75-minute Amsterdam Canal Cruise: Discover Historic City Center with Blue Boat Company

Embark on a 75-minute Amsterdam Canal Cruise with Blue Boat Company and discover the historic city center. Enjoy stunning views, learn about Amsterdam’s history, and indulge in snacks and drinks. Perfect for families!

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

Blue Boat Company - Amsterdam is best viewed from the water. On this 75-minute canal cruise you’ll experience the best of our historical city.

What's Included
  • Snackbox with choice of sweet & savory items plus a drink
  • Multilingual audio commentary available in 19 languages
  • Special ‘Kids Cruise’ audio story and booklet included with children’s tickets
  • Enjoy a 75-minute scenic Canal Cruise
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

The top attraction in Amsterdam and a must-see for first-time visitors to this stunning capital!
Amsterdam is best appreciated from the water, and this 75-minute canal cruise will show you why. You’ll get to see the finest parts of the historic city center.
Explore the city’s main highlights, iconic bridges, and the 17th-century buildings that line the…

Location
Stadhouderskade 550
Stadhouderskade
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Myron_n
Sep 25, 2024
beyond awesome. - was the most awesomest trip ever. so much fun. best cruise yet. you must give it a try. best in summer though. and the guide is very nice and food awesome.
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Barneymum
Jul 31, 2024
Fabulous way to enjoy Amsterdam - We have used this company before and this trip was just as good. We had a trainee captain being supervised and he provided extra commentary to the ear phones. Blue Boats is an excellent trip and we will definitely go on them again.
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638jub
Jul 28, 2024
Good value - enjoyable and informative. - A really enjoyable and good value activity. The audio guide worked perfectly and we saw a huge area of Amsterdam from the small canals up to Amsterdam Centraal. Refreshments are available.
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Alexandra
Jul 24, 2024
Great tour - Canal cruise with Blue Boats, 75 minutes. Very nice tour with audio guide through the city center and the port of Amsterdam
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Clemence20162016
Jul 22, 2024
cruise with Audio Guide in French. - We did 2 canal cruises with 2 different companies and we preferred the 75 min cruise with the blue boat company. Be careful, there are several boats that look the same. This one had a very nice captain and we were given headphones to listen in French. The other boat was a 90mn cruise but everything in English and Dutch and we could hear nothing because of the noise of travelers nearby. Award was the same , 22 euros per person.
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Sryan95177
Jul 19, 2024
Great tour of the canals and harbor - We really enjoyed our boat/canal tour. Inside the boat are multiple rows of tables with benches facing the tables. Basically seating for approximately 4 adults facing each other at each table. You are given headphones which plug in at the table, choose your language, and there are short blurbs throughout the ride which review history or some information on what you are seeing. We had a great time and found this adventure relaxing and informative.
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594ellal
Nov 2, 2024
Canal Cruise - It was good you see a lots of places and they give you earphones with a tour spokesman. However it was an hour and not 75 minutes, so we did lose the last 15 minutes that we payed for. Also didn’t point out Anne Frank’s house. Pleasant boat captain:)
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Jennifer_d
Oct 16, 2024
Great for kids, a few tweaks to improve - Very kid friendly, my 6 yr old loved the bust kit and the collapsible binoculars will be useful for other activities on our vacation. It was occasionally difficult to figure out which buildings the audio tour was referring to in the tour. Boat captain was easy to understand and engaging. The snack kit was a nice add on for our family, but not cheese as I had understood from the description somehow.
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Jeff_m
Aug 15, 2024
A nice tour through the canals of Amsterdam under cover. - This was a nice daytime tour through the some of the Amsterdam canals. We had already done a night tour and this was the perfect compliment to that tour. What was also nice is they had headphones and a prerecorded guide spoke about the sites we were seeing as we passed by. The prerecorded guide was available in multiple languages. Unlike some of the boats, this boat also had cover which was needed to prevent too much sun exposure.
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Andra_a
Oct 15, 2024
Boat: OK. Narration: Not great - If you just want to ride a boat through the canals of Amsterdam, this is probably ok (and may be the most cost effective option). But if you are looking for real information about what you are seeing, try a tour with a live guide. This one has an audio track that is not so great and a lot of times it is even difficult to figure our which building/landmark they are talking about.
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From $17
up to 10 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).