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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Elizabeth_p

Apr 21, 2025

Smooth and Well organized - Our guide was very well educated on the area and a lot of fun. The tour was exactly as described and everything went smooth and on time. It was a great way to visit Zaanse Schans from Amsterdam.

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Elizabethmg4119qk

Mar 30, 2025

So glad we went. We learned a lot. I liked seeing where Rembrandt had bought his colors from the paint windmill. - The guide was absolutely wonderful. We enjoyed seeing the windmills, how wooden shoes were made and learn and taste Dutch cheese.

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Tracy_n

Mar 14, 2025

Wonderful half day tour to the cutest towns - Zaanse Schans Windmills and Volenda - Rob was an excellent guide who gave us enough history and information on our half day trip to Zaanse Schans Windmills and Volendam. We had a pleasant day exploring the sites with a quick tour of the clog and cheese making factory without any pressure to purchase anything. We had sufficient time to explore the sites and take all the IG worthy photos. Thanks again Rob you were great. And say hello to Kevin our driver too.

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Karinnacraig

Jan 4, 2025

Fun and Fabulous experience - Loved this day trip out of Amsterdam exploring the other little towns and villages and seeing the windmills. It was a very good well paced tour although I would prefer a smaller group, this was good value for money. Saw a lot Loved the village of Volendam the most. It was the highlight for me Getting close with the clog makers and also cheese tastings and windmills was also good to see the Netherlands at its best.

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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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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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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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Pe13uk

Apr 29, 2025

Disappointingly poor - Meet & greet good, windmills ok but the cheese farm was laughably poor! A quick minute of about cheese making, then try and buy! Trip felt more like a constant sales exercise and worst trip we have taken on our travels. Thankfully Harold the guide was entertaining and informative!

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Epicurian1912

Apr 24, 2025

Not great at all! - The scenery is certainly pretty but this tour is still a tourist factory. The explanations in the farm or workshop of the sabotier last barely 5 minutes and the guides lead us directly to souvenir shops! Not to mention the Zaanse Schans which should be renamed Disneyland! It is indeed like a real amusement park. Too bad.

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