City Canal Cruise

A visit to Amsterdam should always start with a city canal cruise. The luxurious canal boats from Blue Boat Company are ready to guide you through Amsterdam’s many canals, along all the highlights of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam canals have been awarded UNESCO’s World Heritage status and taking part in this 75-minute City Canal Cruise will reveal why. During the city canal cruise you will be passing all of the city’s highlights, from the famous 17th century canal houses in the historical city center to the the modern, urban areas at the IJ. Spot the Montelbaanstoren, the Skinny Bridge and way more! Board the boat and experience Amsterdam like never before during our Amsterdam tour.

See Amsterdam in all its glory during the City Canal Cruise

At Amsterdam Canal Cruises, we’ve been showing people from all over the world the beauty of the Amsterdam canals for years. You can’t visit Amsterdam without seeing 17th century buildings lining the canals and gorgeous bridges glide by during one of our canal cruises! You’ll see beautiful historic buildings, such as the Montelbaanstoren and the Skinny Bridge. You’ll also see the 21st century city that Amsterdam has become – there are some truly impressive new buildings along the river IJ, for example.

At Amsterdam Canal Cruises, we offer city canal cruises with audio in 20 languages and we even offer a kids cruise so you can enjoy your city canal cruise with the whole family. While you listen to our interesting facts about Amsterdam, kids enjoy a pirate story and answer questions in a booklet with games that go with the audio story.

Optional: add a snackbox to your booking and enjoy some snacks and drinks during your canal cruise! The snackbox includes chips, popcorn, stroopwafels, salted peanuts and a drink of your choice (soft drink, beer or wine).

Practical information about our Amsterdam City Canal Cruise

Are you interested in booking a ticket for one of our boat tours in Amsterdam? Then read along for all the practical information!

Audio guide
Blue Boat Company offers audio commentary in 20 languages on every daytime departure (English, French, Russian, Spanish, German, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, Turkish, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Indonesian, Cantonese, Korean, Hindi).

Departure location
We offer two different departure locations. You can choose your preferred location when booking your city canal cruise.

• Location Hard Rock Cafe: our dock is located at Stadhouderskade 501 (opposite Hard Rock Cafe)
• Location Heineken Experience: our dock is located at Stadhouderskade 550 (opposite Heineken Experience)

Wheelchair accessibility
If there’s a wheelchair user among your company, it is necessary to make an online reservation beforehand. Select one of the following time slots to ensure that you’ll be on a boat that is wheelchair accessible: 10:30 AM, 12 PM, 2 PM, 3:30 PM and 5 PM. Then contact our reservations department to inform us that there is a wheelchair in the group as we can only have 3 wheelchairs on board at the same time. Our reservations department can be reached via 020-6791370. You can also send us an email on workdays at tickets@amsterdamcanalcruises.nl.

Please note: our wheelchair accessible boats only depart from our dock opposite Hard Rock Cafe (Stadhouderskade 501). We have priority boarding for wheelchair users, so we kindly request you to be present at least 15 minutes in advance.

More must-do’s at Amsterdam Canal Cruises

As our name suggests, Amsterdam Canal Cruises sells cruises in the canal ring, but we offer so much more on our website! From bike tours to day trips to the Zaanse Schans and museum tickets for e.g. the Van Gogh Museum, check out our website now!