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Giethoorn and Zaanse Schans Small-Group Day Tour
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Giethoorn and Zaanse Schans Tour with Small Electric Boat Trip

Giethoorn and Zaanse Schans Trip from Amsterdam with Boat Tour

By Cherry Travel & Tours
4.2 out of 5
Free cancellation available
Price is 1 622 kr per adult
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 9h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Explore the top two sightseeing attractions near Amsterdam in one day. Visit idyllic canal village ''Dutch Venice'' Giethoorn, cruise around Giethoorn on a small electric boat guided by our friendly guide. You may navigate the boat for a real local lifestyle experience, at no extra cost, no hassle, no squeezing in a big boat, enjoy the perfect view with the open boat.

Touring in a unique lifestyle in a Dutch village without main roads, discovering each and every unique charming thatched-roof farmhouses and arch shaped wooden bridges.

Guided tour in Zaanse Schans in traditional clog factory and try out wooden shoes with demonstration, cheese factory with demonstration and free tasting, windmills, diamond factory with demonstration.

Admire distinctive architecture green wooden houses along River Zaan, at the most instagrammable photo spot. Appreciate the lifestyle of a typical 18th/19th-century Dutch village. A complete day tour while you are near Amsterdam!

Activity location

  • Zaanse Schans
    • Schansend 1,
    • 1509 AW, Zaandam, The Netherlands

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Hotel NH Collection Amsterdam Barbizon Palace
    • 59-72 Prins Hendrikkade
    • 1012 AD, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

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Giethoorn and Zaanse Schans Trip from Amsterdam with Boat Tour
  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h9h
  • English

Explore the top two sightseeing attractions near Amsterdam in one day. Visit idyllic canal village ''Dutch Venice'' Giethoorn, cruise around Giethoorn on a small electric boat guided by our friendly guide. You may navigate the boat for a real local lifestyle experience, at no extra cost, no hassle, no squeezing in a big boat, enjoy the perfect view with the open boat.

Touring in a unique lifestyle in a Dutch village without main roads, discovering each and every unique charming thatched-roof farmhouses and arch shaped wooden bridges.

Guided tour in Zaanse Schans in traditional clog factory and try out wooden shoes with demonstration, cheese factory with demonstration and free tasting, windmills, diamond factory with demonstration.

Admire distinctive architecture green wooden houses along River Zaan, at the most instagrammable photo spot. Appreciate the lifestyle of a typical 18th/19th-century Dutch village. A complete day tour while you are near Amsterdam!

Starting time: 09:30
Price details
1 621,81 kr x 1 Adult1 621,81 kr
Total
Price is 1 621,81 kr
Until Tue, 28 May
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What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedBoat trip on a small electric boat in Giethoorn, guided and drive your own boat experience.
  • What's includedWhat's includedProfessional guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedGuided tour in Zaanse Schans windmill village.
  • What's includedWhat's includedGuided tour in cheese factory, Zaanse Schans.
  • What's includedWhat's includedTour coach or van
  • What's includedWhat's includedGuided tour in diamond factory, Zaanse Schans.
  • What's includedWhat's includedGuided tour in wooden shoes factory, Zaanse Schans.
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedLunch

Know before you book

  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • If you come with luggage, strollers, or bulk items, please inform tour operator Cherry Travel & Tours in advance.
  • If you arrive at the meeting point without notifying of your extra items, luggage, strollers, we cannot accommodate it and you cannot join the tour, you will not get refund.
  • Children younger than 12 years need car seats, infants need baby chair provided by you.
  • Cancellations within 24 hours due to failure to inform tour operator for special arrangement will not get refund.
  • Infant with less than 6 years old, we do not recommend this tour.
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Zaanse Schans
  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
Visit Zaanse Schans traditional wooden windmills and distinctive green wooden houses which were relocated there to recreate the atmosphere of an 18th/19th-century village. Duration is about 1.5 hours including visits with demonstrations at cheese factory and wooden shoes factory. Photo stop at the bank of Zaan River for the best panoramic view of all the windmills.
Kooijman Souvenirs & Clogs Wooden Shoe Workshop
  • 20m
(This part is included in Zaanse Schans) Visit wooden shoes factory to learn about history of traditional Dutch clogs. Attend a workshop with demonstration of how clogs are made. Try fitting wooden shoes to have a feeling of wearing wooden shoes. Some free time for souvenirs shopping.
Catharina Hoeve Cheese Farm
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket included
(This part is included in Zaanse Schans) Attend a professional demonstration of quality cheese-making by the staff in traditional Dutch costumes. Followed by free tasting of a wide cheese selection, and other typical Dutch treats. Free time for Dutch delights shopping.
IJsselmeer (Lake IJssel) (Pass by)
On the way to Giethoorn, enjoy interesting facts and stories from our friendly guides pointing out of significant sights including the largest artificial lake in the Netherlands - IJsselmeer. IJsselmeer is a closed off inland bay, bordered by the Afsluitdijk (Enclosing Dike) which is the largest dike in the Netherlands with 32KM long, constructed during 1927-1932, being part of the Delta Works, Seven Modern Wonders. We will also pass by Ketelbrug, it is a bridge also a dike to get a good feeling of a dike. Unlike the largest one Enclosing dike, it is only 800-metre-long (2,600 ft) bridge opened on 15 June 1970.
Giethoorn
  • 3h 30m
Discover a Dutch village only accessible by boat on a day trip to Giethoorn from Amsterdam. Experience the "Venice of the Netherlands" where there are no main roads and all transport is on the water of the many canals. Take 1-hour small electric boat (9 people maximum) led by our friendly guide cruising around the village. Be your own captain, you can even drive the boat to experience a real local lifestyle. See the unique traditional thatch-roof cottages connected to arch-shape wooden bridges (there are over 150 arch-shape wooden bridges in the Giethoorn).

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESZaanse Schans
    • Schansend 1,
    • 1509 AW, Zaandam, The Netherlands

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEHotel NH Collection Amsterdam Barbizon Palace
    • 59-72 Prins Hendrikkade
    • 1012 AD, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

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