Packages
If you are looking for a guided tour of the Zaanse Schans, a boat tour of 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 see all the options here!
Packages at the Zaans Museum
A chocolate experience
October up to and including February, daily
Indulge your sweet tooth! Enjoy a DIY chocolate milk at the Cocoa Lab and then take a stroll through the typically Dutch landscape of the Zaanse Schas to the Zaans Museum. Discover how the most delicious chocolates and biscuits were made, and design a wrapper and create a personalized bar of Verkade chocolate.
Duration: approx. 2 hours
October to February, daily
Price per person:
Adults €12.50
Children aged 4-12 €10
Museum pass €4
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Includes: hot chocolate from the Cocoa Lab, admission to the Zaans Museum, chocolate bar
Zaans Museum lunch package
Zaans Museum & lunch at 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 the visit with lunch at De Kraai restaurant on the Zaanse Schans.
Duration: approx. 2.5 hours
Daily
Price per person:
Adults €24.50
Children aged 4-12 €21.95
Museum pass €15.95
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Includes: admission to the Zaans Museum, lunch at De Kraai restaurant (vegetable soup, pancake of choice, coffee/tea, fresh fruit).
Verkade Tour
Verkade Experience, De Verskade market & boat trip
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 most delicious chocolates and biscuits and design a wrapper for a personalized bar of Verkade chocolate. After a stroll through the Zaanse Schans, take a boat cruise over the Zaan river to the Verskade market in the Verkade Factory. Here you can enjoy all the wonderful products that this market has on offer. View the times of the boat cruises here.
Duration: approx. 3 hours
Tuesday to Sunday
Price per person:
on request
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Includes: admission to the Zaans museum, customized Verkade chocolate bar, boat cruise Zaanse Schans – Zaandam, visit to the Verskade market (food and drinks not included).
Season packages 2018
Zaans Museum & boat tour
Visit the Zaans Museum and enjoy a delicious cup of coffee or tea or a soft drink at the Museum Café. After a walk through the Zaanse Schans, take a boat tour over the Zaan river through the oldest industrial area of Western Europe. The windmills and factories can be seen from the boat and are reminiscent of the region’s industrial heritage.
Duration: approx. 2.5 hours
April to July and September; Tuesdays to Sundays
July to August; daily
Price per person:
Adults €17.50
Children aged 4-12 €11
Children aged 13-17 €15
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Includes: admission to the Zaans Museum, coffee/tea/soft drink at the Museum Café, boat tour over the Zaan river.
Packages at the Zaanse Schans
Typically Dutch
Guided tour of the Zaanse Schans
> 10 people
Take in the beautiful Dutch landscape during a walk with a tour guide through 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 guide €9.50
Other languages €11
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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 boat tour package
Guided tour & boat tour
> 10 people
Supplement the Typically Dutch experience with a boat tour of the Zaan river including a cup of tea or coffee on board. The captain gives an exciting talk about the rich industrial heritage of the Zaan region.
Duration: approx. 2.5 hours
April to June and September; Tuesdays to Sundays
July to August; daily
Price per person:
Dutch guide €18.50; Children aged 2-11 €13.50
Other languages €20; Children aged 2-11 €15
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Includes: guided tour of the Zaanse Schans, admission to a windmill and the Weaver’s House, visit to a cheese maker or clog maker, and a boat tour of the Zaan river including a cup of coffee or tea on board.
Zaanse Schans boat tour
A visit to the Zaanse Schans and a boat tour
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! At the Zaanse Schans you can learn everything there is to know about this illustrious past. Visit a windmill of your choice, the Zaans Museum, and discover the many different traditional crafts. Complete the experience with a boat tour of the Zaan river.
Duration: approx. 3 hours
Daily
Price per person:
Adults €25
Children aged 4-12 €15
Children aged 13-17 €20
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Includes: Zaanse Schans Card, boat tour of the Zaan river
Optional extras: lunch at De Kraai restaurant or De Hoop op d’ Swarte Walvis
Guided tours of the Zaanse Schans
> 10 people
If you would like to explore the Zaanse Schans with an experienced tour guide, tours are available in a selection of languages. View the options!
Tasting tour of the Zaanse Schans 18+
> 10 people
The food industry brought fame and fortune to the Zaan region. Enjoy a tasting session with traditional Dutch delicacies at the Zaanse Schans. Taste chocolate milk at the Cocoa Lab, traditional Dutch baked goods at the bakery museum, a pancake or pea soup at De Kraai restaurant, spices at De Huisman mill, liqueur at the Tweekoppige Phoenix, and a Verkade chocolate bar at the Zaans Museum.
