Packages
If you are looking for a guided tour of the Zaanse Schans, a boat tour on the Zaan, lunch with a view of the windmills, a bicycle trip through the Dutch polders, or a guided tour combined with a visit to the museum, then take a look at all the options presented here or download our brochure.
Packages at the Zaanse Schans
Typically Dutch
Guided tour of the Zaanse Schans
> 10 people
Take in the world-famous Dutch landscape during a walk with a tour guide along the Zaanse Schans. Visit a windmill and discover traditional Dutch crafts such as sailcloth weaving, cheese making, and clog making.
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours | Daily
Price per person:
Dutch-speaking guide €10 | Other languages €12
Includes: guided tour of the Zaanse Schans, admission to a windmill and the Weaver’s House, visit to a cheese maker or clog maker.
Typically Dutch Plus
Guided tour of the Zaanse Schans plus boat trip
> 10 people
Add a boat trip with Windmill Cruises to the ‘Typically Dutch’ package. On board, you will hear all about the history of the windmills and the rich industrial past of the Zaan region.
Duration: approx. 2.5 hours | Daily
Price per person:
Dutch-speaking guide | Adults €17 | Children aged 4 to 11 years €15
Other languages | Adults €19 | Children aged 4 to 11 years €17
Included: guided tour of the Zaanse Schans, admission to a windmill and the Weaver’s House, visit to cheese maker or clog maker, boat trip with Windmill Cruises
Zaans Museum lunchtime package
Zaans Museum & De Kraai restaurant
> 10 people
Experience the rich history of the Zaan region in the Zaans Museum. Visit the Verkade Experience where you are transported back to the chocolate and biscuit factory of the early twentieth century, and where the original machines are still churning away. Complete your visit with a sumptuous lunch at De Kraai restaurant on the Zaanse Schans. We have a special ‘yummy’ package for children.
Duration: approx. 2.5 hours | Daily
Price per person:
Adults €24.50 | Children aged 12 to 17 years €22 | Children aged 4 to 11 years €15
Includes: admission to the Zaans Museum, lunch at De Kraai restaurant: vegetable soup, pancake of choice, coffee/tea, fresh fruit. Lunch for children up to 11 years: pancake to decorate, squash, ice cream.
Zaanse Schans Experience
Museums, demonstrations, windmill & boat trip
>10 people
Just a stone’s throw from Amsterdam, the Zaan region developed into Western Europe’s first industrial area. There was a time when there were over 600 active windmills here! The Zaanse Schans Experience shows you everything there is to know about this rich history. Pay a visit to the museums, craft demonstrations, and a windmill of your choice. Enjoy a great cup of coffee or tea or a soft drink at the Museum Café and sail past the windmills with Windmill Cruises.
Duration: approx. 2.5 hours | Daily
Price per person:
Adults €25 | Children aged 12 to 17 years €22 | Children aged 4 to 11 years €17
Includes: Zaanse Schans Card (including admission to all museums and a windmill of your choice at the Zaanse Schans), coffee/tea/soft drink at the Museum Café, boat trip with Windmill Cruises
Zaanse Schans tasting session (18+)
Dutch delicacies & home-made liqueurs
> 10 people
The food industry made the Zaan region world-famous. Experience the history of the food industry in the Zaans Museum and make a customized Verkade chocolate bar. You can then enjoy a tasting session complete with traditional Dutch delicacies at the Zaanse Schans. Taste hot chocolate at the Cocoa Lab, traditional Dutch cakes and biscuits at the bakery museum, a pancake or pea soup at De Kraai restaurant, spices at De Huisman mill, and home-made liqueur at the Tweekoppige Phoenix.
Duration: approx. 2.5 hours | Daily
Price per person: Adults €33.50
Includes: Zaanse Schans Card (including admission to all museums and one windmill), tasting sessions at various locations around the Zaanse Schans.
Chocolate Experience
Zaans Museum & Cocoa lab
>10 people
Indulge your sweet tooth! Enjoy a DIY hot chocolate at the Cocoa Lab and then take a stroll through the typically Dutch landscape of the Zaanse Schans to the Verkade Experience at the Zaans Museum. Discover how the Verkade girls made the most delicious chocolate and biscuits, and design a wrapper for a customized bar of Verkade chocolate.
