Excellent tour of the canals. The route will entirely depend on your guide's decision based on…read moretheir inclination. Guide has helpful recommendations for places to eat and have fun. There is shade on the boat if you need it. A pro tip would be to buy drinks from the office before going because it's very convenient to the launch area.

We had Captain Andy for our evening canal tour - awesome experience!! Super funny and good size…read moregroup. Definitely ask your tour guide questions, it makes the ride funnier and more interesting.

One of the best things you can do in Volendam is rent a bike. Better yet, rent an electric bike!…read more There several vendors to choose from, but this one is friendly and economical. You'll pay your rental fee upfront, but they don't ask to keep a credit credit or your passport as collateral. Now that's trust! €10 3 hour Regular Bike Rental €15 3 hour Electric Rental Pick the later! Its so incredibly worth the extra €5. You'll be speeding through the Netherlands with minimal effort! The electric bikes are fast, smooth and well maintained. We easily rode to the next small town of Edam, which is cheesy, cute, and charming. The scenery in this area green and beautiful, and I very welcome relief from the noise, smoke, and big crowds of Amsterdam. Rural Netherlands is best seen on bike! So fun!

This bike shop is conveniently located only about a quarter mile from the Volendam center bus stop…read more It's right on the wharf where all the touristy stuff is set up, so super easy to find. You'll see the bikes parked outside, and their big sign waving. We rented bikes (the 3-speed ones with hand brakes) and did a big loop north through Edam, then along the canal (and highway - but quiet and protected path) to Monnikendam, across the dyke to Marken (drizzly headwinds made this the most difficult part of the trip!), and then a ferry ride back to Volendam. Stopping for lunch in Edam and a drink in Marken, plus wandering around and seeing a few sights along the way, the whole trip took us about 4.5 hours. If you are going to a cheese farm, you'll want an extra hour, at least. The bike shop sold us the ferry tickets at a discount, so we didn't have to do anything extra. The bikes were in great condition, the staff was helpful and fluent in English. A lovely experience all around!

Would definitely recommend this tour to anyone who would like to experience just a bit more of…read moreDutch food culture than your average tourist. The local food scene is surprisingly diverse and very tasty! Our guide, Guus, was a very enthusiastic guy, really seems to know the ins and outs of Utrecht, and took us to some of the best food spots in the city. Besides the great food, Guus had a lot of interesting stories to tell about the city itself, which was great to listen to going from place to place. If you enjoy learning a bit about foreign culture as experiences by locals, and are curious about the Dutch food scene, this is the tour for you!

From the owner: Taste the best local food while exploring the city center of Utrecht, that's what Street Food Tour…read moreUtrecht is all about. During A 3 hour tour, you'll see the city and taste and learn about all kinds of great Dutch food. The tour is a 4 km walk and will cover the beautiful historical city center of Utrecht What's included: * All the food, snacks and a drinks * Private tour guide / local food expert * Stories about our local delicacy's * 45,- euro per person

So there we were, in Amsterdam chatting with other folks from the hotel. They spoke about food tour…read moreand we've done them before as well so we decide to delve in. After a bunch of research we decide on hungry birds, and it was a good decision. Our guide for the tour was Anne, as you proved to be a little ball of positive energy that was totally appreciated. She handled controversial issues well, and introduced us to many of the tastes of the market. We tasted everything from fresh Herring to smoke deal to sought after, cookies and we seem to have a back door, no line access to everything. If you'd like to stop reading now is a good point but know that we are big fans of Angry Birds We met at the designated location, introduced ourselves to the other people on the tour and then Anne showed up. She arrived bearing cookies, and my wife and I had actively sought out these cookies just the day before as we had seen them on Instagram. We waited for 15 minutes in line to buy our Van Stapele cookies and here she was showing up with a fresh batch to share with us to get the party started. It was a great start. We then moved onto multiple quality tastes. My wife, ever the brave soul, volunteered to taste the whole fresh Herring that was offered to her, served in the traditional fashion of the seasonal run of the fresh Herring. So it arrived on a plate with onions and pickles, and Leah was taught how to hold the Herring by picking it up from its tail, adding the onions and the pickles and then taking a bite. Mind you the fish had been deboned and cleaned, but it looked every bit of a fish without the head. I volunteered to try a couple of bites as well and enjoyed it. This was at the Volendammer Vishandel, and there was no doubt about the fish being fresh as the place was very busy I don't want to go on and on and ruin your trip to the food tour and so I'll stop here but the combination of the energetic tour guide and the unique stories told made it a very quick four hour tour that I would encourage my friends to take.

I can't say enough good things about this tour. From the start Esther made a point to connect to…read moreeach person and check in throughout the tour to see how we were doing. It was a family adventure with our kids and my mom, 80yo, and everyone had a great time. The food was amazing but made better as we learned about the history and influences in the neighborhood and country.

