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The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
Step inside the Golden Age with Alette, Hoorn's acclaimed private guide, on a bespoke walking tour of one of the Netherlands' best-preserved VOC trading cities. Tailor-made pacing, hidden courtyards, and insider stories make this utterly bucket-list.
Board a lovingly restored 19th-century steam tram and chug through the Noord-Holland polderscape from Hoorn to the medieval harbour town of Medemblik — one of the most atmospheric rail journeys in the Netherlands.
Hoorn's crown jewel museum occupies the grandest Golden Age civic building in North Holland, housing extraordinary VOC artefacts, fine paintings, and silver that chart the city's astonishing rise as a world-trade superpower.
Clamber aboard a full-scale working replica of Henry Hudson's legendary 1609 VOC vessel, the Halve Maen (Half Moon) — the ship that 'discovered' Manhattan — moored in Hoorn's original harbour where she was first built.
Glide silently through Hoorn's interconnected 17th-century harbour basins on a private electric boat, reading the city's mercantile past from the waterline — the angle from which it was always meant to be seen.
Enter a lovingly obsessive treasure-house of the 20th century — 25 fully reconstructed period interiors from 1900 to 1999, from a pre-war Dutch kitchen to a 1970s living room — one of the Netherlands' most unique and immersive museums.
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