It really is beautiful, but 19 euros for a park with well designed flowers?! We were there on May 2 and it was ridiculously crowded, it becomes tough to enjoy the flowers when you can move without tripping over other shutter-happy tourists. Luckily I have a good solution - when you get there rent a bike instead (there is a Mac Bike shop across from the entrance) and do your own tour of the tulip fields. The Keukenhof isn't actually the fields - its a park. If you take a bike around and do your own tour, you have an open, leisurely and beautiful tour of the breaktaking flower fields and as an added bonus its inexpensive (8,50 euros). If you have the cash might as well do both and make a day of it but if you are on a budget renting a bike is much more fun and lasts much longer. Enjoy!

If you like flowers, this is the place for you.
You can pay 13,5 euros to visit keukenhof and look at many interesting compositions or, maybe better, rent a bike and take a tour into the flower fields.
Very nice in april

Just came back from Amsterdam. Was in Keukenhof on 30 April. Things you'll need to know:
1. the VVV Amsterdam Tourist Information office (operated just opposite the Centraal Station in city centre) offers a joint ticket at the cost of Euro19.00, including the admission ticket (@13.50 Euro) and the bus connection from the city to the Garden). I didn't do this though, because I wasn't sure if I will definitely go.
2. I saw someone said it's over crowded with many tourist buses. Maybe he/she's got a point, but I went in the afternoon, at around 3pm, and it was not too crowded. By the time I left at 6pm, it was very tranquil and peaceful. So maybe you can consider going later in the day to avoid the crowd.
3. "how many tulips can I see?" I can see that the owner of this place tries to give the flowers (not just tulips but majority are) different times to bloom so the garden can justify to operate in a span of two months every year. At the time I was there, IT WAS BRILLIANTLY BEAUTIFUL! 90% of the flowers are either yet to blossom (20% of them) or are just blossomy now (80% of them), only 10% of the total is already gone.
4. It's not a big place -- if u just walk around the whole place without stopping it'd probably take about 1hr or so, but if you really like the flowers you'll find evne 3 hrs are not enough!
5. the reasons I'm giving only 4 stars instead of 5 stars are 1) public transportation wise it's not very convinient and 2) Euro 13.50 is bit too expensive.

I visited Keukenhof on 9 and 12 of April. A wonderful land!
It was not a lot of people at that time. Most of bulbs were blooming. I think a week or two later and I would not seen flowering tulips in the Willem Alexander Pavilion.

I used to come from Amsterdam via Schiphol.
On my second visit I had been waiting for an hour to buy a combi-ticket at the VVV office in the airport when the office women told the queue that the tikets is over and we need to wait for an hour more till they would be delivered from the Amsterdam office. So I prefered to pay for the bus by my strippen-card and buy a ticket at the park entrance.