Netherland Tours Adventure for Women
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| TRIP DATES: April 18 – 24, 2027 |
| LOCATION: Netherlands, Europe |
| PRICE: $5,391 – Everyone gets their own room! |
| OPTIONAL BRUGES ADD-ON: $1,328 – 2 extra nights in Belgium, April 24 – 26 |
Tulip Season in the Netherlands: trip facts
A 7-day, 6-night women-only small-group trip in the Netherlands, with Keukenhof gardens, biking through tulip fields and punting through Giethoorn. From $5,391 per person.
| Group size | Small group, max 10 women |
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| Length | 7 days / 6 nights |
| Price | $5,391 per person, private room included. Deposit $1,000. |
| Activity level | 2 of 5: easy biking through tulip fields, punting through Giethoorn and a forest hike |
| Upcoming dates | Apr 18–24, 2027 |
| Optional add-on | 2 nights in Bruges, Belgium (Apr 24–26, 2027): guided walking tour, chocolate making workshop and 2 group dinners. $1,328 per person, own room included. |
| Starts / ends | Starts in Amsterdam with airport transfers timed to your arrival; welcome meet-up at 7pm. |
| Included | English-speaking Trip Leader and Canyon Calling representative, all transportation, private lodging, all meals from day 1 dinner to day 7 breakfast, activities and gear, guide gratuities, entrance fees |
| Traveling solo? | Every guest gets her own room. |
Vacation Packages to The Netherlands for Women Traveling Together
The Netherlands is known for a flat landscape of canals, tulip fields, windmills and cycling routes. Amsterdam, the capital, is home to world renowned museums and the house where Jewish diarist Anne Frank hid during WWII. Canalside homes and a trove of works from artists including Rembrandt and Vermeer remain from the city’s 17th-century “Golden Age.” Join us on this new tour to explore the famous and beautiful Keukenhof Flower Gardens. We’ll bike, hike, go punting, and more as we wander through this welcoming country. Want more? Add on two nights in Bruges, Belgium, where we tour the medieval town and make Belgian chocolate (and eat it too)! We’ll visit the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Wadden Sea with its mudflats and seals, hike in the National Park Hoge Veluwe, enjoying its Van Gogh collection in the Kröller Müller museum, and experience it all. We’ll make cheese and have a food tasting tour in Amsterdam. Oh, my so many places to explore and things to do on this wonderful itinerary. And, Keukenhof has an approximate season of only six weeks every year. This bucket list trip is waiting for you! Join us on this new tour to the Netherlands.
Netherland Trip Activities at a Glance
Tulip Season in the Netherlands
Day 1
On this arrival day we have arranged for several airport transfers to the hotel based on your arrival time. If you choose to arrive pre-trip, then we’ll collect you from your hotel. You may have time to explore Amsterdam at leisure and grab a snack. This evening (7pm) we’ll have a welcome meet and greet with our local Trip Leader and get to know our road sisters for the week. Our welcome dinner is delicious. Overnight Amsterdam.
Day 2
After breakfast, we’ll hop in our private van and drive 45 minutes to our first stop: Keukenhof Holland! Here we spend the morning hours exploring the many tulip varieties and displays. The history of Keukenhof dates back to the 15th century. Keukenhof Castle was built in 1641 and the estate grew to encompass an area of over 200 hectares. In 1949 a group of 20 leading flower bulb growers and exporters came up with the plan to use the estate to exhibit spring-flowering bulbs, signaling the birth of Keukenhof as a spring park. The morning visit is best with less crowding and great photographs. Late morning, we collect our bicycles and set off on a long, leisurely ride along a flower route; the area will be full of colorful tulip fields. We bike through villages and in the dunes and along the beach! We will have lunch at the Tulip Experience Amsterdam, which has a lovely exhibition on the history of tulip farming, and a huge tulip field where you can take photos wandering through the rows of flowers. A true bucket list experience, and one you will not soon forget. Early evening we drive back to Amsterdam and enjoy dinner. Overnight Amsterdam.
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Day 3
After an early breakfast, we’re off to the ferry to spend the day at Texel Island! We’ll hike in the nature reserve and on the beach, see the lighthouse, historical sites and small villages. At low tide we walk on the bottom of the sea. The Wadden Sea is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where the huge tidal mudflats are a true buffet for millions of migrating birds. We’ll also take a boat out on the Wadden Sea to go seal watching. These lovely creatures rest on the sandbanks so we can observe them up close…but not too close. We’ll have binoculars for you to use. A picnic lunch by the sea seems like perfection. We’ll have some free time to roam the village and mingle with the locals, then enjoy dinner together and tell tales of the day before taking the ferry back to the mainland. Overnight Amsterdam.
