Private Guided Tour: Zaanse Schans and Zaandam from Amsterdam
Description
Enjoy a day trip to the enchanting region of Zaanse Schans and Zaandam on a private guided tour. Start your journey from Amsterdam and explore the enchanting little village of Zaanse Schans, full of traditional crafts, wind mills and old wooden houses and the charming city of Zaandam.
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Itinerary
Travel comfortably and directly to world-famous Zaanse Schans, a small village full of green wooden houses, workshops and industrial windmills.
Learn more about wooden shoes, clogs, and see how they are made by attending a clog making demonstration. Enjoy some time here to see the clogs, try on some clogs, shop and to take pictures
Visit a former cheese farm where you will be explained about how Dutch Gouda cheeses are made. After the explanation, try more than 25 different cheeses at the cheese shop.
Visit a working industrial windmill. Learn how these incredible machines boosted the local economy and experience how powerful these machines can be.
Visit Zaandam city center to learn more about its history from your tour guide. Enjoy an included lunch here as well
Visit the house where Russian czar Peter the Great stayed during his time in Zaandam in 1697 to learn about ship building. The wooden house is fully preserved and open to visit.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
For pickup from Amsterdam airport Schiphol, an additional charge of EUR 50,00 will be charged. If your preferred pick up place is not listed, this will be possible. Please contact us.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Comfortable walking shoes are recommended
- Please provide your hotel pickup information at time of booking, refer to voucher for details
Reviews(4)
This tour was very interesting. The area is of Zaandam is just beautiful and everything you expect. Just a couple of points to note. You are picked up from your hotel by a driver in a van who is not your tour guide. The driver takes you to a meeting place where you meet up with the guide. This was a little off putting when you didnt know about it. Secondly its a very busy area for tourists. The clog making factory was packed even though we went early. So be aware its a very busy area. The guide we had was a young lady (whose name i cant remember) who was very knowledgeable and informative. Its mainly a walking tour around Zaandam and the windmills. Then you catch a small boat to your lunch desitnation. Have lunch and then the boat takes you to another part of Zaandam where you walk around some more and then meet up with the van driver who takes you back to you hotel. Really do recommend this tour if you want to see classic Amsterdam and some windmills.
4 of us who took this private tour could not have been more pleased. Six-seven hour private tour with automobile pick-up and drop-off at our Amsterdam hotel. We first had a great walking tour of the Zaanse Schans Dutch historic area; while it was filled with tourists (late August), it was enjoyable nonetheless. Then we had a private and interesting boat tour (about 30 minutes)j; very lovely sights. Stopped in Zaandam - interesting city. Saw a museum which had Monet reproductions of the many paintings he made of the area, a tour of the Peter the Great home, and then a lovely lunch (included in price) in Zaandam. Price very reasonable. Knowledgeable and friendly English-fluent guides. Strongly recommend.
Our guide and coach took us to the windmills, cheese factory, harbours and clog factory with very little fuss. In most places we walked which was very refreshing and particularly where we went along the back streets to many of the features in our tour. A great day with lots of sights and good informantion. Loved it
<p>very educational, beautiful and very good organized.Maika is great.</p>
