Discover Amsterdam on one of our small group tours, led by friendly local guides. Perfect for solo travellers, couples, or friends who enjoy exploring with like-minded people.
Group sizes are kept small to ensure a personal and relaxed experience – you get real interaction with your guide and the city, not a seat on a coach.
Our small group tours in Amsterdam include craft beer tastings with local breweries, cheese shop walks with wine or beer pairings, an Anne Frank walking tour, plus ghost tours through the old city and group bike tours with Mike’s Bike Tours. Every tour can also be booked privately for your own group.
Our small group tours are for travellers who want a proper guided experience without booking a whole tour just for themselves. You join a handful of like-minded guests, which some people call a public or shared tour, and spend your time with one of our own local guides rather than following an umbrella through a crowd. We keep the groups small on purpose, so there is room to ask questions, chat between stops and actually hear the stories.
The guides who lead our private tours also run these departures, and they bring the same approach: people first, stories rather than lists of dates, and a relaxed pace that leaves time to look around. Every tour has a clear theme and a set start time, which makes it easy to plan your day around, and several of them run every day. Solo travellers, couples and friends travelling together all fit in naturally, and by the end of the tour the group usually feels a lot less like strangers.
Follow the final stretch of the route the Frank family walked to their hiding place, past the Westerkerk and along the Prinsengracht, with passages from Anne’s diary read in the places she knew. The tour ends with a Virtual Reality visit of the Secret Annex, furnished as it was between 1942 and 1944. It is a meaningful choice when Anne Frank House tickets are sold out, and it can often be booked at short notice.
As darkness falls over Dam Square, a lantern-carrying guide leads you into the oldest streets of the city. Expect ghost stories, historic crimes and local legends, each one rooted in the very place you are standing. It is atmospheric rather than frightening, and a wonderful way to see the old centre after dark.
Cheese expert Michael takes you to some of Amsterdam’s finest cheese shops, where you smell, taste and choose the cheeses for your own cheeseboard. The walk ends with a tasting where your selection is paired with beer or Dutch wine, so you leave knowing exactly what you like and where to buy it.
Step behind the red shutters of an old canal house for a masterclass with an artisan cheese expert. You taste five cheeses that go well beyond Gouda, from washed-rind to blue, each paired with a drink. Perfect if you would rather sit down and taste than walk.
Four award-winning craft beers and a local spirit, poured in some of Amsterdam’s oldest bars, with Dutch snacks and plenty of city stories along the way. If you want to understand what the Dutch mean by gezelligheid, this is where to start.
Cycle Amsterdam the way the locals do with our trusted partner Mike’s Bike Tours. Choose the easy-paced City Highlights tour along the canals and bridges, the Urban Adventure ride to the creative NDSM district with street art, magnet fishing and your own piece of graffiti, or a longer ride out to the windmills of Zaanse Schans. Regular and electric bikes are both available.
Small group tours suit solo travellers, couples and anyone who enjoys meeting other guests, and they are the most affordable way to explore Amsterdam with one of our guides. A private tour gives you your own guide, your own start time and a route shaped entirely around you. Every tour on this page can also be booked privately, so have a look at our private tours in Amsterdam or simply ask us which option suits you best.
Our small group tours in Amsterdam include Anne Frank’s Last Walk with a Virtual Reality visit of the Secret Annex, Amsterdam’s Ghostly Experiences, a cheese walking tour with wine or beer, a cheese tasting in a canal house, the Brews and T’Ales craft beer tour and a choice of group bike tours with Mike’s Bike Tours.
Yes. A small group tour is a tour with a set start time that individual travellers can join, which is what some people call a public or shared tour. The difference with us is that the groups stay small and are led by our own local guides.
We keep our groups small so everyone can hear the guide and join the conversation. Group sizes differ per tour and are shown on each tour page. Anne Frank’s Last Walk, for example, takes up to around 15 guests.
Yes. Every tour on this page can also be booked as a private tour for your own group, at a time that suits you. Have a look at our private tours in Amsterdam or contact us and we will arrange it.
Absolutely. Many of our guests join on their own, and a small group is an easy and sociable way to explore Amsterdam with a local guide while meeting other travellers.
Families are welcome on many of our small group tours. Tours where alcohol is served are for guests aged 18 and over, and for Anne Frank’s Last Walk we recommend a minimum age of 10 because of the subject. Each tour page shows its own age guidance.
Our small group tours run in English. If you would like a tour in another language, a private tour is the best option, and we will match you with a guide who speaks it.
Our tours run in all weather, so bring a raincoat or umbrella on wet days. Rain often makes the canals and old streets even more atmospheric.
Often, yes. Many of our small group tours have regular departures, and you can book at short notice whenever there is space. The live calendar on each tour page shows what is available.
Our small group tours can be cancelled free of charge up to 24 hours before the start of the tour. The exact terms are shown on each tour page and in our terms and conditions.
