Keukenhof day trip from Amsterdam + Canal Cruise
Location
Essentials
- Day trip by bus from Amsterdam to Keukenhof
- Auido guide on the bus will tell you all want to know about the gardens
- One hour long Amsterdam canal cruise
Practical info
Note
When booking your activities, make sure the two do not overlap and that there is time in between to walk from one experience to the next. We recommend that you book your canal cruise either 2 hours before the bus tour or 6.5 hours after the bus tour.
Children
Child ticket for 4-13 year olds
Free entry for 0-3 year olds when accompanied by a paying adult
Check-in
Check-in for the Keukenhof day trip is 30 minutes in advance at the Tours & Tickets shop at Amsterdam Central Station (click here for map)
Check-in for the Canal Cruise is 15 minutes before departure
Languages
The audio guide on the bus is available in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, Catalan, Turkish, Greek, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and Hebrew
The audio guide on the boat is available in Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Turkish, Polish, Thai, Indonesian, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew and Hindi
Ticket information
Ticket directly available on smartphone
Tickets can be rescheduled or cancelled up to 24 hours in advance
More information
The bus tour includes around 40 minutes driving time each way
Keukenhof lasts from 20 March to 11 May 2025
For questions see our Keukenhof FAQ
Flowering in the park depends on weather conditions and is subject to change
For other questions about the product, please contact [email protected]
Accessibility
Getting there
Public Transport
The nearest stop to LOVERS Canal Cruises is Central Station (metro, tram, bus & train). The check-in location for the bus tour is the Tours & Tickets shop at Central Station.
About
The ultimate Dutch spring day
A typical spring day in the Netherlands is filled with flowers and time spend on the water. That makes this exclusive combination ticket the ultimate way for you to experience the Dutch spring. Visit Keukenhof with Tours & Tickets and take a boat ride through the iconic Amsterdam canals with LOVERS Canal Cruises.
A day trip to Keukenhof is a must in spring
When you visit Amsterdam in spring, a visit to the Keukenhof gardens is a not-to-miss experience. Every year from mid-March to mid-May, Keukenhof opens its doors to give everyone the opportunity to surround themselves with millions of flowers. Tours & Tickets has been an official partner of Keukenhof for 30 years.
The 32 hectare park, has over 15 kilometres of footpaths all lined with 800 different species of tulips, crocuses, daffodils, hyacinths and many more. Along with the beautiful park, there are also indoor flower shows, where Dutch growers present their most stunning flowers with changing floral displays every week. So even if the spring day is a bit rainy, you can enjoy the beautiful flowers.
For this day trip, you are transported from Amsterdam Central Station to Keukenhof and back again in a comfortable tour bus. On board the bus, there is an audio guide available in sixteen languages! The audio guide is linked to a GPS tracker so that the information provided matches what you see outside the window.
A cruise through the UNESCO World Heritage canals of Amsterdam
Book your audio-guided day trip to Keukenhof with an Amsterdam canal cruise. The canal cruise will take you through the iconic waterways of Amsterdam, including the Herengracht, Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht. During this one-hour boat ride, you can simply sit back and relax while the best sights of the Dutch capital pass by.
LOVERS Canal Cruises has operated in Amsterdam since the 1950s, making it one of the oldest canal cruise companies in the city. Their boats have individual seats, glass roofs, toilets and a GPS audio guide in 19 different languages. The route of the canal cruises changes, depending on traffic on the canals.
Reviews
41 reviews
Tulips
Absolutely gorgeous. The bus ride was great both picking up and dropping off. Was an absolutely beautiful tulip garden.
So many beautiful tulips 🌷
We were so pleased we did this trip as originally we were planning on just seeing the tulip fields. The gardens are so well maintained and the variety of colours is phenomenal. There are different indoor flower displays, one with orchids. On the way there and back the coach driver takes you past lots of tulip fields and even drives slowly so you can get pictures.
Absolutely Stunning! 🌷🌷🌷
One of the most beautiful flower gardens in the world. The tour guide was insightful and fun! Highly Recommend to anyone! 🌷
Tulip experience
This experience is only available from March to mid-May. The bus ride is 45 min long. The tulip experience is a visit to a generational family run tulip farm with a barn like museum and tulip fields. Then there is a 15 min ride to the Keukenhof gardens for several hours. It was lovely to see and we really enjoyed it. The peak is more in March-April so we did miss the spectacular fields of different colors but still enjoyed it!
A garden worth visiting
One of the most beautiful gardens I have visited- so colourful and such a variety of tulips - well laid out and easy to walk around
What a wonderful day !
Absolutely beautiful .Amazing number of varieties of tulips . Bus trip -good service and ample time to peruse the flowers and grounds.
