Ten points of advice:
1. If you visit Den Haag for a few days, I'd advise to use one whole day for Deflt (35 min tram-ride) from Haag.
2. Skip using a car. Take tram number 1 from Den Haag (it's on the interior of the Haag-circle), so your 6.50 Euro all-day ticket is good for this location. Get off at Prisenhof, which is about 500 ft prior to the Delt Railway Station. Compass-wise to position yourself....everything of significance is mostly east of your drop-off point, or along Phonix Street. The ONLY thing west of the street worth checking out is the Wilhelminapark (maybe a 7-min walk straight southwest). Beyond that....stay on the east side of the tracks.
3. Two minutes walking from the drop-off, going east...is the Stedelijik Museum....which is the William of Orange Museum. If you do your reading, this is the Dutch guy who makes everything the way it is today.
4. If you stick along the two canals running north and south....the bulk of the old city can be seen and you won't get lost.
5. All total along the old city.....there's probably fifty pubs or beer-gardens. Make good use of them.
6. The place on a hot day is the Beesten Market Square, with at least a dozen pubs around the square and completely covered with trees and shade. Fantastic ribs joint on the south end of the square and worth late afternoon dinner.
7. At the end of the old city area is a 'harbor' of sorts. If you did go past that point (it's called Zuidkolk), there are two important features of town. One is the major university (8-min walk) and the Royal Deft (the pottery shop).
8. Walking this town in the winter months would be harsh and ill-advised. This is the kind of city you ought to visit from April to September.
9. There is a fair amount of construction going on in town, be aware of that.
10. There are at least forty tourist-related restaurants in town. It doesn't mean they are all four-star or such
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