Holland Windmills Tour: Scenic Villages and Local Delights

Experience the highlights of Holland on a private countryside tour with a professional guide. See famous windmills, taste cheese, try wooden shoes, and explore scenic villages.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Zaanse Schans - Here we have the opportunity to visit the best windmills in Holland.
    In the Seventeenth Century the Zaanse Schans was the biggest industrial area in the world. A Dutch windmill basically was a little factory. Each windmill was custom build for producing various products like paint, cooking oil, paper and wood.
    On the bank of the…
What's Included
  • Bottled water included
  • Comfortable in-vehicle air conditioning
  • Entrance fee to The Zaanse Schans windmill covered
  • All fees and taxes included
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • This private tour is not suitable for children under the age of seven years old.
Additional Information

Join us at Holland Windmills, our intimate local tour company, for an authentic Dutch experience. Born and bred here, we have a deep passion for showcasing Holland’s best spots during your holiday. We delight in sharing tales about our homeland!
Visit iconic windmills, savor our cheese, try on traditional clogs and wander through picturesque rural…

Location
Zaanse Schans
Schansend 1,
Cancellation Policy

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

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Hearts17
Jan 3, 2025
A fun and interesting day! - We had a wonderful day with Teun! He arrived at our hotel promptly. Teun was very knowledgeable and shared the right amount of details with us. We visited several interesting locations north and east of Amsterdam. The restaurant we ate at had a nice variety of food, and was tasty.
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Erichunter44
Jan 2, 2025
Great day learning about the history of The Netherlands! - We had a wonderful day visiting the countryside of Holland. While it was a cloudy/foggy/chilly day - still incredible visiting windmills, small towns with great history, a cheese and clog factory - overall a really fun day trip from Amsterdam. And our tour guide - Teun - was incredible. Super knowledgable, friendly, great with kids, and kept us entertained and informed for hours.
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Kathleenri4106xu
Dec 15, 2024
A tour of the area outside Amsterdam. - Lovely day. Visited out of the way towns, also windmills, clogs and a cheese maker. Able to see rural life. We had a wonderful day. Highly recommended.
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Christina_a
Dec 8, 2024
Book This Tour Now!! - Amazing, Phillip was wonderful. He created a tour based on our interests. He was funny and easy going. He knowledge about Amsterdam and surrounding area was astonishing. As a historian he knows his stuff and spoke on our level. Never felt pushed into purchasing anything and he avoided the ‘touristy’ areas! Cannot recommend this tour enough. Definitely the highlight of our time in Amsterdam.
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Pinball573
Oct 30, 2024
Countryside of Netherlands - Our guide for the day was Teun. He picked us up at the hotel in the morning and returned us to the hotel in the afternoon. This made for a very relaxing experience. Teun was very knowledgeable about the area we traveled to and was able to answer all of our questions. He was very flexible with the day's plans and extremely accommodating. The windmill that operated as a saw mill was interesting and well worth the time visiting. We greatly enjoyed seeing the countryside and the surrounding communities. This was one of the best tours we had while in Amsterdam.
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John_b
Oct 30, 2024
Excellent day exploring Dutch countryside! - 'Tom" was an excellent private tour guide. He picked us up at our hotel (at 10AM at my request) and gave us so much history, options for the tour, made sure we were comfortable each step of the way, excellent in everyway. Very much enjoyed spending the day with Tom and each stop was worthy. So insightful and interesting to spend the day with a local :) HIGHLY recommend this tour.
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Gfell
Oct 7, 2024
A wonderful day touring the Holland countryside! - We had a wonderful day with Philip who showed us the Holland countryside, complete with a thorough explanation of the dams and canals, the windmills as we visited a charming part of the country. It was a joy to spend the day with Philip. He had us laughing as well as feeding our curiosity for the area. Thanks so much for a say we will remember!
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Jean_w
Oct 1, 2024
An exceptional tour with an exceptional guide! - Phillip was an excellent tour guide with vast knowledge of the area. We asked for a tour away from the tourist traps and he delivered. We saw the windmills up close and got a private tour of two of the lumber mills. We had a delightful lunch in the fishing town of Monnickendam. Then visited a traditional cheese farm. We capped off our tour with a visit to village of Waterland and the unique church of Broek. I am not a fan of big tour groups and ear pieces. This was a delightful tour and well worth the money. Thanks to Phillip for an exceptional experience!
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Gavin_s
Sep 27, 2024
Fabulous Tour and Tour Guide - Philip was fantastic!! Very knowledgeable, entertaining and lots of fun. We loved the Windmills and Leo and the team were amazing at the Cheese and Clogs factory. We fell in love with the beautiful villages. The whole day was exactly what we had hoped for. Julie and Gavin
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Christine_s
Sep 22, 2024
Villages, windmills, cheese and wooden shoes tour - Philip, our very knowledgeable and friendly tour guide, took us into several villages outside of Amsterdam where we had the opportunity to see many windmills and even were able to go inside a couple to see how they work. It was a beautiful drive in the countryside with cattle, sheep, goats, canals, cheese shop, wooden shoe making demonstration, cute houses. Philip was an excellent communicator with a great personality. He personalized the tour to our wishes and he answered all our questions. His life experiences added to the quality of the tour.
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