Solo travel

Leiden is a student city. It's overall very safe, but like everywhere else during the night in some places, you need to be more sharp. It has many museums and is called museum city. The botanical garden is very pretty from the end of March until the end of September. It has a cafe but you can also do a picnic. It's very pretty and located in the middle of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. You can walk everywhere, you don't need to take a bus. In 30 mins, you can be at the beach too (Katwijk or Noordwijk). There are no hostels and the food is also expensive.

Leiden si very safe city. It's small and at night it's usually quiet, not many people outside. There are street lights, not sketchy places etc. I feel safe here even going out at night, I sometimes go for a run around midnight and I have never felt threatened.

very safe!! It is always a little sus on nights out but have never had an issue in the 1.5 years I’ve been here. Lots of fireworks at nighttime which is the main crime and I have heard of pickpockets.

Very safe for women who are travelling solo. The only thing I would advise women who are travelling solo is that when you go out at night, make sure you are safe on your way back to your hostel, hotel or host. Personally I would like to be sober enough to stay vigilant, and I prefer someone to walk me home at night. Also I would go home at night on my bike because I live very close to the city centre, but I wouldn't recommend biking all the way through the suburbs or another town at night. Generally Leiden is very safe, but I would advise to take these little precautions to avoid an incident with the rare crazy individual that you can encounter anywhere around the world.