Holland City Tours
Holland City Tours
Destinations

Where would you like to go?

Start with the city, then pick the tour that fits. Every destination below has at least one private guided tour or self-guided audio tour.

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The Koppelpoort water gate in Amersfoort seen across the river

Amersfoort

Amersfoort has the most intact medieval street plan of any Dutch city its size, and one genuinely unusual feature: the Muurhuizen, a continu…

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The dome of the Basilica of Saint Nicholas reflected in an Amsterdam canal on an autumn morning, with gulls overhead

Amsterdam

Amsterdam needs less introduction than any city in this list, and more practical planning than most. The canal ring is UNESCO-listed, the mu…

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Kasteel Bouvigne mirrored in its moat on a bright winter morning, Breda

Breda

Breda has been the family seat of the House of Orange-Nassau since 1403, which is why the ancestors of the Dutch royal family are buried her…

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The Oude Delft canal in Delft, lined with trees and looking towards the leaning tower of the Oude Kerk

Delft

Delft is a small, walkable canal city between Rotterdam and The Hague, best known as the home of Johannes Vermeer and of Delft Blue pottery.…

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The Markt square in Den Bosch, with cafe terraces in front of the historic gabled houses

Den Bosch

's-Hertogenbosch, universally shortened to Den Bosch, is the most Burgundian city in the Netherlands: a cathedral covered in carved figures,…

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Canal houses along the Voorstraathaven in Dordrecht, with the stadhuis tower behind

Dordrecht

Dordrecht is the oldest city in Holland, granted its rights in 1220, and one of the least visited places of its quality in the country. It s…

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A guide talking to a small group on 18 Septemberplein in Eindhoven, with the Blob and the Philips Lichttoren behind

Eindhoven

Eindhoven is the one major Dutch city that is not about the seventeenth century. It was a village until Philips built a light-bulb factory h…

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The tower of the Sint-Janskerk seen from a street near the Markt, Gouda

Gouda

Gouda is a small old town with an outsized name, built on cheese, candles and clay pipes. Its market square is one of the finest in the coun…

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The Grote of Sint-Bavokerk on the Grote Markt in Haarlem on a sunny day

Haarlem

Haarlem is fifteen minutes from Amsterdam and feels a century removed from it: a Golden Age city built around one enormous church, with Fran…

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Visitors on the windmill viewing platform above the tulip beds at Keukenhof

Keukenhof

Keukenhof is a thirty-two hectare bulb garden in Lisse, planted afresh every autumn with around seven million bulbs and open for roughly eig…

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A small tour boat passing the Kinderdijk windmills along a reed-lined canal in summer

Kinderdijk

Kinderdijk is the largest concentration of historic windmills in the Netherlands: nineteen of them, built around 1740 to drain the Alblasser…

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Molen de Put windmill beside its yellow drawbridge, Leiden

Leiden

Leiden packs thirteen museums, the oldest university in the Netherlands and more than thirty-five hidden almshouse courtyards into a canal c…

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The Vrijthof square in Maastricht with the red tower of Sint-Janskerk and the Sint-Servaasbasiliek

Maastricht

Maastricht sits in the far south, closer to Brussels and Cologne than to Amsterdam, and it shows: Roman foundations, Burgundian squares, Cat…

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The late-Gothic town hall on the Markt square in Middelburg

Middelburg

Middelburg is the capital of Zeeland and, at the height of the Dutch East India Company, one of the most important cities in the country. It…

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Nijmegen seen across the Waal, with the Stevenskerk tower above the Waalkade quay

Nijmegen

Nijmegen is the oldest city in the Netherlands, granted Roman market and city rights by the Emperor Trajan around 100 AD, and it is also one…

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Rotterdam skyline with the Erasmusbrug and Kop van Zuid

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the one Dutch city that looks nothing like the postcard. Bombed flat in May 1940 and rebuilt without nostalgia, it is now the c…

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The tree-lined Lange Voorhout avenue in The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the seat of the Dutch government and of international justice, and the only major Dutch city with a beach of its own. It is a c…

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Long rows of parked bicycles along a canal in Utrecht, with church spires behind

Utrecht

Utrecht has the canal city Amsterdam visitors imagine, at half the scale and a fraction of the crowds. Its Oudegracht runs a full level belo…

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Timber house on stilts at the harbour in Volendam

Volendam & Marken

Volendam and Marken sit twenty minutes apart on the Markermeer, and most people see them as a pair. Volendam is the busy one: a working harb…

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The green wooden windmills of the Zaanse Schans along the water

Zaanse Schans

Zaanse Schans is a collection of windmills, wooden houses and workshops moved here from across the Zaan region and rebuilt as a living villa…

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Good to know

Frequently asked questions

Which places can you guide in?

The 20 destinations on this page, from Amsterdam and Rotterdam to Maastricht, Kinderdijk and Zaanse Schans. Each one has at least one private guided tour or a self-guided audio tour, and the destination page lists what is available there.

Can I combine more than one city in a day?

Yes, and it is what a lot of guests do. We run half-day tours that take in two cities and full-day tours that take in three, with the travel between them arranged for you and one guide for the whole day. If the combination you want is not listed, ask and we will put it together.

Are the tours private?

Every guided tour on this site is private, for your group only. You are never added to a tour with strangers, and the pace is set by you rather than by a fixed script. The shore excursions from Rotterdam Cruise Port are the one exception: those run as small groups, and can also be chartered privately.

Which languages are the tours available in?

English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and Italian. Tell us your preferred language when you book and we will match you with a guide who speaks it.

Can you pick us up from our hotel, or from another city?

Yes. We offer paid pick-up and drop-off within roughly 100 km (62 mi) of the tour's meeting point, which covers Amsterdam and most of the Randstad. You can add it during checkout or book it separately before your tour date. For longer distances, contact us for a quote.

Where do I find coach parking, luggage lockers and how to get there?

On the destination page itself. Every one of them has a practical section covering how to arrive by train, where coaches can set down and park, where to leave luggage, how long the centre takes to see, and what is worth building a day around.