Zaanse Schans half-day tour from Amsterdam

Excursions & day trips

Zaanse Schans half-day tour from Amsterdam

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£38.00

Free cancellation

Language: English

Mobile voucher accepted

Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes

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Group tour

Why you’ll love this…

Experience Holland on a three-hour trip with a personal guide
Stroll along the streets and watersides of Zaanse Schans
Learn about the production of clogs and cheese
Visit a working windmill

What to expect

Discover the delights and history of Zaanse Schans and the Dutch countryside on a 3-hour, small-group trip from Amsterdam. With an informative guide, admire the lush, canal-crossed Dutch landscape.

Take a tour of pretty Zaanse Schans, famous for its wooden windmills and green-painted houses and visit a cheese farm and clog-making workshop to learn about these traditional crafts.

Lastly, visit a working windmill to learn how these waterside factories helped drive the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age.

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What's included

Transportation to and from Amsterdam city center
Local guide
Admission fees

What's not included

Gratuities (optional)

Where

LOT61 Amsterdam Centraal Station, Oosterdoksstraat, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Meeting point:

Meet your tour guide next to Amsterdam Centraal Station, outside coffee store LOT61 (LOT61 is part of hotel DoubleTree by Hilton Amsterdam Centraal Station). Your tour guide will hold an orange umbrella.

What to remember

Know in advance:

Maximum of 16 people per tour group
This tour operates in all weather conditions, dress for the weather and wear comfortable walking shoes

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Provider

Zaan Tours

Booking fee

Good news! No extra fees are applied to this booking.

Cancellation policy

Receive a 100% refund if you cancel up to 48 hours before the experience begins.

What people say about this experience

Excellent

4.8 /5

Based on 9 reviews from verified customers

Review categories

Value for money

4.8/5

Service

4.9/5

Staff

4.9/5

Safety

4.9/5

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Kath from Aberdeen, Scotland
Verified booking
5
7 July 2025
Travelled as a couple
Everything went very well and guide Bianca was excellent
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Ann
Verified booking
4.6
23 May 2025
Travelled as a couple
Our guide [Kay] was excellent and very well informed. It was very good to have a guide who knows the area so well. I would not have wanted less time with our guide but it would have been better if the trip was a bit longer and we had some free time at the end.
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Sara
Verified booking
5
8 April 2025
Travelled as a couple
What a wonderful tour! We thoroughly enjoyed it and excellent value for money. The tour guide was very knowledgeable and also had a great sense of humour. We will be telling everyone this is a ‘must do’ if they go to Amsterdam.
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Stuart
Verified booking
5
5 April 2025
Travelled as a couple
Trip couldn't have been easier or more enjoyable. Everything went well with a great tour guide (the Mayor of the little village) with lots of info, stories and real passion. The clogs factory was interesting, the cheese story was a but rushed, keen to get people into the gift shops. Inside the genuine working windmil was very unique and a clear highlight. Really good value, would do it again happily.
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TUI Musement Traveler
Verified booking
5
7 September 2025
This was the best tour I had in Amsterdam highly recommended
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TUI Musement Traveler
Verified booking
4
14 August 2025
Interesting to see how clogs are made. And lovely to be able to enter an original working windmill

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