A private 90-minute canal cruise with a real live local skipper and drinks.
A private canal cruise for your group only, with a real local skipper and genuine drinks, on the UNESCO canal ring.
This is a private canal cruise for your group only, with a real local skipper and genuinely included drinks, on the UNESCO-listed canal ring.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Marina meeting point in Amsterdam.
Genuine live commentary.
Genuinely included.
Your group only.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private canal cruise for your group only, with a real local skipper and genuine drinks, on the UNESCO canal ring. This is a private canal cruise for your group only, with a real local skipper and genuinely included drinks, on the UNESCO-listed canal ring.
Amsterdam's canal ring didn't happen by accident — it's a deliberate, planned expansion of the city carried out during the Dutch Golden Age. Construction on the three main canals, Herengracht, Keizersgracht and Prinsengracht, began around 1613 as part of a single, ambitious 17th-century urban plan that wrapped the historic center in concentric arcs of water. It took the better part of five decades and tens of thousands of timber piles driven into Amsterdam's soft soil to complete, and in 2010 UNESCO recognized the Grachtengordel as a World Heritage Site — not for any single building, but for being one of the best-preserved examples anywhere of large-scale Renaissance-era town planning still functioning exactly as designed four centuries later.
Ninety minutes is enough time to pass through all three main canals and see how each ring was laid out for a different tier of Amsterdam's merchant class, with the widest, grandest townhouses facing the Herengracht and progressively narrower plots the further out you go. Your skipper threads a small private boat through routes a larger glass-topped tour boat can't fit down, with real, live commentary on what you're actually looking at rather than a recorded audio track running on a loop.
Because the cruise is private, the stops and pace can flex around what your own group wants to see most — lingering near a particular bridge for photos, or simply asking the skipper more about a building you're curious about.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.