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Zaanse Schans Tour: Discover Dutch Heritage
4.2
555 Ratings
Amsterdam
Immerse yourself in Dutch culture with a Zaanse Schans tour from Amsterdam. Explore historic windmills, taste delicious cheese, and witness traditional crafts in action.
Immerse yourself in Dutch culture with a Zaanse Schans tour from Amsterdam. Explore historic windmills, taste delicious cheese, and witness traditional crafts in action.
Duration:
3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Zaanse Schans - The windmill village Zaanse Schans is an open air museum that houses a collection of working windmills, wooden houses, barns and shops dating back to the 18th and 19th Century. All these buildings were brought here from 1961 on, bringing back to life this most prosperous period of the Zaan region.
- Zaanse Schans - The windmill village Zaanse Schans is an open air museum that houses a collection of working windmills, wooden houses, barns and shops dating back to the 18th and 19th Century. All these buildings were brought here from 1961 on, bringing back to life this most prosperous period of the Zaan region.
What's Included
- Multi-lingual guided tour
- Optional Amsterdam Canal Cruise
- Dutch cheese tasting at a cheesefarm
- Clog museum visit and wooden shoe demonstration
- Multi-lingual guided tour
- Optional Amsterdam Canal Cruise
- Dutch cheese tasting at a cheesefarm
- Clog museum visit and wooden shoe demonstration
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Entry fee inside windmills at Zaanse Schans
- Food and drinks
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Entry fee inside windmills at Zaanse Schans
Additional Information
Come and explore the picturesque windmill village, Zaanse Schans. In a short span of time, immerse yourself in everything that represents the culture of the Dutch. Witness the functioning windmills of the Zaanse Schans and the green timbered houses and stores. Gain knowledge about the process of cheese creation and observe the traditional artisans…
Come and explore the picturesque windmill village, Zaanse Schans. In a short span of time, immerse yourself in everything that represents the culture of the Dutch. Witness the functioning windmills of the Zaanse Schans and the green timbered houses and stores. Gain knowledge about the process of cheese creation and observe the traditional artisans crafting clogs and other objects. A qualified, well-versed and amicable tour guide will escort you across the village before you are given free time to wander and discover more on your own.
Location
De Ruijterkade 105
De Ruijterkade
From the front of the Amsterdam Central Station, turn to your left and walk in the eastern direction. Keep on walking and cross the bridge. Walk until you reach the Hilton hotel. Turn left and follow the walkway underneath the railway crossing. Check-in inside Grand Cafe 1884
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.2
(555 Ratings)
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Pamelamp6595qn
Apr 25, 2025
Wonderful outing! - Our guide Yolanda and our driver were excellent. The sights were amazing. Loved learning about making clogs and cheese
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Litang_c
Apr 21, 2025
My tour guide Ingrid was... - My tour guide Ingrid was incredibly warm, knowledgeable and humorous. I was worried reading the other reviews of the tour but she truly made it worthwhile. She’s one of 22 inhabitants at Zaanse Schaans so she put in a lot of effort in showing us around, which is very much appreciated! I hope she gets to do more tours in Zaanse Schaans and share her infectious energy with all who visits!
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Susur0sari0
Apr 19, 2025
HERMOSO PASEO - It is a beautiful walk that combines with Edam, Volendam and Marken. It's worth it, not only because of the mills, but because you can see the engineering works that to gain ground (polders), on the other hand, the village is very beautiful and quiet, beautiful to walk without haste.
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Mark_e
Apr 19, 2025
Fun excursion for the day - Great experience. Our tour guide, Jolanda, was great and very informative. We had an awesome trip and will stay in the area for our next trip here.
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Robert_s
Apr 18, 2025
Great 👍 - Wonderful experience. I would highly recommend. Extremely pleasant. Great guide. Very knowledgeable.
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Alvira_k
Apr 23, 2025
Good day trip. - It's was OK to see those famous attractions. Too much free time, but we did had some demonstration of wooden shoe making and tasted lots of cheese.
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Ben_c
May 18, 2025
An okay experience if you want to understand the culture. - The experience was okay, the tour guide was very knowledgeable and gave great detail and had bilingual language for all participants. I would say this is a huge tourist trap personally, it’s stated that they are. “Industrial” mills etc, but it’s just full of tourists and overly populated (at least for our trip it was). The location and area is beautiful and a landscape worth seeing, if you can look past the crowds of people (some people unaware or their own environment and arrogant). It’s interesting to get some of the historic culture of the Clogs, Mills and Cheese etc but you can have all of this experience within an hour tops, wouldn’t say this is a half day experience. It may be beneficial to have a Private tour or go yourself and pay for parking or get an Uber as the group size was very large.
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Graham_a
Apr 18, 2025
Windmills, cheese and... - Windmills, cheese and clogs what's not to like ? Sadly so many people there it made it almost impossible to take any decent photos or see everything clearly. This may only be because of easter and the Tulip season but I can't be sure of. If it was quieter I would say it could be a great morning trip to get a bit of tradition and history.
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Nancy_c
May 17, 2025
From the description of... - From the description of the experience, we thought it would be by boat instead of motorcoach. The ride was Pleasant, but then the bus deposited us well outside the parking area so we had an extra amount to walk. The guy had very long legs and walked very rapidly and almost scolded us for being in the rear. I could not walk fast because I have an issue with my knee and nowhere. Where did it say that this tour was all by foot and access not accessible for everyone. The guide spoke very quickly. And there was no map to navigate around the village. I spoke with her about that and she really didn’t care. She narrated while in the bus, but not within the village itself. The description of the tour should be better and should include a map
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Alliene_p
Apr 23, 2025
Was not thrilled… Beautiful place but - I signed up for an English speaking tour, which is what I got, but he also repeated everything in German, which was a little irritating. The scenes were beautiful, but we did not need 2 1/2 hours just not enough to do so we hung around on a bench for an hour. Beautiful photo ops
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