75 Minute Amsterdam City Canal Cruise with Audio Guide

See Amsterdam the way it was meant to be seen: from the water. This 75 minute cruise run by Blue Boat Company - Gray Line Amsterdam glides through the 17th century canal ring, with an audio guide narrating the city as you go.

A Cruise Through a UNESCO World Heritage Canal Ring

Amsterdam's canal ring was designed at the end of the 16th century and built mostly during the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century, a planned expansion that gave the city its now famous half-moon shape. In 2010 the area inside the Singelgracht was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. From the deck of the boat you pass merchant houses, gabled facades, and a stretch of the 165 canals that thread through the city for roughly 75 km. The audio guide fills in the history along the route, and at 75 minutes the cruise is long enough to settle in without eating up your whole day. Current pricing and available departure times are shown on the live booking page. Day-to-day oversight of who can operate on these waters sits with Waternet and the Port of Amsterdam, the city's real canal-traffic authorities. See our separate answer on how long a typical cruise actually runs. See our separate answer on where cruises like this actually board. See our separate answer on how the operators actually compare.

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