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Unless you are only going to be in the country for the day, don’t buy your souvenirs here! Everything they have can be bought cheaper elsewhere.
The only exceptions to this are ‘real delft’ and special decorated wooden shoes. Real delft is expensive no matter where you go, and the wooden shoe shop does offer one of the widest verities of decorated shoes.
Written May 26, 2005
Zaanse Schans is a money-machine. This begins with a parking fee of 7.50 EUR for everything more than 30 minutes and continues with extra entrance fees to the actual sights, the windmills. Apparently, a combi ticket is available, but according to our guidebook this is not exactly cheap at 14.50 EUR. You are even charged 0.50 EUR for the toilets...
Unique Suggestions: We were shocked when we saw the parking lot fees, but as every stay under 30 minutes only costs you 1 EUR, we though, we'd better be quick. So our Zaanse Schans experience (and that of quite a few others) was one of the running kind. We entered the village via the main entrance, jumped out of the way of the stupid photographers taking pictures of you while you step through the entrance (What for?!?) and raced from sight to sight in order to take a photograph of everything that looked remotely interesting. There is quite a lot of that (see my Things to do tip), but having been to Kinderdijk, we considered Zaanse Schans less likeable. Anyway, if you want to see a bit of the village and have come by car, then be quick!
Fun Alternatives: Kinderdijk is a much nicer and at least in early spring much less crowded place. Not only are there more windmills, they are also more picturesque.
Written Mar 30, 2013
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Touristy but convenient to visit from Amsterdam with some good photo opportunities
Unique Suggestions: Go inside a windmill
Written Mar 27, 2011
All tips edited feb 2011 The Zaanse Schans is a kind of open air museum with buildings and windmills. Look for info before you go on http://www.zaanseschans.nl/ As the openingtimes and days are...
It doesn't get any more dutch than this
Roy (Imaniac) convinced Brandon (Europebn) and me to come accompany him to the Zaanse Schans for his 'exploring the Netherlands' quest... I hadn't been here in many many years and i must say.. i......
This is a delightful "Open Air Museum" which is located on the banks of the Zaan River, a mere 9 miles from Amsterdam. It is fully inhabited. Here you can visit Old, Historic working Dutch...
What a place for a VT meeting !!
Working in the area (Zaandam) for 18 years the last thing i want to do on a sunday is visiting the Zaanse Schans. But then there was this VT meeting, and we thought why not? The Zaanse Schans is an...
The 'Zaanse Schans' is a characteristic living and working area on the River Zaan, with wooden houses and windmills dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Build your own Zaanse Schans page
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