Giethoorn & Zaanse Schans: Dutch Village Charm

Experience the best of the Netherlands with a tour of Giethoorn, the ā€˜Dutch Venice’, and Zaanse Schans, home to traditional windmills. Cruise the canals of Giethoorn, explore charming farmhouses and bridges, and visit a clog factory, cheese factory, and diamond factory in Zaanse Schans.

Duration: 9 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Zaanse Schans - Visit Zaanse Schans traditional wooden windmills and distinctive green wooden houses which were relocated there to recreate the atmosphere of an 18th/19th-century village. Duration is about 1.5 hours including visits with demonstrations at cheese factory and wooden shoes factory. Photo stop at the bank of Zaan River for the best…
What's Included
  • Boat trip on a small electric boat in Giethoorn, guided and drive your own boat experience
  • Professional guide
  • Guided tour in cheese factory, Zaanse Schans
  • Tour coach or van
  • Guided tour in diamond factory, Zaanse Schans
  • Guided tour in wooden shoes factory, Zaanse Schans
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Lunch
  • Big touristy 40-seater boat, at own cost and own arrangement. We offer small boat local experience.
Additional Information

Small group tour with a small electric trip in Giethoorn. Explore the two top sightseeing attractions near Amsterdam in one day. Visit idyllic canal village ā€˜ā€™Dutch Venice’’ Giethoorn, cruise around Giethoorn on a small electric boat guided by our friendly guide. You may navigate the boat for a real local lifestyle experience, at no extra cost, no…

Location
DoubleTree by Hilton Amsterdam Centraal Station
Oosterdoksstraat
Meet at the pick up area at the canal side of Double Tree by Hilton Hotel. Pls provide mobile contact and connect on WhatsApp for free calls with Wi-Fi or internet. In case we do not see you there, we call you.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Shyr_y
Apr 27, 2025
Great Tour with Supurb Guide - One should not miss this tour. It is jammed packed with nice scenary and a great way to see the country side of Netherlands. It is especially interesting that we visited a famous cheese factory (with tasting) and a wooden shoe (clog) making factory. You will regret if you don’t join. Public transport is difficult to reach Geiethoon and this tour solve the problem. We were transported by a 9-seater Mercedes Benz van and our guide, Morgan, is a great guide with patience and we learnt a lot from him through this tour.
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Karen_c
Apr 25, 2025
What a wonderful day! Our... - What a wonderful day! Our guide was so knowledgeable and shared so much information with us. We thoroughly enjoyed our time spent on this tour. Would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about Holland.
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962flavianec
Apr 25, 2025
Excellent - We love the walk. We took lots of pictures of amazing landscapes. Very attentive guide, explained super well about everything, we made a tour in the plant of sausages and cheeses. We love everything.
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D6192pbgeorgek
Apr 20, 2025
Giethoorn and Holland roadtrip toulips and windmills - Perfect and complete experience ! Cherry was excellent guide and Amine also exceptional! Good and recommended tour to do! A lot of toulips field on our route and pleasant Sunday
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Nilug2013
Apr 19, 2025
Great job. Good clean confidante vehicle . The tulip field stop was awesome, loved the small boat canal ride fantastic! - Cherry and her team Shahin did a great job with our tour. The mercedes van was very clean and comfortable. The Giethoorn canal biat ride was fantastic. Loved it!
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Gaƫtan
Apr 18, 2025
Visit a small village similar to the one where I live - Today we went to Giethoorn in the Netherlands. A charming little village similar to St-Zotique where I live. Our guide Cherry needed another captain to drive through the canals. A small aluminium electric boat with a speed of 6 km / hours. Very nice visit...
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Jeffr22
Apr 15, 2025
A wonderful introduction to Dutch history and culture. - This was a fabulous tour and was our introduction to the Netherlands. With the visit to the cheese factory, the clog-making and the boat tour around Giethoorn, we had a great introduction to the culture and history. Giethoorn was lovely. Our tour guide, Koen, was really great, informative and extremely helpful. We would recommend this tour and Koen to everyone.
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Astridyaneths
Apr 13, 2025
Best guides I've ever had - Excellenteeee the best guides! On time, excellent handling of knowledge of the place and very friendly both. Thank you.
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Lorenag14
Apr 28, 2025
NON PROFESSIONAL Cherry’s Travels and Tour - I don’t think the price was worth it. The visit to this town is definitely a must, however we don’t recommend Cherry and Travel Tours as they weren’t professional. Even though the communication was good, they changed our reservation from a Spanish speaker tour to an english one with such a short noticed with only no options that accommodate our stay, since we planned the trip months before. Also, at the end of the trip, just 5 minutes after we got into the car, we realize we forgot our sunglasses which were expensive and ask Cherry to come back but she wouldn’t because she said it wasn’t possible, however she did made a stop in a private tulip field to take photos for the other two people who were at the tour, which almost got us in trouble with the owner of the field and took us much more time that it will just going back for 10 min to search for the sunglasses. We also have to wait almost half an hour for the other two people to arrive the tour.
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Cynthia_b
Apr 12, 2025
Would not book this tour if looking to learn - The tour guide was extremely nice however did not know a great deal about the Netherlands. Nor the towns visited. Typically I’m use to a historical perspective on a tour or fun facts . The tour summary mentions free cheese and clog demonstration- as fyi- it is free even if not part of tour. This was a lot of money to not have tour information. But again he was extremely nice just not well trained w tour information. Would not recommend.
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up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).