Amsterdam Windmill Cycling Tour: Private Ecotour Exploring Landscape, Cheese Farm, Houseboats & More
4.8
65 Ratings
Weesp
Experience the best of Amsterdam on a private ecotour by bike. Explore windmills, a cheese farm, houseboats, and more in this sustainable and green cycling adventure.
Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Holland Discovery - Explore the Dutch landscape and countryside. The tour lasts approximately three hours. Our unique selling point: we cycle on safe, quiet, and wide bike paths with minimal traffic. No worries, I’ll be your guide :-)
  • Muiderslot - A medieval castle built in 1275. We won’t go inside, but it’s a great spot for photos!
  • Weesp - Discover windmills, canals, the Amsterdam Defence Line (a UNESCO World Heritage site), a skinny bridge, stunning houseboats and water villas, beautiful countryside, livestock (cows, sheep, goats, Dutch horses), birds, dairy farms, typical Dutch countryside houses (like those in Giethoorn), WWII bunkers, and more.
  • Molen de Vriendschap - Learn about windmills. Open on Saturdays.
  • Muiden - Enjoy a coffee or beer at one of Holland’s most famous brown cafés: Ome Ko (everyone loves it :-). Afterward, we’ll stop at the Amsterdam Castle (Muiderslot) for photos. Next, we’ll drink fresh, unpasteurized cold milk straight from the cow (it tastes like Italian ice cream). Muiden is a medieval city you won’t regret visiting!
  • Muiderberg - Visit Windmill De Onrust. Picturesque scenes like a Van Gogh painting are guaranteed!
  • De Groene Griffioen - Stop at a cheese farm. Taste and buy some of Holland’s best cheese. Feel free!
  • Muiderberg - Visit the Jewish cemetery. We only go here upon request (for those with a Jewish background).
What's Included
  • Comfortable cycling with a Bike Saddle Gel Cover
  • Personalized experience with a private guide
What's Not Included
  • Bike rent (15,- euro p bike). Please pay in cash to the guide. No digital payments accepted.
Additional Information

On this non-standard tourist trip, you’ll become immersed in Dutch culture. Lasting between 3 and 4 hours, this excursion blends the finest elements of various Amsterdam tours into a single bike tour. This green journey embarks on an environment-friendly path. Key highlights of this peaceful bike ride include windmills, a visit to a renowned cheesefarm (winners of the Holland cheese cup; here you can also taste fresh cow’s milk), houseboats, Amsterdam Castle (akin to Game of Thrones), the Skinny Bridge, forts, river bridges, characteristic Dutch wooden houses (‘zaanse schans’), and the Amsterdam defence line. Upon request, a visit to a Jewish cemetery can also be added.

Important: For a comfortable ride, we offer gel covers for the bike saddles.

Your guide, a native of Amsterdam, communicates effectively in English and also converses decently in German, Spanish, and Portuguese.

We promise a refund if you couldn’t get a solo photograph with the mesmerizing windmill, without any others in the shot.

Unique Selling Points: Safe, serene, and broad bike trails!

