The pleasure of Amsterdam is at street level: the leaning gables, the bicycles, the bridges and the courtyards you would walk straight past without someone to open the door. This four-hour walk crosses the old city from the harbour to De Pijp, with cheese to taste on the way and time for coffee.
The tour covers:
Please note that the tour order and the time spent at each venue may vary.
Meeting by the ship
Meeting by the ship. The start time of the tour is given approximately and will be adjusted depending on your ship arrival time. The exact meeting time will be specified on your confirmation letter.
St Nicholas Basilica
St Nicholas Basilica opposite the Central Station, finished in 1887 and named for the patron saint of sailors and of the city. Its neo-baroque front, with two towers and a rose window, is the first thing most arrivals used to see.
Dam Square and the Royal Palace
Dam Square, where the dam that gave the city its name was thrown across the Amstel around 1270. The Royal Palace on its west side was built between 1648 and 1665 as the town hall of a republic grown rich on trade, and its scale was meant to say so; the Nieuwe Kerk beside it is where Dutch monarchs are still crowned.
The canal ring
The canal ring, dug in three great arcs during the 17th century and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2010. There are about a hundred and sixty-five canals, more than a thousand bridges and some two and a half thousand houseboats. The tall narrow houses along them were taxed on their width, which is why they are deep and thin and lean forward on hoisting beams.
Hidden courtyards
The hofjes, courtyards of almshouses built by rich merchants for elderly women and hidden behind plain street doors, which are among the quietest corners in any European city.
Cheese tasting
A stop to taste Dutch cheeses, from young gouda to aged farmhouse rounds with the crystals that come with years.
The Jordaan
The Jordaan, laid out in 1612 for workers, artisans and immigrants and long the poorest quarter in the city. Rembrandt died here in a rented room. It is now a grid of narrow canals, small galleries, brown cafes and courtyard almshouses, and it shows the ordinary Dutch city better than any monument does.
De Pijp
The walk ends in De Pijp, thrown up quickly in the 1870s for workers and now the most mixed quarter in the city, with the Albert Cuyp street market running through the middle of it.
The meeting point is located in the cruise terminal building. Please, make sure to read disembarkation instructions sent through email with other documentation.
| People | Price per person |
|---|---|
| 1 | €434 |
| 2 | €217 |
| 3 | €150 |
| 4 | €112 |
| 5 | €90 |
| 6 | €77 |
| 7 | €71 |
| 8 | €62 |
| People | Price per person |
|---|---|
| 9 | €55 |
| 10 | €50 |
| 11 | €45 |
| 12 | €42 |
| 13 | €38 |
| 14 | €36 |
| 15 | €33 |
| 16 | €31 |
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