parking spaces. To ensure a parking spot on event days, you can purchase a parking ticket in advance. This reserved parking space next to Ahoy costs €19.50. Purchasing a general parking ticket in advance is not necessary. Additionally, the barrier will open automatically when you arrive with a pre-booked parking spot and exit at the end of your visit. On the day of the event, the reserved parking ticket is valid from 05:00 AM to 05:00 AM the next day.

Important: If the parking lot is full, show your ticket to the traffic coordinator to gain access.

If the parking lot is full and you have not reserved a spot, you can park at Q-Park Zuidplein or another nearby parking garage.

Rotterdam Ahoy is less than an hour away from Schiphol Amsterdam Airport and Rotterdam The Hague Airport. From both airports you can travel to Ahoy quickly and comfortably on public transport and by car.

Plan your journey by public transport
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Maintenance NEXT takes place from 20 to 22 April 2027 at Rotterdam Ahoy. Want to be the first to know? Click here to subscribe to the newsletter.

The main themes during Maintenance NEXT are:
- Technology
- Innovation
- Sustainability

When entering, you will receive a parking ticket. The system at the barrier registers your license plate and prints it on the ticket. You can pay your parking ticket at the payment machines at any time during the day. When exiting, the barrier opens automatically through license plate recognition.

If you have purchased a parking ticket in advance, you must scan it when entering. When exiting, the barrier opens automatically through license plate recognition.

At the moment, Rotterdam Ahoy does not have charging stations. It is therefore not possible to charge electric cars on the Rotterdam Ahoy parking facilities. Of course, we are thinking about the future and investing in sustainable solutions.

A parking ticket for the Rotterdam Ahoy parking area costs €19.50.

Would you like a parking ticket with a parking guarantee? You pay the same rate. When exiting, the barrier opens automatically.

Book parking guarantee

The parking lot of Rotterdam Ahoy has room for 2500 cars.

Booking guaranteed parking

If you have not purchased a parking ticket with parking guarantee and the parking lot is full upon arrival, we will refer you to the covered Zuidplein parking garage (a different rate applies here). Or you can use the various P+R facilities, including at the Slinge and Capelsebrug metro stations.

Rotterdam Ahoy offers various facilities for visitors with reduced mobility. At the main entrance, there is a taxi drop-off point where visitors with reduced mobility can be set down. In addition, the large parking area offers spacious disabled parking spaces, including spaces directly next to the main entrance. The regular parking rate of €19.50 per day applies.

Smoking, including e-smoking and vaping, is not permitted inside Rotterdam Ahoy. Smoking is only allowed in the designated smoking areas.

Yes, free Wi-Fi is available in the Plaza. You can connect to the network 'Ahoy FREE WIFI’.

Lost something during your visit to Rotterdam Ahoy? All lost property is registered through iLost.

Please check iLost first to see if your item has been found. If your item is not listed, it has unfortunately either not been found or has not yet been handed in.

As all lost property is handled exclusively through iLost, we are unable to provide any additional information by phone or email.

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We are glad to hear that you want to participate as an exhibitor! Have you chosen from our stand options already? Do you need some help or do you want more information? Please contact our account manager Tomas Wiercx for availablity, prices and other information.

Pay attention to Expo Guide, Fair Guide, Event Fair / The Exhibitors Index and International Fairs Directory
On a regular base  Rotterdam Ahoy receives questions or complaints from exhibitors who are approached by:  the Austrian company Construct Data (Fair Guide), Expo Guide from Mexico (with an address in France), Event Fair / The Exhibitors Index from Slovakia (Bratislava) and International Fairs Directory (MULPOR Company S.A. from Uruguay). We very much like to emphasise, there is absolutely no cooperation with or solidarity between Rotterdam Ahoy and Expo Guide, Fair Guide, Event Fair / The Exhibitors Index and International Fairs Directory!

Expo Guide
Expo Guide sends out letters to companies with a form to correct  data for an listing in Expo Guide. After signing the letter/form, companies have to pay a considerable annual  amount for a number of time and are expected to  pay for something that is not clear at all.

Event Fair / The exhibitors Index
Event Fair sends out letters to companies with a request to verify and correct  data for a free website listing. However, together with this letter a form is sent. After signing the form, the listing is transformed into an advertisement and companies must  to pay a considerable annual amount for a number of time.

Fair Guide
This letter comes from the Austrian company Construct Data, suggestsing to be mentioned for corrections for an listing in FAIR Guide and a registration via the website to keep  company data up to date. In this case companies also have to pay a considerable annual  amount for a number of time, after signing the letter.

International Fairs Directory
This form comes from the company Connect Publisher (Mexico) or MULPOR Company S.A. (Uruguay), also asking to make  corrections for a registration on www.inter-fairs.com.  By signing the form, it appears not to be a registration but an advertisement, for which the signing company also needs  to pay a considerable amount. 

If you, as an exhibitor, would like to make use of the possibility to have your data mentioned in Fair Guide, Expo Guide, Event Fair or International Fairs Guide, this is something we cannot decide for you. However we would  like to emphasize, that the data mentioned in Fair Guide, Expo Guide, Event Fair and International Fairs Directory, only contains data from companies that have registered with payment, voluntary or not. Besides, we suspect Construct Data copies address data of exhibitors from former fair catalogues and fair related websites.

Again we insure you that Rotterdam Ahoy does not cooperate with Construct Data in any way, and did not supply any data from our exhibitors.

We hope to have informed you well with the explanation above. Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us..

More information is also available on the website of UFI.