  • Operates in all weather conditions, we will bring you a poncho (just in case)
  • Important note: we use saddle gel covers to protect your butt:-) from saddle pain
Location
Stationsplein
Take the train to Weesp (15 minutes from Amsterdam Central Station). When you come down the stairs from the platform in Weesp, go to the exit on your right hand side and wait at the bench (if you come outside , the bench is on your left hand side). That's where I will meet you.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Mike_w
Oct 14, 2023
Top Notch!! - My wife and I, highly recommend! Remco was a terrific guide and gave us some great history behind all the great scenery. Not to mention we all had just great conversation and time riding together. We would do this tour again in a heartbeat.
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Sally_p
Sep 6, 2023
Easy and enjoyable - Remco gave us a wonderful private tour! It was educational and entertaining. We learned so much about Amsterdam and it's history. The bike ride was like riding through a movie, so picturesque and peaceful.
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I6703rrjuliaw
Aug 5, 2023
Highly recommend-- fun and memorable - We had an absolutely fantastic time with Remco. The route was fantastic and we really enjoyed all of the history, facts, and interesting (often amusing) side notes. Weesp and the neighboring town with castle are very special. The bikes fit us perfectly (we have 2 tall, 2 short in our family), which we all appreciated-- very comfortable . One highlight among many was tasting fresh milk and ice cream. It was everything I hoped it would be for our family-- a private tour, a great day biking (very good exercise) in fresh air with beautiful countryside. Very personal and also very professional. Fun and memorable. Highly recommend.
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Y2888oxmatthewc
Jul 22, 2023
Great ride! - A long, rambling bike ride through the country with the energetic and effusive Remco. Not only does he know a lot of great facts about the Netherlands, but he takes you on a lovely, scenic route through some picturesque countryside.
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Jeancz7281tu
May 15, 2023
What an awesome tour and tour guide!! - My husband and I absolutely loved this bike tour! Our tour guide Remco was so friendly! He made us feel very welcome, and he was amazing with the information about his country and showing us a beautiful countryside! He’s also a great photographer too and captured us with some awesome scenery. I highly recommend this tour! I wish Remco could be our tour guide for all the Netherlands!!
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Explorer19367011855
Apr 29, 2023
Postcard views! - It was a wonderful day. Our guide was fun and informative. It really surpassed my expectations. Highly recommend.
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Michael_s
Oct 12, 2023
Great sights…awful equipment - The sightseeing was awesome. The bike equipment was awful. Nothing more to say than that….other than the rating system requires 100 characters.
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Stephanie_f
Jul 13, 2023
Disappointing - save your money - The scenery was lovely but overall the tour was disappointing. We could have had similar experience renting a bike and doing a self guided tour (I would recommend this option - trails are well marked and easy to navigate). It cost $350CAD (4 people) plus additional 60 euros cash for bike rental (read this in the fine print). It was advertised as 3-4 hours and we were dropped off in 2 hours. We have done similar bike tours in many cities in Europe and have never been disappointed. In this case, we generally felt rushed and that our guide was not engaged at all.
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174sheriw
May 30, 2024
Proceed with caution this overpriced, under delivered “tour” - Pretty countryside tour, but a few things to note before you go: A) confirm the itinerary with the host before you go. We did not do at least 80% of what was advertised on TripAdvisor. When noted during the tour, our guide Franky blamed US for misinterpreting the details! There is no cheese tasting as promised, nor entry into castle grounds (just viewed from very afar). B) you must be an expert bike rider to sustain on this tour. My two friends and I were only presented 3 bikes and when we requested the seats to come down, he said that it was okay to have our legs hyper extended! Thankfully he helped my one friend out at a local bike shop because she insisted. Not the best way to begin a tour (telling the customer they should not feel the way they do!). Their “quiet bike paths with minimal traffic” were in fact very busy roads where pedestrians and drivers shared. We had to walk our bikes off the path twice to avoid begin hit by massive trucks! Not for the weary of heads. C) half the sites were closed or blocked off due to construction or other reason. It was a Thursday, so they should’ve offered some alternatives. D) the guide only offered personal stories, very minimal history or historical significance was discussed. At the end of the day, this tour is VERY overpriced for what you get, and god forbid you turn into one of the previous clients who fell into a ditch head first or had trouble operating the too-tall bike… It’s too bad, we had a set of expectations based on the tour description and were let down. Proceed with caution, or take your business elsewhere.
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Susan_l
Apr 23, 2023
rusty, broken bikes; not as billed; far-right conspiracy theorist guide - I wish there was a way to separate out the tour from the equipment and the guide. Overall, we enjoyed cycling in the countryside. BUT, we paid for a "private tour," and it was not. Not much we could do, on the spot. We paid $15 euro per bike rental fee, on top of activity fee, and that was laughable, because the bikes couldn't have been worth $15 euro each, never mind rental. Brakes literally squealing/broken, resulted in accident and injury; others on tour had bike seats that kept releasing and lowering, spontaneously (hence, the accident/injury). No bikes suitable for taller riders (and there's no shortage of tall people in The Netherlands). Guide expressed his views the government was trying to buy out farms to control the people through controlling the food chain, and climate change denialist. Can NOT get close to the castle that is depicted in tour/reviews. Rip off that could easily be fixed with standard operating bikes and not forcing group tour when billed as private. The ride itself was flat, easy, the towns and farms cute, but it felt like a scam.
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