Duration: approx. 2.5 hours
Daily
Price per person (adults only):
€19.50
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Includes: Zaanse Schans Card, various tastings at different locations at the Zaanse Schans
Cocoa & Liqueur 18+
Make cocoa & taste liqueur
> 10 people
Cocoa and liqueur are a match made in heaven. During the cocoa-making workshop at the Zaans Gedaan Cocoa Lab, you create your own little flavour explosion, which is followed by a tasting of three liqueurs in the Tweekoppige Phoenix at the Zaanse Schans.
Duration: approx. 2 hours
Daily
Price per person:
Adults €37.50
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Includes: cocoa-making workshop at the Cocoa Lab, tasting of three liqueurs at the Tweekoppige Phoenix
Cycling packages
Zaanse Schans cycling package
> 10 people
There is nothing more Dutch than cycling! Start the day with a great cup of coffee or tea at the Zaans Museum and get on your bicycle with a well-filled lunch box.
Enjoy the beautiful cycling routes that snake through the Zaan landscape and the polders of North Holland.
Duration: various distances
Daily
Price per person:
on request
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Includes: bicycle rental, organic lunch box
Optional extras: Zaanse Schans Card
Tour de Monet bicycle package
Guided tour > 10 people
Discover Claude Monet’s Zaandam by bike! The tour begins with a visit to the Zaans museum, where you can see one of the Zaan works by this famous French painter. After a visit to dye mill De Kat where you learn about oil paint and pigments, you cycle to the city centre of Zaandam. Here you will follow the Monet walking tour and visit Monet’s studio, with reproductions of all the paintings the artist produced here on display.
Duration: approx. 15 km
Thursdays to Sundays
Price per person:
on request
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Includes: bicycle rental, guided Monet tour, and admission to the Zaans Museum, MonetAtelier, and dye mill De Kat.
A walk through the polders
Kalverpolder summer walk
Pull on your Wellingtons and explore the peat bogs! We have selected a beautiful walking route in the Kalverpolder nature reserve which borders the Zaanse Schans. You start the day with a good cup of coffee, tea, or soft drink at the Zaans Museum and finish off with a pancake at De Kraai restaurant at the Zaanse Schans. Bring your own Wellingtons or other boots!
Duration: approx. 3 hours
July and August; daily
Price per person:
on request
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Includes: coffee/tea/soft drink at the Zaans Museum, walking route through the Kalverpolder, and a pancake at De Kraai restaurant.
Kalverpolder winter walk
The Zaanse Schans and the Kalverpolder are a wonderland in the winter months. Get a breath of fresh air in the Zaan landscape. Start off with a hot chocolate at the Zaans Museum and then go for a walk through the Kalverpolder nature reserve. After the walk you can warm up with a hot bowl of traditional Dutch pea soup at De Kraai restaurant. Bring your own Wellingtons or other boots!
Duration: approx. 3 hours
October to February; daily
Price per person:
on request
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Includes: hot chocolate at the Zaans Museum, walking route through the Kalverpolder, pea soup at De Kraai restaurant
Packages in the Zaandam city centre
Monet Safari
Guided tour
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. The safari through the centre of Zaandam follows in the footsteps of Monet. On this guided tour you walk from the Tsar Peter House, past the Blue House, to the MonetAtelier, which displays reproductions of all Monet’s paintings of the Zaan region. Complete the safari with a lovely cup of coffee or tea.
Duration: approx. 2 hours
Sundays
Price per person:
Adults €15
Children aged 4 to 11 €7.50
Children aged 0 to 3 free
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Includes: guided Monet-tour through the Zaandam city centre, admission to the MonetAtelier and Tsar Peter House, cup of coffee/tea
Monet Safari +
Guided tour & boat cruise
The Monet Safari can be combined with a boat cruise to the Zaanse Schans, where you’ll visit to the Zaans Museum and see Monet’s The Voorzaan and the Westerhem. View the times of the boat cruises here .
Duration: approx. 4 hours
Sundays
Price per person:
Adults €21.50
Children aged 4 to 11 €15
Children aged 0 to 3 free
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Includes: Monet Safari + boat cruise Zaandam-Zaanse Schans, admission to the Zaans Museum
Royal Zaandam
Visit to the museums & boat cruise
> 10 people
Discover royal Zaandam! Visit the Tsar Peter House in Zaandam, where Tsar Peter lodged for seven days in 1697. Built in 1632, 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. Take a boat cruise from the Zaandam city centre to the Zaanse Schans and visit the Zaans Museum. View the times of the boat cruises here .
Duration: approx. 3 hours
Tuesday to Sunday
Price per person:
Adults €15
Children aged 13 to 17 €12
Children aged 4 to 12 €10
Children aged 0 to 3 free
With the Museum pass €4
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Includes: admission to the Tsar Peter House and the Zaans Museum, boat cruise from Zaandam to the Zaanse Schans
