The day trip is highly recommended. A visit to Zaanse Schans allows you to visit a clog maker, a cheese factory (+ tasting different types of cheese) and visit beautiful windmills :) The restaurant targeted for lunch is not cheap, but really everything there looked very good and tasted great! Giethoorn is beautiful and incomparable when the weather is nice. Unfortunately we were there at a bad time. Tulip season is between March and May and late summer is also very flowery and colourful. The canal trip is great and Cherry (tour guide) also showed us pictures from other seasons and described it really vividly. In winter the canals can be frozen, sometimes the canal tour is replaced by ice skating in Giethoorn. Looked very interesting and unique at least in the pictures!

Really full day. Zaans Shans: Enjoyed clog making, cheese making and tasting, and exploring the working windmill to crush materials to make paint pigments. One of the best ethno-heritage parks I have visited. Giethoorn: we had a perfect weather day for a tranquil float on a small boat and stroll through this beautiful town.

Cherry was really nice and helpful from the start. She took great care of everyone and of group needs. She also offered some other tips where to go and what to experience in Amsterdam because she wanted everyone to have great time in Amsterdam. The tour was so originally made, Zaanse schans and Giethoorn where we had time for lunch, for the rest, shopping as well. Highly recommend this whole tour and Cherry with her profesionalism. And transportation is excellent, right on time and the bus was new and modern.