Sep 16, 2025
Best tour experience with the best guide - If I could give the Kinderdijk Bike Tour with Marco six stars, I would! It is well worth it. Marco is an amazing guide and a true Kinderdijk local who got to know me and my friend on the waterbus ride from Rotterdam to Kinderdijk. He then added to the tour and tailored the experience to us. After picking up our e-bikes in Kinderdijk, Marco took us to a village bakery for a delicious pastry and coffee. We then set off for a visit to a working windmill (milling flour) in a nearby village. We spent an hour with one of the volunteer caretakers who had us climbing inside the windmill, showing us the gears and answering all our questions about the engineering. We then went outside for a demonstration - with our assistance - how to set the sails and turn the cap. Following that remarkable experience, we biked around the nearby farmland and villages - roughly 10 miles. Throughout our journey, Marco took photos and shared them with us. He is by far one of the best tour guides I have used over the years. I highly recommend this experience with Marco.
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Aug 2, 2025
A great tour for a pair of engineers - Marco was great, and we are really happy we booked with him! I had also heard good things about him through a Rick Steves travel forum. I was initially on the fence about whether we needed a guide, but I’m glad we booked. He facilitated the logistics so we didn’t have to worry about details, and he arranged for an in-depth private tour of a windmill’s inner workings that we would not have had if we just showed up at the visitor center and rented bikes. He was able to accommodate a late schedule change for us, and he was focused on making sure that we got what we wanted out of the tour. A wonderful day, a wonderful tour!
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Jul 1, 2025
Windmill experience while cruising to Rotterdam - Really enjoyed our bike tour with Marco. The opportunity to visit and tour a working windmill and learn how to operate it was such a unique experience. We arrived by cruise ship to Rotterdam and Marco met us at the cruise terminal and accompanied us by water taxi. Unfortunately for us our cruise ship arrived late so we did not get to spend more time on this tour! Marco was very flexible though in waiting for us and making sure we made it back to our ship in time while still experiencing as much as we could.
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Apr 18, 2025
Everything I hoped for - Had a wonderful time on the bike tour. The views were amazing and the amount of time you get to spend learning about the windmills and talking to locals cannot be duplicated elsewhere. If I could have planned differently, I would have made time to stay in kinderdijk by myself a little after the tour, but the tour itself was very well done.
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Sep 5, 2024
Awesome Host and Great Bike Tour - We met up with Marco at Rotterdam Centraal and then headed over to Kinderdijk by boat. Marco had a wealth of information and delivered in a friendly and approachable manner! We toured the countryside stopping at cafes, checking out the wildlife, learning first hand about windmills from locals, met cheese makers and sampled and bought wonderful cheese varieties, had ice cream, and took tons of pictures along our journey … many by Marco and his awesome iPhone photography skills. I highly recommend this tour if you want to do something personal, connect with the local people and culture, enjoy being out in the country, and love to have a guide who is friendly, knowledgeable, and super personable! We had the best time. Thank you Marco!!!
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Aug 3, 2024
Bike Rentals - Renting a bike and doing your own tour is very simple and inexpensive. To rent a bike, head to the Tourist Info Center-walk just past the center; go down a driveway and you will see many bike to the right. Friendly courteous folks and pay with credit card, if you wish. Bike rental 8 euros a day. Also have ebikes at 20 euros.
We just followed the bike route that runs along the canal. We didn't buy tour tickets since we had done that several times. I am sure you can get tickets for tours at the Tourist Info Center.
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Jul 31, 2024
Fantastic bike tour - My husband, daughter and I went on the bike tour through Kinderdijk with Marco. He was so kind and patient. He picked us up from our hotel and we took the ferry to Kinderdijk, rented the e-bikes and proceeded to ride through the countryside. We went to this adorable little bakery and were treated with a delicious latte and coffee cake. We then took a tour of a grain windmill, which was extremely interesting, The two volunteers who ran the mill were so informative and entertaining. We then took the rest of the bike tour, which I enjoyed the most. Riding through the country, along the canals and farms and, of course, the beautiful windmills, was an experience of a lifetime! We had an amazing time and owe it all to Marco. Such an amazing experience!!
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Jul 28, 2024
Must do tour! - We had an amazing time riding bikes through the trails seeing the local sites to include a historical and informative tour of. 3 rd generation working windmill with stones to grind flour. The scenery of the local farms with cattle and summer homes with gorgeous gardens and flowers was a true highlight. All in all a splendid bike tour with a friendly and informative guide who stopped at all the scenic locations to ensure we had wonderful photographic memories of our day. The best part was that our tour was willing to make modifications to our agenda to meet our needs. We would highly recommend this tour. Fantastic!
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Jul 7, 2024
A wonderful experience of Kinderdijk with a local guide. - Marco was excellent. He catered to our needs and provided a great experience interacting with local people. Cafe visit tasting local cake and beer. Private tour to experience inside a working windmill which was fantastic. Lunch at another local Cafe and tour and tasting at local cheese factory. A really enjoyable and fantastic experience. All while biking through the countryside. Marco chose ebikes for us as it was very windy, thankfully. His experience and knowledge made this a great day for us. Thankyou Marco.
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Aug 28, 2025
All the same and grey - Mills all the same, gray, pleasant boat ride, well-made watervore museums much less beautiful than those at zansee scans near Zadam.
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