The Netherlands Travel Agents

The guides were terrific. Itinerary was well planned. The only disappointment was the hotel in Amsterdam. Hotel 717 was beautiful with excellent staff and lovely breakfast. However, it was a 4th floor walk up with no lift and we were on the 4th floor with very steep stairs. They were unable to change our room. We managed.

Hotel Reviews

Hotel 717

Amsterdam

Beautiful historic hotel but no lift!

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Walked to everything

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Hotel de Tuilerieën

Bruges

Unable to stand in the shower because of slippery marble floor. Wore flip-flops to shower! Great breakfast. Staff was often not helpful. Refused to give us a second luggage rack.

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Walked to everything

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Activity Reviews

Public Transport Pass Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Didn’t use it. Walked to everything

Amsterdam - Private guided walking tour on Jewish History

Amsterdam

Guide was very knowledgeable and pleasant.

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Amsterdam - Jewish Museum & Portuguese Synagogue

Amsterdam

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Amsterdam - Private canal cruise to Rijksmuseum

The Netherlands

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Amsterdam - Anne Frank House

The Netherlands

Special

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Amsterdam - Rijksmuseum

The Netherlands

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Amsterdam - Van Gogh Museum

The Netherlands

Not to be missed!

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Amsterdam - Daytrip to Marken, Volendam, Edam and Zaanse Schans

Amsterdam

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Bruges - Private guided walking tour

The Netherlands

Very, very informative and made us really appreciate Bruges. Roland’s was exceptional.

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All of the individual guides were wonderful...warm, personal, knowledgeable, informative, courteous.

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Hotel Mai Amsterdam

Amsterdam

We loved it. Conveniently located near the train station and our room overlooked a quiet, beautiful canal.

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Very friendly and helpful staff

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The James Hotel Rotterdam

Rotterdam

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9Hotel Central

Brussels

We had a balcony with a beautiful view of the boulevard.

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Public Transport Pass Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Very easy to navigate

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Amsterdam - Canal cruise (join in)

The Netherlands

Our captain was terrific...funny, informative. The trip was beautiful.

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Amsterdam - Van Gogh Museum

The Netherlands

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Amsterdam - Grand Dutch Food Tour in small group

The Netherlands

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Amsterdam - Day trip to Haarlem

Amsterdam

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Amsterdam - Anne Frank House

The Netherlands

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Haarlem - self-guided cycling route to Keukenhof & through tulip fields

The Netherlands

This was an exceptional experience. We used E-bikes and highly recommend them.

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Rotterdam

The Netherlands

We loved it here. We wish we had booked a short, guided tour of the city/architecture/market.

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Rotterdam - Kinderdijk windmills by public boat (waterbus)

The Netherlands

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Delft - Delft blue pottery

The Netherlands

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Delft - Vermeer Center

The Netherlands

It was interesting. We were expecting an original Vermeer or two but we liked the experience.

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Brussels - Private guided walking tour: food

The Netherlands

We loved our private guide, Florence I believe was her name. She was friendly, fun, interesting.

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Brussels - Day trip to Ghent and Bruges

Brussels

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Ghent - Gravensteen - Castle of the Counts

The Netherlands

We loved this place and especially the audio tour that led us around the castle. Hilarious and informative.

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Brussels - Bus tour to Dinant & Luxembourg City

Brussels

This was a lovely day. A large group on the bus but the tour guide was fantastic and kept it all very organized and orderly. We're so glad we included Luxembourg and Dinant in our itinerary.

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Amsterdam was amazing . And the itinerary Kim Kim put together was perfect . Enables us to go and show up with minimal to no prior research . Hotel was prime location , central and close to all transport , walking distance to millions restaurants . The canal ride is a must , and we would not have known to do the evening sunset one , which was a real treat . The city food tour was a wonderful way to spend the day . We learned a lot , and saw the best of Amsterdam . Well laid out and paced . Just delightful . We had incredible weather , which made the days and flowers perfection . Ann Frank house is not to be missed . And very grateful Kim Kim facilitated as well as got us to get our act together , to be able to get the tickets . Museums , walking , shopping , markets . All great . The public transportation is amazing , and makes it so easy to get around ..

This was my third trip with Kim Kim , so I’m a big fan .
The only thing I would say , although the price of the trip seemed reasonable , as we were there and knew what things cost , it did seem like Kim Kim overcharged. All for them making money , but the distribution didn’t feel good . Which was a little disappointing .

I enjoyed exploring Amsterdam and Haarlem. The art, tulips, the atmosphere and the people were all quite enjoyable.

The entire trip was truly spectacular. There was one major, glitch, but Mieke responded very quickly. And they even refunded us for the mistake. I thought that was the right thing to do and they responded immediately. That to me is very important My tip is always check the train schedule, apparently they change it without any notice. We missed our first Eurostar train, but the conductor of the second time slot was nice enough to let us on and even gave us free drinks because we were so frazzled.
Other than that , everything went well. We love staying in Haarlem. Such a wonderful little town and everyone is so friendly and accommodating.. The Canal tour was great and the Anne Frank house was extremely interesting, very somber, but something you had to see.
We loved loved loved our grand Dutch Food Tour with Mark, he was amazing. It was so nice that it was private, just the three of us. Actually, all the tours were private, which made it really a lot better than being in a group.We tasted foods I would’ve never tried, and they were quite good,. What we love the most is he took us to places that tourists do not frequent. It was such a treat. I thought four hours would be so long, but he made it go by so quickly. That was truly a highlight of the trip.
Going to Keukenhof was also a highlight, it was so beautiful, you couldn’t help but smile.. love love love those gardens. Even though they were closing in two days, it didn’t matter we saw some absolutely stunning tulips as well as other flowers in bloom.
When we got to Bruges we had a 2 PM walking tour, but we were late because of all the mishaps along the way and the tour guide. Roland was very accommodating and pushed it back an hour for us. For us, the tour guide was a little boring as was the tour. The content was nothing we were interested in. He spoke a lot about the construction of the old buildings and the bricks and stones that they used. It just wasn’t for us. Perhaps someone else would’ve found it interesting. After we were done with that tour, we roamed around the city and had such a good time. We took a horse and buggy ride, we had a canal tour, we loved the Canal tours. We did a beer tasting and got very silly.
Sunday we went to the Choco factory museum, we found that very boring. I wouldn’t suggest going there. We skipped our day trip to Damme so that we could walk around Bruges but little did we know most of the stores are closed on Sunday, but we made the best of it.
Monday we went to Ghent, our tour guide Veerle was wonderful, she was so informative and had a lovely personality. We really liked her.
After that, we went to the Galvesteen Castle.
Part of it was interesting, but we went through it quickly, it was a little boring for us.
We really really loved the Canal boat tours, we actually took four of them during the entire trip.
I’m sure I left some things out but all in all we had an excellent time and beat the Dutch travel and Mieke we’re great. I would definitely use them again.

Activity Review

Amsterdam - Private Grand Dutch Food Tour

The Netherlands

This is a definite must do, a private tour is the way to go. Mark, our tour guide was amazing.

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