Dutch Countryside Tour: Windmills and Cheese

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Immerse yourself in Dutch culture on this Amsterdam day tour. Explore the picturesque villages of Volendam, Edam, and Zaanse Schans, visit windmills, taste delicious cheese, and learn about clog making.

Duration: 5 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Zaanse Schans - Begin your journey at the charming windmill village of Zaanse Schans, where you can marvel at operational windmills and traditional wooden houses. Witness a clog maker in action, crafting the renowned wooden shoes of the Netherlands.
Volendam - The next destination is the picturesque fishing village of Volendam. After a…

What's Included

Amsterdam Canal Cruise Voucher (if option selected) will be handed out at check-in
Multi-Lingual Guided tour of Zaanse Schans, Edam and Volendam
Visit a clog (wooden shoe) maker
Live commentary on bus
Tasting of a local cheese with a visit at a cheese farm

What's Not Included

Food and drinks
Gratuities
Entry fee to the windmills at the Zaanse Schans

Additional Information

Embrace your adventurous spirit and discover the Dutch Countryside in elegance! Participate in our 5-hour guided tour, the perfect getaway from Amsterdam’s hustle and bustle. Enter a storybook setting at Zaanse Schans, where windmills share stories of the past. Find peace in the seaside village of Volendam. Enhance your journey with an Amsterdam Canal…

Location

De Ruijterkade 105

De Ruijterkade

Tour Company, De Ruijterkade 105, 1011 AB Amsterdam. Check-in closes 15 minutes before the start of the tour! Our meeting point is only a 6-minute walk from the Amsterdam Central Station. Our office is located inside the restaurant. We recommend to use Google Maps for the most accurate directions.

Cancellation Policy

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

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Lodewijkb2013

Nov 5, 2024

Recommended tour - The tour was very informative and relaxed, we had enough time to see all the important typical Dutch highlights. Our tour guide was very professional with a lot of knowledge about the places we visited. This is a very highly recommended tour!

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Venture03398721304

Nov 5, 2024

Great! - Wonderfull experience and charming villages. Great guide and driver. Meeting point was easy to find! excelent at all!

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Helen_j

Oct 31, 2024

Great trip to experience the older side of Netherland culture - Great day - enjoyed it all and my 12 year old did too. Good balance of activities. Nice amount of time spent at each place.

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Maipelo_m

Oct 29, 2024

Recommendable trip - It was a good trip, Zaanse Schans was quite memorable, the windmills looked beautiful, there was a nice smell of cocoa in the air, I had some hot chocolate there it was great. Volendam was quite picturesque, I had a seafood platter there it was very tasty.

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Lori_m

Oct 15, 2024

Beautiful countryside and villages - Great tour and tour guide. Loved the fishing village. Wish we could have spent more time there because lunch took away from shopping. The windmills were very cool to see as well as learning about how to make cheese and how clogs are made. 6 1/2 hrs was perfect. Bus ride was only 30 mins.

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Dian_a

Oct 1, 2024

Great introduction to Amsterdam and the Dutch countryside. - The guide continuouisly gave us great narration about the countryside on the transportation coach as well as during the walking tours. She was informative and engaging and an invaluable asset to the experience.

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Pauline_s

Nov 2, 2024

This is a 1/2 day trip in... - This is a 1/2 day trip in the morning and you will see a cheese & shoe making demonstration. Then you have free time to take pictures with the windmills before hoping on a bus to Vollendam, a seaside town where you have 1hr free time.

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Dalia_l

Oct 9, 2024

As expected - Lots of stops with a good tour guide. Comfortable bus. The tour takes longer than it shows on Viator, so don't plan anything afterwards.

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Rachel_h

Nov 1, 2024

It's fine for the price - I will preface my review by saying that since I took the tour, the company has changed the itinerary and dropped one stop (Edam) and changed which cheese shop/dairy farm they visit. So keep that in mind. Overall, this was a pretty average tour: not outstanding but not bad, either. Our guide was fine, but the overall level of commentary throughout the different stops was pretty basic. Our first stop of the tour was at a Henry Zwilling cheese shop for a demonstration that was, quite frankly, very disappointing. The woman from the shop stood around a collection of their equipment and spoke for maybe two minutes before ushering us into the shop to buy cheese. From there we went to Edam, which was a lovely town to walk around. I wish we had had more time there to wander around the town, because it looked charming, but this was a very short stop before moving on to Volendam. We really only stopped at a church and the central square for a few minutes each. In Volendam, we were dropped off at the boardwalk and told we had more than an hour to explore and eat lunch. We didn't get any walking tour/guided experience in Volendam, which would have been nice. As a lunch stop, it was a pretty commercial area, but fine. Our final stop was Zaanse Schans, where it was cool to walk around the windmills, but admission wasn't included with the tour so you had to pay separately if you wanted to go in. All in all, the tour was an OK value, if for no other reason than it got you easy transportation to these three different places. It looks like they've dropped Edam from the itinerary, without a corresponding drop in price, so I'm not sure it's such a value anymore. If you want a quick hit of the Dutch countryside, this is an OK way to do that. If you're looking for a healthy dose of authenticity or in-depth commentary, this might not be for you.

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Trip158431

Oct 6, 2024

I wouldn't recommend it, sorry! - I wouldn't recommend this tour to anyone. Firstly, we were too many people and it was difficult to listen to Eva since she didn't use a voice amplifier when she explained things outside of the bus. As a feedback to your company, you should be more transparent about the languages. Although me and my wife speak good English, we booked the Spanish speaking one and as a customer I would not expect it to be both in English and Spanish. And here is the issue, the guide -Eva- speaks an excellent English, but her Spanish is very broken, to the point that I could barely understand what she meant in Spanish because most of the time was unintelligible. Poor grammar, poor pronunciation and even made up words, for instance, she translated cranes as "cranos", which does not exist in Spanish. Overall, it made it very confused due to her broken Spanish and any person would struggle to follow the explanations in that language. Also, it is very clear that the only purpose of the cheese factory is to sell products, which I did because they were great and I like supporting such family businesses, but at least spend more than five minutes explaining how the factory works. In conclusion, I would not recommend it.

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