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Amsterdam private tour to windmills, cheese farm and villages

By Holland Windmills
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Free cancellation available
Price is AU$987 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 7h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Activity location

  • Zaanse Schans
    • Schansend 1,
    • 1509 AW, Zaandam, The Netherlands

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Zaanse Schans
    • Schansend 1,
    • 1509 AW, Zaandam, The Netherlands

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Amsterdam private tour to windmills, cheese farm and villages

  • Activity duration is 7 hours7h
    7h
  • English

Pickup included

Starting time: 9:00 AM
Price details
AU$986.97 x 1 AdultAU$986.97
Total
Price is AU$986.97
Until Wed, 8 July

What's included, what's not

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    Bottled water
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    Hotel pick up and return
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    All Fees and Taxes
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    Air-conditioned vehicle
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    Entrance fee to a windmill at The Zaanse Schans
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    Professional tour guide
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    Lunch
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    This private tour is not suitable for children under the age of seven years old.

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

What you can expect

Experience Holland with Holland Windmills, our small and local tour company. We are born and raised here and love to show you the best places during your holiday in Holland. We also love telling you stories about Holland!

See famous windmills, taste cheese, try wooden shoes and walk through scenic villages. We know the best sights, what to visit and where to eat. Let us take you places where the crowds don't go and explore Holland at your own pace.

Cheaper than a taxi, better than a big group tour and a lot more comfortable than organising everything on your own. Ideal for couples, families and friends!

Activity itinerary

Zaanse Schans

  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
Here we have the opportunity to visit the best windmills in Holland. In the Seventeenth Century the Zaanse Schans was the biggest industrial area in the world. A Dutch windmill basically was a little factory. Each windmill was custom build for producing various products like paint, cooking oil, paper and wood. On the bank of the river Zaan hundreds of windmills were grinding, pounding, sawing and crushing. Products of the Zaanse Schans were exported all over the world. The dozen windmills on the Zaanse Schans are still fully operational. On a good windy day we’ll see them turning at full speed. Entrance to one of the windmills is included in this tour.

Edam

  • 30m
The village of Edam lies on a dike next to a big fresh water lake. Edam is famous for cheese making. It’s also a good place to try some Dutch seafood, like herring.

Simonehoeve

  • 45m
At this family owned cheese farm they tell you everything you always wanted to know about cheese and wooden shoes. Of course there is a large variety of cheeses to taste from as well as fruit whine and typical Dutch cookies and you can buy your favourite cheese, clogs and all kinds of souvenirs.

Monnickendam

  • 45m
Monnickendam is one of the oldest towns in Holland and incredibly beautiful. We drive through the old centre passing the old church with it’s amazing bell tower and watch typical Dutch vessels in the harbour. Monnickendam is a nice place to have lunch.

Church Broek in Waterland

  • 45m
In the centre of Waterland is the village of Broek. Although it's only a fifteen minutes drive from Amsterdam, Broek in Waterland feels completely different from the cosmopolitan city. Most of the old houses, farms and even the church were made out of wood. Stone buildings were too heavy for the soft soil. There are still many beautiful large wooden houses with gardens full of flowers. It’s very peaceful and quiet and we’re pretty much the only touroperator that goes there because large busses with tourists are not even welcome.

Waterland

  • 45m
Waterland is called the wetlands of Amsterdam, with old villages, fields and hundreds of ditches. It’s a landscape with narrow waterways called ‘sloten’, meadows, reeds, cows, sheep, horses and birds, farms and church towers on the horizon. This area is mostly peatland and also full of lakes. The landscape does not get more Dutch than this anywhere else.

Location

Activity location

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    Zaanse Schans
    • Schansend 1,
    • 1509 AW, Zaandam, The Netherlands

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Zaanse Schans
    • Schansend 1,
    • 1509 AW, Zaandam, The Netherlands