Private tour in Amsterdam Walda B
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My name is Walda and I'm an ART HISTORIAN. I'm a museum and city guide and I teach art history since 1995. I'm an ensured TIDS (by IATA) travel agent and I'm a certified tourguide/hostess with more than 25 years of experience. I'M TOURSBYLOCALS NO. 1 GUIDE IN THE NETHERLANDS with more than 700 real five star reviews! Please contact me if you want a professional private guide to show you the best monuments and museum treasures in the Netherlands, for example in Amsterdam, our beautiful capital, or Nijmegen, the oldest city in the Netherlands. Whether you would like a long or short walking tour in Amsterdam, Delft, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Nijmegen or Maastricht, visit one, two or three museums - for example the Rijksmuseum or Van Gogh Museum - go sightseeing - windmills, tulips, fishermen villages - or see places related to your ancestors, by train, luxury car and professional driver or coach for a day or a week. . . whether you want to know more about the romans in Holland, see its beautiful churches or understand modern art. . . whether it is just you, your family and kids, or a group up to 15 people or more. . . If you want a professional tourguide with more than 25 years of experience, please let me prepare a customized tour for you in English or Dutch. Ask anything you want to, take a rest if you need to and enjoy the monuments, the art, the history and the many stories, everything that you want to see and hear! It's your tour! I assure you we'll have a wonderful time: I'm allround, professional, vivid, accurate, cheerful, well-mannered and fun! More interested in exclusive food tours? I encouraged my husband Rob B. for a long time to share his passion for food with travelers and to bring food tours on the ToursByLocals platform to the next level. In 2022, he finally accepted my call to share his love for food with you! PLEASE NOTE: I'm a private guide that offers private tours in the Netherlands. All my private tours are CUSTOM MADE. We can do more/less hours, private transportation (luxury car, minivan, coach and professional driver, a private antique salon boat in Amsterdam with our own captain and drinks onboard), extra places to visit, whatever you would like to see, eat, or do. Please tell me your preferences and I'll prepare the perfect tour for you! My credentials: - Master Art history and Archeology 1996 - professor International Tourism Management at TIO University - Certified TIDS (by IATA) travel agent - Certificate Hostess (and Tour guide) Euro Academy 1990 - Certificate of Proficiency in English, by University of Cambridge, London 1989 - Registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, since 1999 - Permit for guided tours in museums (when timeslots are available) - Official Permit City of Amsterdam for guided tours city center (Red Light District excluded) - Official Permit guided tours Keukenhof tulip gardens - Official Permit guided tours Old Church and New Church Delft - Official Permit guided tours Bruges (Belgium) - Member of ICOM (International Council of Museums) - Driver License - First Aid and AED And: - more than 25 years of experience - highest marketshare of all Toursbylocals guides in The Netherlands since 2017 - the quickest response to my guests of all Toursbylocals guides in The Netherlands - more than 700(!) real 5 star reviews!!! This makes me the no. 1 private guide in the Netherlands for Toursbylocals. My motto: don't follow just any guide, have your own private art historian! Please beware: anyone in Holland can call himself a tourguide, NO RESTRICTIONS! I'm an ART HISTORIAN, professionally trained guide, TIDS (by IATA) travel agent with more than 25 years experience, the highest marketshare since 2017 and 700+ 5 star reviews. Tour list: - Museum tours Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, Rembrandt House, Anne Frank House and more) - Museum tours outside Amsterdam (Frans Hals Museum Haarlem, Mauritshuis The Hague, Royal Delft in Delft, Kroller Muller Otterlo and more) - City walks in Amsterdam, Haarlem, The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam, Gouda, Utrecht, Den Bosch, Maastricht, Nijmegen (and more). - Boat tours in Amsterdam (private canal cruise on an antique salon boat) and Giethoorn - Daytrips into the countryside (Zaanse Schans or Kinderdijk windmills, Keukenhof tulip gardens and bulb fields, Edam, Volendam and more) - Daytrips or multiple day trips abroad (Ghent/Bruges/Antwerp/Brussels in Belgium, Aachen/Cologne in Germany, Unesco Heritage site places Europe) - Ancestry tours (including research beforehand) - wheelchair accessible tours - VIP private tour Gallery of Honour, Rijksmuseum, AFTER OPENINGS HOURS Please note: all my tours can be customized and they are in your own pace!
Have a question or want to customize this tour? Message Walda B.
This tour starts with a private antique salon boat along the canals in Amsterdam (UNESCO 2010). Your private art historian will tell you about Unesco's world heritage sites and their list of Intangible Culture Heritage. In 2017, the craft of a miller operating wind/watermills became the first typical Dutch tradition on that list, so off we go to Kinderdijk (first Dutch UNESCO 1997). In Rotterdam we will see the Van Nelle factory (2014) and in Utrecht area the Rietveld Schroder House (2000), the Roman Limes (2021) and Dutch Waterlinies (2021). Back in Amsterdam you can have a Rijsttafel for dinner. The next day we'll travel through the Beemster Polder (1999) over the Afsluitdijk with a view of the Wadden Sea (2009) to the Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker (2023), the Ir. Wouda Steam Pumping Station (1998) and the Colony of Benevolence in Veenhuizen (2021). If time allows we can explore more examples of typical Dutch traditions. All my tours are custom made; we can see all or just pick some and go deep!
Day 1: private canal cruise Amsterdam, Kinderdijk, Van Nelle Factory Rotterdam, Rietveld Schroder House/Roman Limes/Dutch Waterlinies in Utrecht area. 10 am-6 pm, including an antique salon boat, a luxury van with professional driver and your own art historian, plus ticket windmill Kinderdijk. Day 2: Beemster Polder, Wadden Sea, Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker, the Ir. Wouda Steam Pumping Station and the Colony of Benevolence in Veenhuizen. 10 am-6 pm including luxury van with professional driver and your own art historian, plus ticket for the Planetarium. All my tours are custom made; we can see all or just pick some and go deep! We can add more days to explore some typical Dutch traditions from the list of Intangible Culture Heritage (depending on season or day). Is your group bigger? I can rent a coach and driver. Just the 2 of you? You can hop in my small Citroen C1. I can send you a link for easy booking. Please contact me to discuss details.
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Included in this tour is a private canal cruise on an antique salon boat and a luxury van with a professional driver who will be with us all day for safe traveling and swift pick ups and drop offs. Is your group bigger or smaller? I can arrange a luxury rental car, a private coach and driver, or we can use my small car. Please contact me for a custom made tour according to your preferences.
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Let's meet in the lobby of your hotel in Amsterdam City center. I will wear my green Toursbylocals key cord, can't miss! Other locations (for example: Schiphol Airport, or your cruise terminal) possible on request, but an extra fee - for transportation and time - may apply.
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