This year's theme is 'Vacation’. On Saturday at 9.30 a.m., the annual Flower Parade will leave Noordwijk to travel its 40-km route, along the main roads, to arrive in Haarlem about 9.00 p.m. The procession will comprise of twenty large floats and more than thirty decorated luxury cars, interspersed with marching bands. There will be plenty of space on the roadside for the hundreds of thousands of spectators who always congregate along the route.
Friday evening there will be an illuminated parade in Noordwijkerhout. The parade and floats will also be illuminated in Haarlem on the evening of Saturday and they will remain on view in Haarlem on Sunday till 7.00 p.m.