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A private day trip to real Giethoorn — the genuine 'Dutch Venice' — with a Wi-Fi Mercedes.
A private tour for your group only, in a real Wi-Fi-equipped Mercedes, to genuine Giethoorn, with a real canal boat trip.
This is a private tour for your group only, in a genuine Wi-Fi-equipped Mercedes. Real Giethoorn — the genuine 'Dutch Venice,' with no roads, only canals — is explored by a real boat trip.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Amsterdam.
Genuine car-free canal village.
Genuinely included.
8-9 hours, just your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, in a real Wi-Fi-equipped Mercedes, to genuine Giethoorn, with a real canal boat trip. This is a private tour for your group only, in a genuine Wi-Fi-equipped Mercedes. Real Giethoorn — the genuine 'Dutch Venice,' with no roads, only canals — is explored by a real boat trip.
Giethoorn's nickname as the "Venice of the Netherlands" is more than marketing — the village really was built without roads. In the 13th century, settlers began digging peat out of the surrounding marshland for fuel, and as they dug, they created the ponds and canals that still shape the village today. The peat diggers also uncovered large numbers of goat horns buried in the bog, and local tradition holds that this is where the name "Giethoorn" comes from (Dutch for "goat horn"). Houses were built on the small islands of solid ground left between the diggings, linked by wooden bridges rather than streets, and to this day a meaningful number of homes still have no road access at all.
Outside the region, almost nobody had heard of Giethoorn until 1958, when Dutch filmmaker Bert Haanstra shot his comedy film "Fanfare" here. The film's success put the quiet farming village on the international map almost overnight, and it has drawn a steady stream of visitors ever since.
This tour's private, Wi-Fi-equipped Mercedes covers the drive each way in comfort, so the journey itself is relaxed rather than a logistics chore — a useful contrast given that, once you arrive, the only way to actually get around the village is by water. The included canal boat trip puts you on the water the same way Giethoorn's own residents always have, gliding past thatched farmhouses that have no driveway at all, only a dock.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