Guided tour to Keukenhof
Bought a tour guided with them to Keukenhof and found the experience really pleasant. We had to line up to exchange the ticket but it was pretty fast. We left sharply on time, be sure you are there sometime before as they can leave a few minutes before the booked time and pay attention on the guides taking you to the bus they can easily "disappear". Carolina, our guide, was the best one and incredible knowledgeable about explaining everything about the garden's history, she spoke English, Spanish and French fluently and we are still intrigued where she is from, anyways, the tour was well organised and worth it, the bus left the gardens exactly the agreed time and Carolina , again, even made funny jokes and told a little bit more history.
Absolute must experience!
After years of wanting to visit this magnificent place, it far exceeded my expectations! I will cherish the experience forever. The colors jump out at you. It's like seeing the beauty for the first time!
Definitely worth the time and money.
The bus was comfortable and clean. The tour guide was informative. Although, at times she was a bit hard to understand. Keukenhof was worth the stop. It’s simply beautiful. The pictures do not capture the grandeur of the grounds. The visit to the Windmills was more fascinating and fun than we imagined. The history, significance and quaintness of the site do not disappoint.
Hermosos jardines, variedad de flores que no conocíamos
Los jardines son hermosos, nos hubiera gustado un poco más de puntualidad del bus de regreso porque tuvimos que esperar en el estacionamiento en un clima muy ventoso y frío, sin lugar techado, sin asientos y con niños en cochecito. Al parecer la demora en los buses de regreso se debió a que el día siguiente era el Día del Rey y es una festividad muy importante para los locales.
Keukenhof 2023
Bonne organisation Conductrice très douce et consignes claires. Attention cependant à l heure de retour !
Inolvidable e imprescindible si viajas a Amsterdam
Impresionante. No dudes en coger este tour, no esperarás colas y el guía Ryan hizo el viaje super ameno! El jardín consta con 3.000 tipos de tulipanes distintos de todos los colores y preciosos. Recomiendo mucho ir a principios de mayo!
Visite incontournable
C'est la visite a faire si on est à Amsterdam en entre mi mars et mi mai. Le départ s'effectue depuis la gare centrale, dans le hall du fond qui permet d'accéder au départ des bateaux. Il y a une bureau de vente où les groupes de réunissent pour les nombreux départs. Trajet 45/50 mn de la gare centrale au parc. Temps libre sur place de 3h30, ce qui est très bien. Beaucoup de monde sur lace mais le parc est immense. Bien suivre les instructions pour le bus du retour sinon... Raté !
Excursion à ne pas manquer !
Un peu de difficulté à trouver l'emplacement des guichets Tours & Tickets dans la gare d'Amsterdam, donc prenez large pour vous y rendre. Il faudrait y être en tout cas 20 minutes avant le départ de votre excusion. De plus, ils sont précis dans le timing et ne vont pas vous attendre.... Chauffeur sympathique sans excès de blabla, qui nous a amené très proche de l'entrée de Keukenhof, appréciable. Jardins de toute splendeur, un régal pour les yeux et le nez, avec le parfum enivrant des jacinthes. Une très belle journée !
Tulipanes
Sitio maravilloso lleno de tulipanes de todos los colores. Impresionan los campos de tulipanes de colores. Recomiendo.
Amsterdam City River Cruise
The canal cruise was perfect, the captin come guide gave us headphones to listen in our own language. The riverboat was clean and tidy, easy to walk on and off, it was a nice day and we got some beautiful pictures!! A great end to a fantastic tourist holiday!!
Early evening cruise
We did the early evening cruise to see the lights of the city. Easy to get tickets by turning up and allocated the next cruise. There is an audio link that you can use, but we decided to just sit outside and watch the views. An hour cruise which was interesting and pretty.
Great information finding cruise
We had an hour cruise around the canals in Amsterdam and learnt a lot whilst doing it. We really enjoyed every second. My five year old didn’t want to get off. The captain was also very knowledgeable.
A Must Try
This is a must do on your list of things to do while visiting Amsterdam. It takes you through areas that you may not be able to walk to. The captain points out things of interest and tells the story behind it.
A fab way to see Amsterdam
We had a really lovely time on the one-hour canal cruise. Our captain was very lovely and cracked a good few jokes throughout the tour. The GPS guided tour via the headphones was a fab idea and there were so many language options available which was a really pleasant surprise. We learned so much about the history of the city and the tour even helped us to find places to visit again in further detail after the tour. The price was extremely reasonable considering the excellent experience we got, and our boat even left a little early which was nice. All in all, we would definitely recommend it!
The captian made the experience
We really enjoyed it. We show I I amsterdam cards at the ticket office ans were on a boat and on our way within 10 minutes. Our captain (Tony I believe was his name) was lovely ,cheerful and very knowledge of the area, he also had 2 traniees with him and they were also lovely. The facilties were clean. If I hadn't have had the I amsterdam card I would have still paid what the price was (which I think is reasonable).
