Zaanse Schans Windmills, Volendam: Small-Group Countryside Tour from Amsterdam

Experience the best of the Dutch countryside on this award-winning 5.5-hour tour. Visit the iconic Zaanse Schans windmills, explore the charming fishing village of Volendam, taste delicious cheese, watch craftsmen make wooden shoes, and more!

Duration: 5 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Zaanse Schans - The WIndmill village of the Netherlands. The oldes industrial area of europe where the Dutch heritage is shown. We will visit a windmill inside.
  • Irene Hoeve Clogs and Cheese Shop - A family owned farm where clogs are made by hand and Gouda cheeses are produced by hand.
  • Monnickendam - In our opinion the best fishing village around. an old fishing village and away from the masses. Former stinky town because of many smokehouses.
  • Volendam - Or instead of Monnickendam we go to Volendam (its your choice) is one of the top destinations in Holland. The main attraction of Volendam is the old sea dike, a long stretch of colorfully painted houses with eateries, cafes and restaurants.
  • Broek in Waterland - A beautiful Village where rich and famous from the Golden age lived. Here we have a Dutch liquor tasting aswell.
What's Included
  • Taste Dutch fruit wine
  • Explore a traditional windmill village
  • Visit a local farm
  • Guidance from an expert guide
  • Comfortable travel with in-vehicle air conditioning
  • Small-group experience, limited to 8 people
  • Savor a variety of cheeses during a tasting session
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off
Additional Information

PRIZE-WINNING EXCURSION:

Indulge in the abundant offerings of the Dutch rural landscape on this 5.5-hour intimate tour for 8 participants from Amsterdam. Journey in style in our deluxe coach to the traditional fishing hamlets of Volendam, and take a leisure stroll through the globally-renowned windmill settlement of Zaanse Schans. Pay a visit to a cheese factory for sampling, halt at an eatery for lunch, observe artisans construct wooden footwear, and explore the village of Broek - the jewel of Waterland - before unwinding on the return trip to Amsterdam. This event requires participants to be a minimum of 4 years of age.

  • Minimum age 7 years.
Location
Overhoeksplein 51
Overhoeksplein
We will depart in front of the entrance of the this is Holland building. A major landmark is also the ADAM tower. Food and drinks you can get in the morning at Albert Heijn around the corner at adres: Bercylaan 5, 1031 KP Amsterdam Opens at 08:00 CET.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Catherine_s
Jul 25, 2024
Holland Countryside Adventure - Ali was a great tour guide. He was informative, friendly, punctual and experienced. He did a great job of guiding us away from the large crowds by timing our stops to avoid large bus loads of people. I took this tour in November of 2016 and have recommended it to several people.
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Dennis_c
Jul 16, 2024
Windmills & more! - Great tour and guide! Easy to find pickup/dropoff point. Didn’t care for cheese/wooden shoe visit. Everything else was great.
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Kerri_e
Jul 16, 2024
Fabulous tour - Definitely a tour not to miss!! Our tour guide was fabulous! We had a great time seeing the different villages and hearing the history from our tour guide.
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Anilesh_u
Jul 14, 2024
Amazing trip!! - An amazing trip with Ali as our guide. Ali was very cheerful and kept us entertained during the ride to and back with funny stories and info about Netherlands and windmills and dams. He was amazing with keeping kids engaged as well. The place itself was of course very very beautiful with windmills and cows and sheep grazing in the background.
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795janisv
Jul 12, 2024
Great way for agile tour and maximizing your valuable vacation time! - Great to have a small group experience and avoid the tourist throngs. Also our guide and driver was the perfect balance of history and factoids as well as social interaction without being overbearing. It helped break the ice with the other guests. I highly recommend this tour and experience. We visited the dairy farm, cheese factory, wooden shoemaker and of course the windmills. The small group makes it very agile for insertion and extraction from the windmills which were the heaviest tourist draw. It's not that I am anti-social, I'm just not happy with being on a large bus with many people herding our way through the day. Great experience and really helped us maximize our limited time that day before leaving the Netherlands.
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Wendyc2917
Jul 6, 2024
Awesome Tour! - We had such a great time and our tour guide was amazing! So full of interesting information and tidbits about the land, water, and the people. He took extra time to answer all our questions. It was so worth the money!
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Rachel_b
Jul 4, 2024
Small group tour to very touristy spots - Our family enjoyed the personal touch of this small group tour. The guide was knowledgeable about Dutch history and customs which added to the experience. He timed our visits to avoid most of the large tour buses. He stops at the cheese shop, wooden shoe shop and dairy were cut and dried with a demonstration and time to look around. The stop to see the windmills at Zaanse Schans was a 90 minute stop to see the windmills and town. You could easily spend more time there to see more. My son wanted to see inside the windmills, which requires a separate fee of 17.5 euros for all the open windmills. I recommend it for those who are interested in old machines. We didn’t have time to see the rest of the touristy town. This tour was a nice easy thing for us to do after the busy pace the rest of our trip. Our guide was really nice and light hearted.
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Norma_p
Jul 4, 2024
Windmills, and much more - Inside the windmills, automated dairy farm, Monniciendam, clog making machines. It was all excellent.
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April_t
Jul 12, 2024
Windmill Cheese Clogs Cow - The places that this tour takes us are exactly as described and everything you will want to go though a stop at the bakery would have made the tour complete (5 star). Unfortunately , there wasn’t enough time and it was a touch and go tour. Would have been ideal if this is a 1 day tour. We didn’t get to taste Dutch wine eventhough it mentioned that in the package. Ali, our tour guide is a very knowledgeable band patient gentleman.
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Sfleisch
Jul 17, 2024
Don’t trust them, they canceled last minute. - I booked three months in advance as part of a pre-cruise stay in Amsterdam. I had many options at the time I choose them, but no options when they canceled the tour the day before! They canceled on me last minute, and it was too late to get another tour!
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