You will walk around Zaanse Schans together with your local guide who will tell you all about the sights and the history. You will visit a wooden shoe workshop to see a demonstration of clog making, a cheese farm for cheese tasting and a presentation on cheese making and a working industrial windmill.
A local guide and driver from Zaan Tours will accompany you on this tour to make you feel more than welcome and to tell you everything you would like to know about the Zaan region. He or she will also asist you in taking the best possible pictures.
Visit the wooden shoe workshop to learn about Dutch clogs, see different clogs at their museum and watch how clogs are made during a live demonstration of clog making. Furthermore, you will be able to make your perfect clog pictures.
Visit the last remaining paint windmill of the world. You will learn about this windmill from your guide and you will be able to wander around in this 240 year old still operating windmill. You can also climb up to the platform for the best view of the windmills, the Zaanse Schans, the meadows and the river.
Visit this cheese farm to attend a presentation on how Dutch Gouda cheese is made. After this presentation, you will be able to try lots of various Dutch cheese such as baby Gouda cows cheese, smoked cheese, goat cheese or even a coconut cheese.
What a fun way to travel from the airport to your hotel and see a lot of Dutch culture and countryside along the way. We learned so much, had the loveliest guide Maakie, we learned about the topography, engineering, people, food, and history of the Netherlands. 10/10
Very enjoyable and everything we thought it would be tour guide was very informative and friendly very patient with my wife who has mobility issues
Caroline is an excellent guide. She was on time, provided lots of associated history, and carefully attended to my wife's mobility and visual impairment issues.
The tour was great. We were met at the airport and it was a short ride to the windmills. Our guide was knowledgeable and friendly.
This was well worth it as an activity to end your tme in the Netherlands. It is sbout 2 hours of walking, but everything is relatively close together. Our guide Ray was very patient and did a great job!
We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the Zaanse Schans windmills. Our knowledgeable tour driver, Rayette, provided a comprehensive tour of the neighborhood, shops, and windmills, sharing their rich history. The experience was enhanced by her insightful commentary. We appreciated spending the day with her and were pleased with our decision to select this tour. I strongly recommend this company for any Zaanse Schans tour.
After we retrieved our luggage, we found Esther who was waiting for us at the meeting point, a designated place in the airport. She was friendly, knowledgeable and seemed genuinely excited about showing us her native city. We toured in a luxury van and she narrated along the way. We went to the village of Zaanse Schans and learned about cheese making, clogs and windmills. The three hours went by quickly. Esther took us to our hotel and waited for us to drop off our luggage. She went beyond our expectations and drove us to our next destination, a canal tour. We enthusiastically recommend this tour to anyone visiting Amsterdam.
Our guide Callam was friendly, informative and knowledgeable. He just made the experience fun and uncomplicated.
This was a great tour out into the Dutch countryside with Kenny. Original achitecture, working demonstrations of cheese making and wooden shoe manufacturing, nice people. Picked up at airport and then driven to the location. Plenty of informative commentary on the way. Never felt rushed. We had time on our own if we wanted it. Then dropped off at our hotel.
Such a great tour through the beautiful Windmills in Zaanse Schans. We were met at airport and then went to Zaanse Schans. These windmills are a must see! Beautiful area. We climbed to the top of the windmill and took in the beautiful views that surround the area. Charming village with cheese shops and traditional clog shops that provide a demonstration on how they shoes are made. Our driver and guide Callum was wonderful! Thank you so much for a great morning in Zaanse Schans.
Flexible schedule made sure we saw everything we were expecting even offering to go out of the way when one activity was incidentally close to do an alternate.
Knowing my hotel room would not be ready in the AM, this was the perfect option. It was a private tour with a UK guide. The private tour meant I didn’t have to worry about our personal items being left in the van. The meet up point was easy to find, quick drive out to Zaanse Schans where we spent around 3 hours wandering the small town. We saw the windmills and got to climb up to the top, we watched how wooden shoes are made, watched a cheese making demonstration with lots of samples to try and bit of shopping. This was a great tour to start off our trip. Plus, it kept us going after our overnight flight. Our driver dropped us off at our hotel around 1. Highly recommend this option for an early morning arrival.
Our guide Baric was outstanding. Met up pn time and was very considerate of our time and what was important to us. He was quite knowledgeable ad explained everything well!
Loved the informative tour and the friendliest tour guide Bart. Beautiful area/Tour really enjoyed the demonstration and history of the area. Thanks
Our tour guide met us at the Amsterdam airport after our overnight plane ride from the US. The tour was 3 hrs long. We got to walk the Zaandam grounds with a knowledgeable person about all aspects of the site and allot of history about The Netherlands. Our tour ended with a drop off at our hotel in the city. We were very happy with this private tour.
<p>The operator of the tour delivered EXACTLY what they promised. Our planes were a few minutes late, but we had provided the flight info coming from international and they knew and were ready for us. We were taking in a nice van directly to Zaanse Schans. Our guide Ingrid who lives in the village was a delight. I got to go inside more than one windmill , tried a wonderful lavender cheese, 100 dark chocolate and bought two of the best truffles ever and see a postcard beautiful place. I'm not sure if Ingrid is always the local guide, but I have nothing to say nice about both our driver and our guide. It was cool to be swept from the airport, spending an amazing few hours, and then to be dropped off at your hotel. I would say it was perfect and a good value.</p>
<p>The tour was brilliant. Our guide gave us lots of information, plenty of photo opportunities and being picked up from the airport meant that the trip was convenient. Highly recommended.</p>
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