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Free Walking Tours Amsterdam
Free Walking Tours Amsterdam
Free Walking Tours Amsterdam
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City ToursCultural ToursHistorical & Heritage ToursWalking ToursPrivate Tours
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Monday
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Thursday
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Friday
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Saturday
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Sunday
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
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Join our Free Walking Tour Amsterdam and explore the centre of Amsterdam with a local! Skip the tour buses and canals and let us take you into the streets of Amsterdam, to famous city landmarks and along its hidden gems. Discover how a 16th century fishing town became the Dutch capital, Amsterdam's crooked drugs legislation and how the Red Light District was legalized. Our 2-hour tour is tip-based and is given daily, check our website for updated times and book ahead! We are allowed to walk with 15 people per guide, bookings are accepted for up to 5 people.
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Reigate, UK6 contributions
Feb 2020 • Couples
We did the Alternative Walking Tour with our guide Max. Even though it was a really cold and windy day, he made the 2 hour tour feel worth freezing for. He told us many interesting things about the history, the everyday life and common and uncommon things in and about Amsterdam! He was a really nice, funny and entertaining guide and we can highly recommend doing a tour with him through the beautiful city of Amsterdam!
Written February 15, 2020
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Hi Paradise,
"Worth freezing for" is definitely one of the best compliment i've had so far!
Kind Regards,
Max
Written March 1, 2020
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TsunYip
Jakarta, Indonesia1 contribution
Sep 2019 • Solo
Otto, our tour guide, is friendly and knowledgeable about Amsterdam. The tour was started with a short introduction about himself and a Dutch word "gezellig". He went the extra mile by sharing his survival guide to Amsterdam which includes many activities that one can do in Amsterdam as well as bars and museums to spend time at. So much information I gathered about Amsterdam after this tour, ranging from the history to the people nowadays. Most importantly, we can decide for ourselves, how much we want to pay as a token of appreciation for the tour guide's effort. Highly recommended!
Written January 5, 2020
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Thanks a load for your kind words, and taking the time to write about your experience! People like you make my job as a guide worth doing. Appreciate that you had a good time on my tour.
See you next time in Amsterdam!
Warm regards,
Otto- Guide at Free walking tours Amsterdam
Written February 5, 2020
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Giang Nguyen
1 contribution
Jan 2020
I had such a great time with Marius during a classical tour and a food tour as well when he helped me better understand each different aspect in culture, history, lifestyle and cuisine of Amsterdam. In addition to all these useful pieces of information, he lead us through each and every secret corner of city and truly saw with our naked eyes what the actual life within the red light district is. Definitely a highlight in my trip to Amsterdam. Would recommend to every traveler, especially those staying for a short period but still wanting to dive deeper into the city's spirits.
Written January 14, 2020
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Hey Traveling Obsession,
Thank you for acknowledging me being enough of an expert on different city issues to help you develop a better in-depth understanding of stuff at hand here in the fascinating freedom city Amsterdam.
That's by the way one of the more authentic written reviews I've read to date. It might be a cool thing to consider your day spending time in that direction. Like writing.
Thank you for doing this for me. It's totally appreciated.
I wish you all well and wish to meet again someday somewhere soon.
Marius
Written January 23, 2020
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Coryn H
2 contributions
Feb 2020 • Couples
My adult daughter and I did this tour. There were also families with children age 10+ on the tour who seemed to enjoy it too. Met up in Dam Square at 10.30am. Paid an “entertainment tax” of €1.55 per person at the start and paid Noa a tip at the end. Noa spoke English as though it was his native language and he was VERY funny. He told us lots of amusing anecdotes as well as facts about the places we visited and their historical context. Thoroughly enjoyable tour. Lasted just over 2 hours.
Written February 18, 2020
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Ciaoo Coryn!
Thanks for the review and walking with us in the first place!
Hahaha, yeah, making the tour fun for the kids is always a challenge!
Enjoy all future travelss!
Cheerss,
Noa
Written February 20, 2020
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Hedi B
17 contributions
Feb 2020 • Couples
We went for the classic tour on our first day in Amsterdam with Max and it was awesome. We had a great moment with him showing us the city and telling us its story. We decided then to try another tour, the food tour that we did with Marius and we weren’t disappointed. We tried the local Dutch food and learned even more about the city and its food.
Thanks to Max and Marius we had a great time knowing Amsterdam, its story and its food and we recommend these tours to everyone who wants to discover the city.
Thanks to Max and Marius we had a great time knowing Amsterdam, its story and its food and we recommend these tours to everyone who wants to discover the city.
Written February 3, 2020
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He Hedi,
Was nice to have you and your friend on the tour the other day.
Cool man. Thanks a lot for doing this for us man.
On behalf of Max too.
