Amsterdam Tailor made Tours

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Elisabeth's Tailor Made Tours welcomes you and has the pleasure to offer you her special tailor made tours in Amsterdam and the Netherlands. The Tailor made tours allow you to make your own tours. Apart from the tailor made tours, there are also pre-packed deals:

Amsterdam highlights tour

• Dam Square with Royal Palace and War Monument
• Main Canals
• Historical Merchant Homes
• Flower market and alm houses likeHet Begijnenhof.
• Amstel River with Jewish neighbourhood and flea market.

and / or

Visit of one of the famous local museums!

• Rijksmuseum: works of Rembrandt, Vermeer, Ruysdael, and contemporaries- the masters of the seventeenth century
• Van Gogh Museum: paintings of Van Gogh and other impressionists.
• Amsterdam's Historical museum: history of Amsterdam, objects, glass, pottery, archaeology discoveries.
• Jewish Historical museum: Jewish History, religion, culture in the Netherlands.
• Anne Frank House: the house were she was hidden during the second war and were she wrote her diary.

also Local Traditional Industries:

• Diamond Factories: here you can see how we cut diamonds
• Cheese and Wooden Shoe "Farms"
• Breweries: experience how we make our beer
• Liqueur or Gin–distillery and tasting rooms
• Cigar makers

History and culture tours

East India Company, Seventeenth Century Amsterdam and Jewish Amsterdam, the Jordaan (artistic and picturesque neighbourhood)

and / or a Museum visit of your choice:

• Rijksmuseum
• Van Loon museum: seventeenth rich merchant house with art collection
• Our Lord in the Attic: seventeenth house with catholic house church in the attic
• Historical Museum
• Jewish Museum

Art and architecture tours

Old and New Architecture: Old city centre, the Amsterdamse School: Plan Zuid, Docklands, Spaarndammerbuurt, IJburg, Amsterdam Noord.

• Museum of your choice
• Beurs van Berlage: building in the style of The Amsterdamse School Architecture
• Het Schip: former post office in the style of the Amsterdamse School Architecture, now a museum.
• Art Galleries
• Art workshops: stained glass, paintings
• Sculptures; outside and inside
• Bridges

Walking, bike or boat with guide is recommended in this tour.

Fun tours

• Red light district and China town.
• Visit of Erotic museum or/and Hash museum
• Coffeeshops, Growing shops, Special Pubs, Brown Cafes.

Green tours

Parks: Vondelpark, Amsterdamse Bos in Amsterdam.

Woods: “De Hoge Veluwe”, in the centre of the country.
And the famous museum Kröller Muller.

Beaches and Dunes: Blijburg Beach in Amsterdam, Kennemerduinen Dunes near Haarlem, North Sea Beaches.

and/or

Traditional landscapes (“Polders”-dry lakes) and fishing villages, windmills, river landscape and reclaimed land.

Tranquil villages such as Hoorn, Enkhuizen, Marken, Volendam, De Rijp, Durgerdam etc. can be included in the tour. We will at least visit two of these villages.

We also organize tours to destinations outside Amsterdam:

Major Cities:

• The Hague : Royal and elegant city of the Netherlands where the government and Palace of Justice are situated.
• Rotterdam : First harbour of the world with daring modern architecture.
• Delft : Johannes Vermeer place of birth , the famous Delft’s blue pottery , rich merchant houses along pretty canals. The Technological University.
• Alkmaar : Traditional cheese market beautiful city in the north situated near North Sea and beautiful countryside with mills, polders, dunes and dikes.
• Haarlem : one of the oldest towns of the Netherlands, place of birth of Frans Hals : contempory of Rembrandt., situated near the dunes of the North Sea.
• Dordrecht: Oldest town situated on three rivers and former harbour of the Netherlands.
• Maasstricht: Beautiful old city along the river Maas, in the south of the country and surrounded by hills next to Germany and Belgium.
• Utrecht : Situated in the middle of the country and old spiritual city with famous cathedral “THE DOM”., and house of the Dutch pope, lovely canals and old and new architecture.
• Gouda : Quiet town with the famous St John Church ( with the most beautiful collection of stained glass windows which depict the political and religious history of the Netherlands) and one of the oldest gothic town halls in the Netherlands with cheese weigh house.
• Leiden : Old city with canals famous for the oldest defence stronghold and the oldest University and Botanical Gardens. Leiden is also situated near the Tulip gardens The Keukenhof.

Many attractions available: museums, traditional craft and industry in these towns. We can also organise lunch or dinners on demand. The Hague and Rotterdam can be done by bus (highlight tour). All other towns are bike/walk only. Buses only travel to small towns, and not in them.

Approximate costs:
Guided services: 15 euro per person for half a day (minimum of 10 persons) or 140.00 euro for half a day when group is smaller.
25 euro per person for whole day or 230.00 euro when group is smaller then 10 persons.
Bus: between 200.00 and 250.00 for half a day and between 400.00 and 500,00 euro for the whole day
Bike rent: 7 euro a day
Boat excursion: 6 euro per person
Sailing boat: between 230.00 and 270.00 for half a day and between 480-550.00 for the whole day.
Museum entrance: between 8 and 12,50 euro per person.

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