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Bruges Guided Tour: Explore the Medieval City and Venice of the North with a Canal Boat Trip
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275 Ratings
Brugge
Bruges is famously known as the quintessential medieval city and the ‘Northern Venice’. Discover why it has earned these evocative titles as you explore its hidden gems and corners, guided by an expert. The journey concludes with a scenic boat tour along its waterways.
Bruges is famously known as the quintessential medieval city and the ‘Northern Venice’. Discover why it has earned these evocative titles as you explore its hidden gems and corners, guided by an expert. The journey concludes with a scenic boat tour along its waterways.
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Minnewater Lake - What does minnewater mean? This is the Dutch name for the lake, which is made up of two Dutch words: minne, which means both “common” and “love”, and water, which means “water”. Thus, the most correct translation would mean translating the word minne as “common”, since these were the “common waters, community waters, everyone’s…
- Minnewater Lake - What does minnewater mean? This is the Dutch name for the lake, which is made up of two Dutch words: minne, which means both “common” and “love”, and water, which means “water”. Thus, the most correct translation would mean translating the word minne as “common”, since these were the “common waters, community waters, everyone’s water” since it was where the old port of Bruges was located, a site closely linked to the city and the daily life of its citizens.
What's Included
- City recommendations
- Guided tour of Bruges
- Professional guide
- Boat ride through the canals of Bruges
- City recommendations
- Guided tour of Bruges
- Professional guide
- Boat ride through the canals of Bruges
What's Not Included
- Lunch
- Lunch
Additional Information
- Groups of more than 24 people must use headphones, they can buy them for €1 directly from our guides
- Groups of more than 24 people must use headphones, they can buy them for €1 directly from our guides
Location
Bargeplein
Bargeweg
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.0
(275 Ratings)
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Z2330ycchristined
Dec 13, 2024
Tour through Bruges with Irina, our guide and the boat afterwards - A guide, Irina, Spanish, speaking impeccable French, led us through the streets of Bruges.
She is very professional, pleasant, and considerate.
A group of 11 people, visit in all of 3h50 and the boat then without our guide.
We had the possibility to make the boat until 5pm last boarding
We had lunch before the boat.
We had explanations and tour tips even for Ghent
Thank you Irina for your professionalism. Happy New Year's Eve
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Angela_m
Dec 12, 2024
Enjoyed! - Lovely town, our guides were great! Wish we had spent longer! We just took a day trip. The whole place is walkable!
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13ferie
Dec 6, 2024
Value for money - A very interesting tour, well worth doing. We went for a walk through the city for about half an hour and then had a bout ride for 30/40 minutes.
Very nice!
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Kim_r
Dec 3, 2024
Highly recommend!! - Well-paced, great points of interest and enjoyed learning about the history of Bruges! Cami is a wonderful guide!🥰
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Yvettep38
Dec 2, 2024
Walking tour of Bruges - Good informative walking tour guide
Enjoyable couple of hours
Fun jolly boat tour guide too
Made experience enjoyable
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Bertha_c
Nov 29, 2024
Sunset at the canal - Making connections while Listening the stories and history of places as we were walking around. Ended with the boat trip at sunset was a plus, with the magnificent views and skylines of the town sparkling everywhere! Use comfort shoes!!
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Happiness63940281213
Dec 5, 2024
Walk & Sail around Bruges - JK was an entertaining and knowledgeable guide. I didn’t how long or how far we had walked and the information he gave us informed my plans for the next day.
Boat trip included in the deal was also worth it.
Happy to recommend.
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949jiml
Nov 27, 2024
Disappointed - A small group of 10 people. Guide was late. A nice person but her English was poor and hard to understand. We did get to see the town and I guess that was the purpose of the tour. If the guide was more engaging and had better English then it would have been fine. We opted not to take boat trip and went back to a lovely restaurant for lunch.
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Ron
Dec 11, 2024
TERRIBLE - Our tour guide NO SHOWED! We texted and called the guide and received no response. Since there is no person you from Trip Advisor to talk with you are just stuck. Entire situation terrible plus Trip Advisor has my money.
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Joannv127
Nov 27, 2024
Do not use viator if cruising - Beware. We booked this tour off the Rotterdam but were unable to go because we couldn’t dock due to gale force winds. We cancelled as soon as the captain told us but Viator would not refund us because it was less than 24 hours. I talked to 2 different advocates and they were very inflexible. It is unfair to punish someone for something completely out of their control especially when it says a full refund for in climate weather on their website. I will not use them or any other land tour company from a cruise ship again as weather plays a large part in docking and tendering
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