Zaandam Netherlands North Holland
Netherlands

69 Cruises availables At departure or passage at this port

Avalon Waterways (12 Cruises)

Emerald Waterways (24 Cruises)

Riviera Travel (13 Cruises)

Uniworld Boutique River Cruise (20 Cruises)


Frequently Asked Questions

The river quay runs alongside the centre of Zaandam, right next to the railway station. You step ashore minutes from the Tsar's cottage and the main shopping street.
Yes, easily: the station beside the quay puts Amsterdam about twelve minutes away by train, with departures every few minutes. Many passengers pair Zaanse Schans in the morning with the capital in the afternoon.
A two-room cottage where the Tsar of Russia lodged in 1697, having arrived incognito as Pieter Mikhailov to learn the trade of the Zaan shipbuilders. It is now sheltered under a stone casing, worn floorboards and box bed included.
About ten minutes by bus or taxi. The open-air museum village gathers dark green timber houses, barns and windmills re-erected along the river.
Yes, unlike many reconstructions. De Kat grinds pigments for painters, an oil mill presses seed as it did in the seventeenth century, and a sawmill cuts logs on wind power alone.
Zaanse Schans in the morning — windmills, clogs, cheese and the Zaans Museum — then walk back into the centre for the Tsar's cottage and the Gedempte Gracht. Those who prefer a city take the train to Amsterdam.
Because the region is one of the world's major cocoa processing centres. With the right wind, the scent of chocolate drifts across the quays — locals no longer even notice it.
Claude Monet spent four months here in 1871 and left with dozens of canvases. A walk along the Zaan past the old merchants' houses retraces several of his viewpoints, marked by discreet panels.
The euro, and Dutch — but English is spoken everywhere. Cards work even in small shops; cash is rarely needed.
Yes. Zaanse Schans is all outdoors, the clog and cheese demonstrations are short and hands-on, and the Inntel hotel — a tower made of stacked green cottages — gets a laugh from everyone on arrival.