Duration: approx. 2 hours | October to February, daily
Price per person: Adults €12.50 | Children aged 4 to 17 years €10
Includes: hot chocolate from the Cocoa Lab, admission to the Zaans Museum, Verkade chocolate bar
Extra options at the Zaanse Schans
Lunch/dinner
Workshops
– Making cocoa at the Cocoa lab
– Soap-making at the soap works
– Clog painting
– Traditional Dutch games
Zaandam packages
Verkade Tour
Verkade Experience, Verskade market & boat trip
> 10 people
Combine a visit to the old Verkade Factory in Zaandam with a visit to the Verkade Experience at the Zaans Museum! Discover how the Verkade girls made the tastiest biscuits and chocolate. After a stroll along the Zaanse Schans, take the boat trip across the Zaan river to the Verskade market at the Verkade Factory. Here you can enjoy all the wonderful products that this market has to offer. After that you take the boat back to the Zaanse Schans.
Duration: approx. 3 hours | Thursdays to Sundays
Price per person: Adults €16 | Children ages 4 to 17 years €13.50
Includes: admission to the Zaans Museum, return boat trip Zaanse Schans to Zaandam, visit to the Verskade market (food and drinks not included).
Hembrug Experience
Guided tour of Hembrug & boat tour
>10 people
Discover the secret of Holland! Cruise from Amsterdam Central Station to the Hembrug site, enjoying a cup of coffee or tea on board. At Hembrug, a guide will take you on a journey through the Hembrug site which, as the military heart of the Defence Line of Amsterdam (Stelling van Amsterdam), had been completely sealed off from the outside world for many years. Walking past the monumental buildings and the Hembrug Museum you will be told the story of the former munitions factory of the Dutch Ministry of Defence.
Duration: approx. 2 hours | Thursdays to Sundays
Price per person: Dutch-speaking guide €15
Includes: boat trip from Amsterdam Central Station, guided tour of Hembrug site
Tsaar Peter Tour
Tsar Peter House & boat trip
> 10 people
Discover the Russian history of Zaandam. Cruise from Amsterdam Central Station to the centre of Zaandam. Visit the Tsar Peter House in Zaandam, where Tsar Peter (Peter the Great) lodged for seven days in 1697. Built in 1632 in the Golden Agee, the Tsar Peter House in Zaandam is one of the oldest wooden houses in the Netherlands. With this short stay, the Tsar made this little wooden house famous across the world. Return journey by train or bus (at your own expense).
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours | Thursdays to Sundays
Price per person: Adults €7.50 | Children aged 4 to 17 years €6.50
Included: admission to the Tsar Peter House, boat trip Amsterdam-Zaandam
View the times of the boat trips here .
City tour of Zaandam
Guided Monet tour & Tsar Peter House
> 10 people
The world-famous French painter Claude Monet stayed in Zaandam for four months in 1871. While here, he produced twenty-five paintings and nine sketches. This walk through the centre of Zaandam follows in the footsteps of Monet. A guide will lead you from the Tsar Peter House, past the Blue House (the subject of one of his paintings), to the MonetAtelier, which displays reproductions of all Monet’s paintings of the Zaan region.
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours | Sundays 2:30-3:30 PM
Price per person: All ages €12.50
Includes: guided Monet tour, admission to the Tsar Peter House, admission to the MonetAtelier
Monet boat tour
MonetAtelier, Zaans Museum, and boat trip
>10 people
See the Zaan region through the eyes of Claude Monet!! The famous French painter stayed in Zaandam for four months in 1871. While here, he produced twenty-five paintings and nine sketches. Visit the MonetAtelier, where you can watch a film about Monet in Zaandam while enjoying a cup of coffee or tea, amidst reproductions of all Monet’s Zaan-region paintings, and then enjoy a boat trip from the centre of Zaandam to the Zaanse Schans where you’ll visit the Zaans Museum and see Claude Monet’s painting The Voorzaan and the Westerhem. Return journey by train or bus (at your own expense).
Duration: approx. 3 hours | Sundays starting at 10:00 AM
Price per person: Adults €25 | Children aged 4 to 11 years €15
Includes: cup of coffee/tea at MonetAtelier, admission to MonetAtelier and Zaans Museum, boat trip from Zaandam to the Zaanse Schans
For kids
Children’s party
Celebrate your birthday at the Zaans Museum
Put on work clothing and get to work at Verkade! Imagine you’re a Verkade girl, a biscuit baker, or a chocolate expert. Discover how tricky it is to keep the digital biscuit oven running, and test your dexterity with the games.
School trips
Take your class to the Zaanse Schans! Discover traditional crafts, visit a windmill or discover how the most delicious cookies and chocolates are made at the Verkade Experience.
