Tulips wonderful but the tour to the cheese & windmills had issues

Guide was very nice but not very informative - keep asking us if we had questions. He should have had a plan in place and telling us about where we were going and about Amsterdam, etc. Cheese place quick and nice however it is a place they stop so you will spend money. The windmill village had this same type of cheese demonstration. Not enough time in the windmills to visit them all and we did not even get to see the wooden shoe maker because our guide asked us to wait until the end and then 3 buses showed up and he said you can wait but it will be long wait now and suggested we not. When we first arrived at the village there was no one at the wooden shoe demo and no reason for us to have missed it. Keukenhof was wonderful and we did have enough time there.

While my guide was kind and helpful, I was disappointed with the tour and, if given the chance, I would not do it again. Keukenhof was pretty, but we spent too many hours there (the whole tour group seemed to think so, as we all wandered back to the van early). The dairy farm was interesting, but we spent MAYBE 3 minutes learning about the cheese-making process and then ended up in a gift shop. The "clog-maker" visit was also just another gift shop. There was nothing special about this tour—I wish I would have rented a car and explored on my own or try another small group tour with another company. I felt like most of the day was a waste.

Very busy ride.