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Private Guided Half Day Tour in Zaanse Schans from Amsterdam

By Windmillgirl Tours
10 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is £340 per adult* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview

The Zaanse Schans is a beautiful preservation village with a variety of historical houses, and working industrial windmills. It feels like you’re travelling back in time! We will visit a working windmill, taste local chocolate , indulge in a Gouda cheese tasting , concluding with a traditional handcraft demonstration of making clogs!

Guided by the Windmill Girls, you will explore the most picturesque windmill sites, charming villages, and traditional Dutch handicrafts. The tours also include a visit to an exceptional cheese farm, where you can taste Gouda cheese in 30 delightful flavours.

Activity location

  • Amsterdam
    • Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Amsterdam
    • Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Private Guided Half Day Tour in Zaanse Schans from Amsterdam
  • Activity duration is 3 hours and 30 minutes3h 30m
    3h 30m
  • English

Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
£340.04 x 1 Adult£340.04
Total
Price is £340.04
Until Sun, 5 Oct

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Private transport
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Bottle of water
  • What's includedWhat's included
    entrance ticket to a windmill
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Licensed Tour Guide/Driver
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Parking Fees
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Food&Drinks

Know before you book

  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Amsterdam
  • 30m
9.30: Pick up from your hotel in Amsterdam (or another for you convenient time)
Zaanse Schans
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket included
10.00: We arrive at The Zaanse Schans. This is a unique area where people live and work, with museums, windmills, shops and old crafts. The site gives an excellent picture of the Zaanstreek in the 18th and 19th centuries. Walking between the traditional timber houses, warehouses and windmills at the Zaanse Schans, you get the feeling that you’re back in the long-gone past. We walk along the dike next to the river Zaan and enjoy the sight of multiple industrial windmills. As we were brought up in a windmill we can tell you everything about them.
Molen De Kat
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket included
10.15: A visit to the last paint mill in the world “De Kat”. It was originally built in 1781. It is an octagonal mill with a rotating cap and external gallery. Since its restoration and partial rebuild in 1960 it has been fitted out to grind couloring materials as pigments. After a explanation how the windmill works, you have the opportunity to climb up the windmill and make beautiful pictures on the external gallery..
Zaanse Schans
  • 15m
10.45: A visit to the chocolate shop. It is a good chance that you can smell the chocolate already in the air when you enter the Zaan region. For over two centuries the Zaan region has been the largest cocoa industry in the world. Cocoa beans are processed and roasted over here. Do you want to try some local chocolate or make your own hot chocolate from local raw cocoa powder? This is the place to be!
Zaanse Schans
  • 30m
11.00: Cheese tasting: At the cheese farm of Henry Willig we will have a Gouda and Edam cheese tasting. They are in the top 10 of the world cheesemakers. If you are a cheese lover… you are in cheese heaven! They have 30 flavours and design the cheeses specifically for travel.
Zaanse Schans
  • 15m
11.30: If you want to try the most famous cookie of Holland “Stroopwafel” we can make a stop at the fresh syrup waffle stand.
Kooijman Souvenirs & Clogs Wooden Shoe Workshop
  • 30m
11.45: Wooden shoe craft demonstration. Always wanted to know how a clog is being made? Join the wooden shoe craft demonstration and find out. In the clog museum we will tell you everything about clogs. You can even try or buy a pair of wooden shoes!
Amsterdam
  • 30m
13.00 Return to your hotel in Amsterdam

Location

Activity location

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    Amsterdam
    • Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Amsterdam
    • Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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