Day 4
After breakfast, we check out of our Amsterdam hotel and start a full day of exploration in the city with a guided walking tour focused on the Jewish quarter. The guide will speak to the history around World War II, including the names monument, the shadow wall, the Portuguese synagogue, the “dokwerker”, the theater and the stumble blocks. In this two hour guided tour we’ll hear about how the Nazis implemented their anti-Jewish regulations, the role of the resistance and the life of the Netherlands’ Jewish population in this period. “If we don’t learn from history, we are bound to repeat it.” We will then walk to the Albert Cuyp market where lunch will take the form of a delightful Food Tasting Tour! Dutch herring, smoked eel or fried cod, hot French fries with mayo, poffertjes (Dutch mini pancakes) and the famous stroopwafels (yum!) along with Dutch cheeses and dishes influenced by the former colonies of Suriname and Indonesia. Late afternoon, we will visit the Anne Frank museum, seeing the artifacts and the hiding place where the family lived before they were discovered. Afterward we hop in our private van and drive about an hour to the Veluwe forest, where we check into our cabins for the next two nights and enjoy dinner. Overnight Veluwe.
Day 5
After breakfast, we drive a short way to De Hoge Veluwe National Park, in the east of the Netherlands. In the park we’ll hike (about 4 miles) or bike through beautiful landscapes, hoping to see some Dutch wildlife, best known for their ‘big four’: red deer, wild boars, mouflons, and roe deer. But the park is home to many more mammals such as foxes, badgers and pine martens. Keep your cameras/phones ready! After lunch we’ll visit the Kröller-Müller Museum, which has the second largest Van Gogh collection in the world, consisting of 90 paintings and 180 drawings. Late afternoon, we return to our cabins to relax and clean up before dinner. Overnight Veluwe.
Day 6
After breakfast, we check out and drive to the “Venice of the North,” Giethoorn. Giethoorn is a mostly car-free village in the northeastern Dutch province of Overijssel, known for its boat-filled waterways, footpaths, bicycle trails and centuries-old thatched-roof houses. It borders a section of the Weerribben-Wieden National Park, a marshy area once popular for peat and reed harvesting. As this is best viewed from the water, we’ll go punting, a traditional (and very fun!) way to travel the canals: you stand at the back of a flat-bottomed boat and push a long pole against the bottom of the canal to glide forward. We’ll explore both the village and the National Park this way for a couple of hours. Then we’ll have lunch in a restaurant in Giethoorn. Save some room, because after lunch we will head to a local farm to participate in a cheese making workshop. The farmer will guide us through the process of cheesemaking in the Netherlands, and we’ll taste different kinds of the famous Dutch cheeses. Late afternoon we drive to our hotel near Schiphol Airport and celebrate our week together at our farewell dinner. Overnight near Schiphol Airport.
Day 7
Our hotel is just minutes from Schiphol Airport, so those flying home today have an easy trip to the terminal after breakfast. Or stay and play in beautiful Amsterdam or points beyond, or join our optional Bruges add-on below!
Optional Bruges Add-On: April 24 – 26, 2027
Not ready to go home? Extend your adventure with two nights in beautiful Bruges, Belgium, with your Canyon Calling guide. $1,328 per person, with your own room.
Day 7 (add-on): After breakfast, we catch the train to Bruges (about 3 hours). We check into our hotel in the historic center and head out to explore the canals, cobbled streets and medieval buildings of the capital of West Flanders. Dinner together tonight. Overnight Bruges.
Day 8 (add-on): We start the day with a guided walking tour of this beautiful medieval town. Markt square features a 13th-century belfry with a 47-bell carillon and an 83m tower with panoramic views. Bruges is famous for beer, Belgian fries and chocolate, and even has its own official city chocolate: the Bruges swan, or Brugsch Swaentje. So naturally, after lunch, it is time to dive into the art of Belgian chocolate making! We will see how these beautiful sweets are made, and of course taste them. Farewell dinner tonight. Overnight Bruges.
Day 9 (add-on): After breakfast, we take the train back to Amsterdam Schiphol airport (AMS) for flights home.
The add-on includes: train tickets from Amsterdam to Bruges and from Bruges to Amsterdam Schiphol airport, 2 nights in your own room in central Bruges, a guided walking tour, a Belgian chocolate making workshop, 2 group dinners and your Canyon Calling guide. Breakfasts, lunches and alcoholic beverages are on your own. To add Bruges to your trip, click Book This Trip and choose Optional Bruges Add-On in the Payment menu, or email trips@canyoncalling.com.
What’s Included:
- 7 days/6 nights fully guided tour with an English-speaking Trip Leader and a US Canyon Calling Representative
- All transportation as outlined in this itinerary
- All lodging in SINGLE occupancy
- All meals from dinner on Day 1 through breakfast on Day 7
- All activities, excursions, and activity gear as outlined in this itinerary
- All activity guide gratuities
- All entrance fees and permits
What’s Not Included:
- Transportation to and from Amsterdam, Netherlands (Schiphol airport code AMS)
- Alcoholic beverages and items of a personal nature
- Gratuity to your Trip Leader at the end of the tour
