Robin Lenskens
Founder & guide
After graduating from TU Delft in 2023, Robin chose a different path. Not a career in engineering. Instead, he followed his passion for history & storytelling and founded Discover Delft, a tour company dedicated to showing Delft to a global audience.
With engaging tours, easy online booking and many positive reviews, Discover Delft quickly became the #1 local tour company. Soon the first guides were hired, each bringing in their own background, stories and specialties.
What started in one city expanded across the Netherlands, and Holland City Tours was born. Today, Robin and his team continue to share their passion for Dutch cities with travelers from around the world.
What our guests say about us
Every review below was left by a real guest on Google, Tripadvisor or GetYourGuide, across all three of our brands.
“Really enjoyable walking tour! The guide was engaging and brought the city to life with vivid stories, very easy to listen to. She also shared her personal experience as a student here, which led to great recommendations on what to do next. We also got a nice souvenir at the end.”
GetYourGuide · March 2026“Perry was fabulous. He answered all of our questions and had great stories to intersperse Into the history of the area.”
Viator · July 2026“Very knowledgeable and friendly guide; everyone liked him. Well organized. Thank you!”
GetYourGuide · May 2026We work with great local guides, in 6 languages
Our guides come from very different backgrounds and share one thing: a passion for history, culture and storytelling. They are the reason a tour with us feels like a day out with someone who knows the city, not a recital.
Between them they guide in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and Italian (in Maastricht and Middelburg: English, Dutch, German and French, other languages on request). Let us know your preferred language when you book.
Some of our guides
Below are some of our guides. Beyond them we work with a large network of local guides across the whole country, so wherever your tour goes, your guide knows that city.
Alberto
Alberto is a Political Science student at Leiden University. He is a passionate traveller with a keen interest in history, politics and economics, and he always connects what you see in the street to the bigger picture.
Federico
Federico is a linguist living in Leiden, so expect to hear the etymology of everything you walk past. Off tour he is an actor with a weakness for dramatic TV series, volleyball and other people’s cats.
Furat
Furat was born and raised in Delft and studies Physics at TU Delft. He is active, social and always up for meeting new people, whether he is rowing or travelling. That same energy carries straight into his tours.
Isis
Isis studies Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft and, next to guiding, manages Discover Delft’s social media. In her free time she is a passionate windsurfer and a painter, with Johannes Vermeer as her great hero. That creative eye is what makes the city come alive on her tours.
Jocelyn
Originally from Canada, Jocelyn came to the Netherlands to study Computer Science at TU Delft. She has since learned Dutch and spends her free time cooking, painting and jogging. She shows you the city as someone who arrived a stranger and made it home.
Joris
Joris is an engineer with a deep interest in art, architecture and cinema. He knows the Dutch Golden Age and the country’s colonial past well, and shares both with nuance and care.
Marco
Marco is a visual artist with a background in engineering. He was born in Genoa, spent many years in London and now lives in the Netherlands. That international eye gives his tours a creative and thoughtful touch.
Peter
Peter spent twenty years in Brussels working in campaigning and lobbying, and he now turns complex subjects into clear stories that connect history, politics, innovation, industry and culture. Originally from Limburg, he has lived in Delft for years, where he collects antiques and enjoys life with his dog.
Roos
Roos graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and has worked as a painter ever since. She lives in Pijnacker and loves gardening, playing the piano and chocolate. Her painter’s eye shapes the way she reads a city.
Valentin
Valentin studied architecture in Delft and now lives in The Hague. He loves the countless stories inscribed into a city, especially its architectural quirks, and points out the details most people walk straight past.
Victoria
Victoria is Austrian and studies International Studies in The Hague. Her tours look at globalisation, colonialism and the part the Netherlands played in both. She is learning Swahili and works in a cheese shop, so she also knows exactly which cheese you should take home.
Yannis
Yannis is German-French, born and raised in Munich and now studying Transportation at TU Delft. He is happiest outdoors, hiking, skiing, travelling and taking photos, and brings that same enthusiasm to a city’s history and geography.
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