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Zaanse Schans 3,5-Hour Small Group Tour
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Zaanse Schans 3,5-Hour Small Group Tour

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Visit Zaanse Schans on this small-group tour from Amsterdam with a local guide. Step inside a working windmill, watch clogs being made and taste cheese at a farm.

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A compact trip from Amsterdam to the open-air village of Zaanse Schans, run in a small group with a local guide and return transfers included. The visit covers a wooden-shoe workshop with a clog-making demonstration, a farm where Gouda production is explained and cheeses are tasted, and entry to a working windmill whose balcony looks over the countryside.

The guide explains the windmill's industrial role. Duration is listed as three hours in the key details, although the title says three and a half.

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Address

Oosterdoksstraat 4, 1011 DK Amsterdam, Netherlands · Amsterdam-Centrum
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Hours

Daily morning departures from about 9:15, ~3 to 3.5 hours.
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Booking

Booking required

Duration

3h30

Best time

morning or lunchtime

Intensity

Moderate walking

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Good to know

  • Departures start around 9:15 each morning
  • allow roughly 3 to 3.5 hours as the listings differ
  • climb the windmill balcony for the countryside view.
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