Their website says it is a tour you will never forget...and that may very well be the case! With 22…read morevery low bridges, you will not only have to duck, but may have to crouch on the floor since there is one specific bridge that the boat itself (and seat backs) barely fit under and you can here the cars over head. Though it is a great tour and great experience, I would not recommend this to the elderly, or anyone that gets claustrophobic! I'll admit, I even got scared at times. Our captain was lovely and she gave the tour in at least Dutch and English, there may have been German as well. But the sights are worth the trip, and we were very happy with the price as well.

From the owner: Zoals de naam al doet vermoeden verzorgen wij rondvaarten door de grachten van Alkmaar. Dit is een…read moreleuke en spannende manier om de stad beter te leren kennen. Samen met een kapitein en een gids vaart u 45 minuten door Alkmaar. In deze tijd proberen wij u een beeld te geven over hoe Alkmaar is, en hoe Alkmaar was. Deze rondvaart is ook erg geschikt voor kinderen. Ze hoeven namelijk niet stil te zitten. Tijdens de tocht komen wij 22 bruggen tegen waar ook zij voor moeten bukken. Hierdoor is de tocht een ervaring om nooit meer te vergeten! Vertrek vanaf de Mient, schuin tegenover het Waaggebouw. Voor vragen kunt u mailen met info@rondvaartalkmaar.nl of even bellen met 0653714608

This was an excellent tour. The best of all of my experiences in Amsterdam. The owner, Bart, saved…read moremy life! I could not find a meeting address through the site that I purchased my ticket on so I stupidly went to the tour address- which was actually his home address. I could have met with the group only 2 miles away from my hotel. Bart came to pick me up as I was now only 10 minutes away from the tour office. He brought me safely to the bus meetup spot. Completely my mistake and I am eternally grateful for the help he provided to me. Beyond that our guide, Maria, was amazing! She was friendly, warm, thoughtful. knowledgeable and professional. She thought of everything. She even got a picture of the group together. She gave the tour wearing her own pair of clogs. She knew the history and purpose of every windmill. She gave helpful suggestions. She was patient with all of us. I would definitely recommend this tour to anyone. I would go in it again if I ever return to Amsterdam.

While in Amsterdam, my family of 4 booked a Zaanse Schans Small-Group Half-Day Tour. The group met…read moreat a local coffee shop. Our guide and driver were very friendly and had such great senses of humor! The guide was knowledgeable of the history of the area and showed us many points of interest. During the tour I felt safe- she reminded us to drink plenty of water and to mind our personal belongings. The reason for only 4 stars: the driver smelled very strongly of cigarette smoke which took away from the experience a bit for me. I would highly recommend Zaan Tours.

This was a good tour that started rather inauspiciously as our small group was blocked twice from…read moreentering the Red Light District due to a heavy police presence and an on-site uniformed forensics team collecting physical evidence. It turned out that a working prostitute was stabbed to death by a customer while inside her window space just a matter of minutes before our group arrived. On a third try geographically farther down we successfully entered Amsterdam's main Red Light District. Different than Hamburg, where women are not allowed inside the city's designated Red Light District, here men and women are permitted to congregate together, and bars and restaurants abound in addition to sex shops, live shows, and working girls standing in windows along narrow alleyways off main streets. The women showing themselves to potential customers were by and large tall and quite attractive. Except for the presence of the human window displays, a passerby might think he or she was just in any other fun area of a major metropolitan city. Tour guide Kimberly provided interesting facts and historical commentary about the district as Diane, I, and the rest of our group walked several blocks as sightseers. The atmosphere on the streets was convivial, as several loud bar goers could be seen and heard imbibing beer and other alcoholic beverages just inside the front of several taverns dotting a main street. Both tourists and locals were in abundance in the early evening when our 90-minute tour unfolded. It ended with an included drink at a local bar/restaurant just outside the Red Light District. From what we were told, this type of tour inside the district may soon be legislated out of existence by local lawmakers, and strong political interests are seeking to push the prostitutes out of this special zone altogether. The recent murder of a professional prostitute here in plain daylight will likely provide additional fodder for the critics who argue that prostitution is inherently dangerous, and should not be legally protected or allowed in a special authorized geographical zone. So, if such a tour as this is of interest, it should be booked very soon.

This was a great tour. It was hilarious and informative…read more It was best way to be a tourist incognito. And the best way to see the city at night with a local as your guide. Kim (the fantastic tour guide) takes you all around the city and shows you where to find the good coffeeshops, smartshops, bars, sex shops, live sex shows, hookers and anything else you'd like to spend your money on. Kim was friendly, funny and answered ANY questions we had. The tour lasted about an hour and a half and was €12.50. We went on the 10pm tour on a Saturday night and really had a good time. So thank you Kim, I'm an Amsterdam hooker specialist now thanks to you.