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Between April and mid-May we offer special tulip tours. The program of this Super Tulip Tour is totally dedicated to this beautiful flower. You will cycle through hectares of spring flowers and tulips, learn all about growing tulips in a tulip park and of course you visit the Keukenhof.
Highlights include:
Cycling through the tulip fields
Tulip garden & Keukenhof
Flower auction at Aalsmeer
The first part of the week the route takes you through the Dutch 'Waterland' region, a region with a characteristic and age-old Dutch landscape. On Monday you will visit a tulip garden (near Alkmaar) where you can learn all there is to know about tulips and tulip growing. The tulip originated in Turkey. The tulip bulb reached The Netherlands at the end of the 16th century. In 1634 there was one single bulb that was so expensive, a whole canalside house in Amsterdam costed the equivalent.
The Zaanse Schans, which you will visit on Tuesday, is a unique hamlet where people live and work with original houses and windmills from the river Zaan area (17th century). Of course you also will visit the world-famous, 32-hectares park The Keukenhof, where you can admire the wonderfully colorful fields with flowering bulbs in peace and quiet. Curious? Take a peek here.
On the last day you pay a visit to the flower auction at Aalsmeer. Today Aalsmeer controls a market share of 44% for the turnover of bulbs and tulip flowers. Finally you will return to Amsterdam where this tour ends.
| The route from day to day + km | | sat | | Amsterdam, embarkation at 2 PM near Central Station, biking to Purmerend, 20 | | sun | | Purmerend - Alkmaar - Schagen, 45/25 | | mon | | Schagen - tulip garden - Alkmaar, 70/50 | | tue | | Alkmaar - Zaanse Schans - Haarlem, 50 | | wed | | Haarlem - Keukenhof - Leiden, 45 | | thu | | Leiden - Kudelstaart, 45 | | fri | | Kudelstaart - flower auction Aalsmeer - Amsterdam, 50 | | sat | | Amsterdam, debarkation before 10 AM near Central Station |
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+ show travel dates red = fully booked
blue = on request/ limited availability
green = available
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| 7 / 4 / 2012 | | Zwaan |
14 / 4 / 2012 | | Zwaan |
28 / 4 / 2012 | | Zwaan |
+ tour prices Prices per person in 2012
Ship name Zwaan (ComfortPlus):
2-berth cabin: 875,-
3-berth cabin: 840,-
single use: 1060,-
Reduction children:
0-2*: free of charge
3-11*: 30%
*if child is travelling together with at least 1 one full-paying person
Please note that the tour prices are based on the current fuel price.
Should the fuel price increase more than 5%, then we need to ask a supplement. Even for reservations already been made.
+ included All nights on board (incl. bed clothes, 2 towels)
Breakfast and dinner on board
Lunch packages when on the road
Coffee and tea on board
Tour guide
Route information
Road book
Ferry fares on the route
Not included
Reservation costs 20,- per party
Bicycle rent
Bicycle insurance (optional) 15,- per bicycle
Bicycle insurance E-bike (optional)
40,- per bicycle
Entrance fees to museums; approx.
15 per tour
Travel risk insurance / cancellation insurance (optional) + bicycle rent Bicycle rent per week:
Hybrid, 24-gears Gazelle Medeo: 60,-
E-bike, 21 gears: 120,-
Children's bicycle rent:
Child's bike, 21 gears: 45,-
Bike seat: 15,-
Trailer bike, 3 gears: 45,-
Bike trailer: 85,-
+ extra items + special details Please take good notice of booking conditions.
Cycletours Holidays reserves the right to cancel tours with fewer than 12 participants up to 21 days prior to the date of departure
The program is subject to change without notice. + day-to-day program - 2011 - + show travel dates red = fully booked
blue = on request/ limited availability
green = available
+ tour prices Prices per person in 2011
Category Comfort Plus:
2-berth cabin: 895,-
3-berth cabin: 860,-
single use: 1080,-
Reduction children:
0-2*: free of charge
3-11*: 30%
*if child is accompanied by least 1 one full-paying person
+ included All nights on board (incl. bed clothes, 2 towels)
- Breakfast and dinner
- Lunch packages when on the road
- Coffee and tea on board
- Rental bike: 24-speed Gazelle Medeo, incl. pannier bags, lock, water bottle
- Tour guide
- Route information
- Ferry fares on the route
Not included
- Reservation costs 20,- per party
- Bicycle insurance (optional) 15,- per bicycle
- Entrance fees to museums; approx. 15 per tour
- Travel risk insurance / cancellation insurance (optional)
+ special details Cycletours Holidays reserves the right to cancel tours with fewer than 12 participants up to 21 days prior to the date of departure.
The program is subject to change without notice
  
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