Best wishes
Marius
Written February 5, 2020
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Leonie v
1 contribution
Mar 2020 • Couples
We had the best time with Peter showing us around on the free alternative walking tour. He taught us a lot of interesting and funny facts about Amsterdam history, the drug scene and how the city was built. Also he could easily answer all our questions and made sure that we really learned something special on our tour :) would definitely recommend!!
Written March 4, 2020
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Berke F
1 contribution
Jan 2020 • Solo
My guide was Marius. We had a short tour around Amsterdam, and he stopped us occasionally to give cultural/historical information about buildings/places we see about us. In-depth enough to make the tour worth, and brief enough to keep us interested. I also like his humor :) Cheers!
Written January 19, 2020
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Hey Berkefiliz,
Thanks for the nice things you wrot about me.
It's great to read that back. My tours were longer quite a while ago. But people have other stuff to do so I try to get it in the two hours.
The humour you liked. I just stole it from the internet.
See you around. Untill then all my love.
Marius
Written January 23, 2020
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Stephanie W
Munich, Germany1 contribution
Jan 2020
Wow, what a tour! Thanks Sam for this just as super interesting as entertaining tour.
We had a 2,3 hours walk through the city, passing by the main places of interest, learned historic backgrounds, as well as funny anecdotes. Yes it was freezing cold and rainy, but it's been even more thrilling.
Also the personal recommendations for restaurants, bars, places to see.....
Highly recommend!!! I hope the pedition will be successful and the Free Walking Tours can take place in future!
We had a 2,3 hours walk through the city, passing by the main places of interest, learned historic backgrounds, as well as funny anecdotes. Yes it was freezing cold and rainy, but it's been even more thrilling.
Also the personal recommendations for restaurants, bars, places to see.....
Highly recommend!!! I hope the pedition will be successful and the Free Walking Tours can take place in future!
Written February 4, 2020
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KRoss N
2 contributions
Mar 2020 • Family
My wife and daughter and I had a fantastic tour guide with Everett. The weather was terrible but he made the two hour tour informative, entertaining and educational. Definitely covered the highlights with some great back stories and information we probably wouldn’t have found ourselves. Would definitely recommend him highly!
Written March 5, 2020
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ozzsergio
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia27 contributions
Mar 2020 • Couples
I would like to give a huge thanks to Lennart, who was our guide one day when we had 12 hours in Amsterdam. His manner of telling stories and joking around made the tour really fun and informative at the same time. We especially loved your face expressions about "where do coffee shops get their stuff" and the sound effects for the story about the holy bread 😂🍞👍
Written March 14, 2020
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hola me puedes decir que empresa es la del free tours
Written February 21, 2024
Hello,
My wife and I will arrive in Amsterdam Feb 2, 2020. Do these Free Walking Tours continue regardless of weather conditions?
Thank you for your answers. Looking forward to your wonderful city.
Written January 14, 2020
Yes we do walk! Rain or snow we always go!
Hope to see you soon!
Written January 14, 2020
We always end again at the dam square
See you soon!
Written October 28, 2019
For the classic tour where does the tour end? And if we do both the classic and red light tour will we be learning some of the same information on both tours? Or are they totally different?
Written October 28, 2019
Hi Natalie,
The classic tour has a bit of everything and a lot of history. So there is a little overlap as the Redlight district is also told in the Classic tour.
The Redlight district tour itself goes way deeper into the suppject and shows all sides of this special area.
So it is different, we always end at the dam square again.
See you soon!
Written October 28, 2019
How much are the tips supose to be, usually?
Written October 26, 2019
Hi Raquel,
That is really up to you what you want to give. Most people are between 5 an 10 euro
But again it is up to you!
Hope to see you soon!
Written October 28, 2019
There seem to be several free walking tours in Amsterdam. Are these reviews of just Sandeman's or are all the companies reviewed here together, without always being specific about the company?
Written October 11, 2019
I found it on internet, called Free Walking Tour Amsterdam. Meeting place was Dam Square and the guide had a white umbrella. We took the classic tour.
Written October 17, 2019
Does the food tor start and finish at Dam Square. Many thanks.
Written October 10, 2019
Hello!
The Free Food Tour starts from Dam Square and will end 10 minutes walk from Dam Square in The Poolbar.
Written October 10, 2019
mwong
New York City, New York
how far is the meeting place from Anne Frank museum. I have a ticket for 11:00am and would like to do a classic tour at 14:00
Written September 27, 2019
According to Google Maps, it is an 8 minute walk. I did not personally go to the Ann Frank house during my visit, but based on the map, this should be an easy walk.
Written September 27, 2019
שלום,
לא ידוע לעי על הדרכה בעברית...היינו בהדרכה באנגלית..
Written August 18, 2019
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