Trip planner/co-ordinator, Mieke, has been ve...
The Netherlands
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Apr 24 - May 3, 2023
Trip planner/co-ordinator, Mieke, has been very professional and patience in putting the trip plan together over more than 2 years, due to multiple disruptions such as COVID-19 locked down. She is always responsive, obliging and accommodating to our requests and made changes swiftly.
We are also very happy and grateful for having Mr Maarten Ablij as our private diver to Zaanse Schans, Edam and Keukenhof. He is very gentle, polite and punctual in picking us from accommodation in the morning.
In summary, we had an enjoyable and wonderful time in The Netherlands, especially the visits to Anne Frank House, Naturalis, Boerhaave, Windmill de Valk, Madurodam and Keukenhof. We also loved the Dutch food such as bitterballen and stroopwafel.
Thank you Beat the Dutch Travel and Mieke for the good job well done.
Hotel Reviews
Hotel staffs are friendly and checking in/out was easy and fast. Room is of a good size, clean and comfortable.
Disappointed with the check in experience and scare we had. We arrived at 11.30am but was too early as room was not ready. Returned to check in at 7.30pm and being assigned a room on 5th level. However, when we opened the door, we were astonished to see coats hanging on the coats hooks and a big luggage on the luggage rack. Went back to front desk and was told that staff from previous shift had failed to update hotel records when the customer made a room change. Although a new room was cleaned and assigned to us with a complimentary buffet breakfast for the next morning, but we were still very shaken that security and privacy are breached.
Activity Reviews
Very convenient and budget friendly to have museum card if planning to visit many museums.
OV card is handy and can be used on almost all kinds of transportation.
Not worth going to the cheese farm. A very short brief about the history of the farm and various cheeses, then being led to shop. Too commercialise! There is nothing much to do and see at Edam. Zaanse Schans is too crowded within tourists. Walking paths are narrow and hard to pass through when people were standing around to snap pictures of the windmills. Too commercialise and need to pay entrance fee to almost every sights inside the windmills.
The botanical garden is very well organised with many different types of tulips, other floral, trees and water features.
Thank you for your wonderful review, Jasmine, and your feedback. This is very valuable to us.
It was a pleasure hosting you here, and thank you again so much for the lovely gift and note you left me. That is so sweet!
Wishing you and your family all the best in the future,
Mieke