Amsterdam: Keukenhof, Zaanse Schans & Volendam Tour
Description
Enjoy a Super Saver tour that combines the best of the Dutch countryside – windmills, fishing villages and flowering tulips – all in one day! With your guide, visit the windmill town of Zaanse Schans, and take a boat ride to the quaint fishing villages of Volendam and Marken to see cheese and wooden clogs made the traditional way. To top it off you will enjoy a leisurely stroll through Keukenhof Gardens, where the beautiful seasonal displays of springtime bulbs will take your breath away. You will have the opportunity to explore this wonderful park at your own leisure. This 10,5-hour day trip takes you from Amsterdam's lively city centre to the beautiful countryside outside the city. The order of the tour may differ.
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Itinerary
Start your day with a check-in at the Tours & Tickets office in the Central Station of Amsterdam. After check-in you will board the bus to the first destination of the day.
First stop is in the village of Zaanse Schans, where you see windmills and a historic shipyard. As you tour the town, learn more from your guide about this town renowned for its 17th- and 18th-century buildings that vividly depict historical Dutch life.
Next, enjoy a short boat ride from Volendam tocMarken. In these authentic fishing villages, locals still wear their colorful traditional dresses and the old wooden houses stand on stilts. In Volendam, head to a local cheese factory for a demonstration and tasting of cheese crafted in the traditional Dutch way.
Return by coach to Amsterdam, before starting your tour of Keukenhof Gardens.
Board the coach and admire the countryside landscapes on the drive to Keukenhof, passing colorful tulip fields along the way. En route, hear about the history of Keukenhof and the flower fields that are characteristic of the surrounding area (if option selected). Upon arrival, enjoy free time to explore the Keukenhof Gardens (more than 80 acres/32 hectares) on your own. Wander along windy paths, into greenhouses, along brooks and shady ponds. Admire the swathes of colors from the blossoming tulips, daffodils, bluebells, hyacinths, and others.
Then visit a local shoemaker and watch clog-making techniques firsthand.
When it’s time to leave, board your coach for the return trip to Amsterdam.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please note that the blooming cycle at Keukenhof Gardens and Tulip Fields depends heavily on weather conditions. You are guaranteed to see a mixture of flowers in bloom from March to May, but April travel dates are recommended for the greatest chance to see the gardens at their very best, including the tulips
Reviews(640)
Pleasant tour. Luca is a wonderful guide. Very knowledgeable, kind, and helpful. He was able to show us the main places of the tour in The Hague, Rotterdam, and Delft with excellent explanations and advice for our free time as well. Thank you Highly recommended, hoping you find Luca again :)
Dear guest, Thank you for the wonderful and thoughtful review. We are very happy to hear that you enjoyed the tour and that Luca made such a positive impression with his knowledge, kindness, and helpful advice during the trip. It is great to know that you enjoyed discovering The Hague, Rotterdam, and Delft with us. Your kind words mean a lot to our team and we hope to welcome you again in the future. Kind regards
Our guide Yan was an excellent professional and knew how to handle the high number of people in the group and be quite quick in the transitions. The garden we thought had 1 hour more, we arrived at 9:50 and we left at 13:20. The rest was perfect timing between free time and attractions.
Words are not enough to thank Diana and Drik, she for her professionalism, competence, kindness and sympathy...!!! The best ever!! Drik, great driver and patient ..! A total thank you..!!
Great tour! We saw so much during our almost 12 hour tour. Dianne was a knowledgeable, fun guide who kept everything on schedule and Gerald was such a good and safe bus driver! I want to bring more of my family to do this same tour!
Great fun and all well organized: a full day trip, to do if you stay more than one day. Diana drives exceptionally, if you are lucky enough to meet her! Recommended!
Dear Guest, Thank you for your kind review. We are very happy to hear that you enjoyed the day trip and that everything was well organized. It’s great to know Diana made your experience even better, we will share your nice words with her. Kind regards, Amsterdam: Keukenhof, Zaanse Schans & Volendam Tour
WONDERFUL DAY - windmills, wooden shoe making, cheese making, Fishing Villages, boat ride and Keukenhof - Beautiful Tulip/Flowers Park - too early for tulips
Dear guest, Thank you for your lovely feedback! We’re so happy you enjoyed the day exploring Holland and visiting the windmills, cheese making, and Keukenhof, even if the tulips were a little early. Kind regards
It was a very organized trip and the tour guides were very kind and friendly! It was a long day with the combined tours so tha is why I am taking one Star off the review. But overall I would do the tour again
Dear Colleen, Thank you for your review. We’re glad to hear you found the tour organised and our guides kind and friendly. We appreciate your honest feedback about the long day and are happy to know you would join the tour again! Kind regards, Tours & Tickets Amsterdam
Truly appreciate super-saver package! We covered so much in a day.. Keukenhoff Gardens, Market and Volendam. Experiences: windmill tour, clog making, cheese making and tasting, walking through quaint little villages, taking a boat ride and walking through the famed tulip gardens! Bus drivers and tour guides were exceptional and reallygoodabout keepingthe group on time. We were so impressed with multilingual Diana who switched with effortless ease between English, Spanish, Italian and French! I'd give 10 stars if I could.. this was SO worth the money!
Dear Shubhra, Thank you for your wonderful review. We’re thrilled to hear you enjoyed the full-day tour and all the experiences—from Keukenhof Gardens to the boat ride and village visits. It’s great to know Diana and our team made the tour even more enjoyable with their expertise and multilingual support. Your enthusiasm truly means a lot to us! Kind regards, Tours & Tickets Amsterdam
When we arrived at the meeting point to redeem the voucher for the tickets with the qr we are told that the system does not work and that it is fixed, it was not true and we had to redeem them in keukenhof which caused us to waste a lot of time. First they put us on a bus, then they make us get off and get on another one queuing immensely (being 8 people we wanted to go together and we had arrived very punctual). Despite taking the excursion in Spanish, the boy from the clogs demonstration didn’t speak any Spanish and the cookie demonstration didn’t speak Spanish either; as for the cheese demonstration he didn’t speak Spanish either, but then to sell if he spoke it (he teased us), the millmaster was studying and spoke it quite well. Our guides and the bus driver very well.
Dear Roberto, Thank you for your review. We’re happy to hear you liked the guides, but we’re very sorry for the issues with ticket redemption and language availability at the sites. Your detailed feedback will help us improve the organisation and communication for future tours. Kind regards, Tours & Tickets
A full-blown scam Mrs. Ingrid and her companion who were the guides stood me and my husband up, when we saw the mills and we had left to go to the Island we were scheduled to visit, they stood us up and no one was responsible when we went to claim the agency, much eye with this Enterprise is a scammer and the guides the worst because people are always told in case someone is missing but they took the boat and if someone was missing they didn't care arriving us at the time they stayed to take the boat, on the other hand when we went to claim the agency they doubted our complaint, in short a disaster
Dear Maria, Thank you for your feedback. We are very sorry to hear about your disappointing experience on the tour. This is certainly not the level of service we aim to provide, and we take your concerns very seriously. We have already informed our management team about the situation to ensure it is thoroughly reviewed. For any further assistance regarding your booking, we kindly advise you to contact the Viator customer support team directly so they can look into your case and provide guidance. Kind regards, The Tours & Tickets Team