Well worth the experience
1st time in Amsterdam and loved it Booked on the Lovers Canal cruise early in the morning to get a feel for the city and to get our bearings The tour showed the highlights of the city and the comentry was good
Cruising backward :(
sitting backward is really annoying... Except that I think it is very nice and the captain was a nice guy, he was really funny, making jokes.
Go with Lovers
Booked through Get Your Guide literally 20 mins before boarding. They let us join a boat that was boarding as soon as we got there, which was great, no standing around as they weren’t so busy. We took a daytime trip and glad we did. Maybe evening cruises would be better in warmer months with open boats. The boat was modern, clean and warm and no condensation at all during any part of our cruise. The headphones were included and the audio commentary was interesting. The captain also added bits and pieces of extra info which was appreciated. It was a great introduction to the canals of Amsterdam as we decided to do this trip literally an hour after arriving in Amsterdam. It helped us with our bearings and with general historical info about the city. The reason for 4 rather than 5 stars is that we seemed to stay on one canal, no museums seen, no Anne Frank house, nothing like that, which was a shame as lots of tourists probably visit these places afterwards. Maybe the canal boat starting from the museums area take that route? We took the one from the station. There are lots of canal boat companies, but we were more than happy with Lovers as their boats appear a lot more modern than many others we saw. I would definitely recommend the cruise and my teenage daughter said it was one of the nicest things we did when in Amsterdam.
Great couples tour
A amazing tour with some great canal boat skills performed and a great host. This tour is very much for couples and being alone I felt a little out of place.
A Great Way To See The City
Done the open boat tour during the summer. A great way to see the city and the audio guide gave plenty of information along the way. Extremely relaxing to the point I almost fell asleep half way around. Would definitely do the tour again if I’m back in Amsterdam
Quick visit to see Amsterdam
Guide was very friendly and knowledgeable. Although it rained, I still enjoyed the tour. The only complaint was the audio was difficult to hear at times.
Relaxing hour on the canals
Nice relaxing hour around the canals. Duco (sorry if I have not got the name correct) was informative with history and fun facts. Would recommend.
Good cruise
It was educational, slowed down at the right places. The pilot was polite and explained well- was fun and energetic.
Es un tour más general
El tour está muy bien, en cambio si ya has hecho un freetour por la ciudad recomiendo el crucero primero, te da una vista más general, mi amiga y yo al haber hecho antes el freetour volvimos a ver sitios en los que ya habíamos estado.
Très belle découverte en péniche
Croisière avec le groupe lovers Sympathique croisière traduit en plusieurs langue 1h pour vous faire un tour des canaux avec visite guidée et indication sur les différents quartiers/monuments / place/ marché /histoire / musée de la ville etc Très bien pour découvrir une 1er fois en famille en amies en couple cette croisière et très bien adapter
Très bien
Petite balade bien sympathique, est l’audio était très bien fait rien à redire. Le petit bar pour attendre est très sympa aussi avant d’accéder au bateau.
Informativ und schön
Wir hatten einen super symphatischen Bootsführer der viele Nebeninfos gab. War schön und informativ. 1 Stunde hat gut gereicht und empfehlenswert. Gute Karte erhalten für den Treffpunkt und pünktlich, sowie sauber.
Un paseo agradable en barco
Muy puntuales, un paseo tranquilo, recomiendo que cuando lo cojan miren bien la metereología, pues así podrán disfrutar mejor de las vistas.
DA PROVARE
Giro dei canali in barca assolutamente da consigliare. Audioguida in italiano e Simon simpaticissimo conducente che comunque dava ulteriori informazioni in inglese. La durata è di un'ora ma ci è dispiaciuto scendere!!
Tolle Tour
Die Stunde waren zwar nur ca. 50 Minuten, aber die Tour war wunderschön. Unbedingt abends machen, die Atmosphäre ist unbeschreiblich!
👍👍👍
Sehr nette Bootstour über die Kanäle von Amsterdam! Man bekommt viele interessante Informationen über die Stadt und deren Geschichte erzählt.
intéressant
La promenade sur les canaux dure une heure. Les audio guides permettent de suivre les commentaires dans différentes langues. Le long de cette promenade fluviale, nous découvrons l'histoire de la ville et des monuments "célèbres". Par contre, le confort est rudimentaire.
Para escalas cortas de vuelo
Las vistas son preciosas, aunque desde posición incómoda porque el barco estaba muy lleno. El capitán muy simpático e hizo agradable el viaje.
Crociera easy
Crociera molto carina con guida in tutte le lingue. Partenza vicino ala stazione centrale. Durata circa un ora. Visita dei canali principali di Amsterdam. Da provare
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