Bespoke Amsterdam Experiences is a specialist incoming tour operator in Amsterdam. We design and run the touring part of your client’s trip in the Netherlands and Belgium: the guides, the tickets, the transfers and the logistics in between. Hotels, flights and restaurants stay with you.
Who you work with
Stephan started Amsterdam Experiences in 2016 with weekend walking and bike tours through the Amsterdam neighbourhoods he loved. Today a team of 30 local guides run private tours across the Netherlands and Belgium supported by a personal team in Amsterdam. From your first enquiry to the day itself, you deal with one person who knows your client’s programme.
Official ASTA member. We follow the ASTA Code of Ethics: every service as confirmed, or an alternative of equal or greater value. At the ASTA River Cruise Expo in Amsterdam in March 2026, we ran the Amsterdam tours offered under the ASTA brand.
Preferred supplier for WorldVia Travel Network advisors, with negotiated network rates.
Preferred supplier for KHM Travel Group, with negotiated network rates.
We work with advisors from many of the leading host agencies and consortia, including Virtuoso, Signature Travel Network, Travel Leaders, Fora, Cruise Planners and Nexion.
Stays with you: hotels and accommodation, flights, restaurant reservations, and venue sourcing and event production. Need a full-service DMC to contract hotels or produce an event? We will tell you upfront and point you to one.
Sign up once for the Advisor Portal: 58 private tours across the Netherlands and Belgium, searchable by town, interest, length and group size, each priced for your client’s party.
Every itinerary you build in the portal comes out as a finished document you can send the same day. You choose whose name is on it, whether it shows prices, and how your client opens it.
The PDF is ready to send. Word lets you copy the text into your own proposal. The live link opens as a web page on any phone or computer, stays up to date when you change the itinerary, and lets your client download the PDF.
Open the example itinerary ↗Exactly what your client sees, as a live link. Opens in a new tab.
Sign up once with your agency and your IATA, CLIA or ARC number, so your commission is set up correctly from the first booking. A short guided tour shows you round on your first visit, and our Amsterdam team is one tap away by WhatsApp, phone or email.
There are two ways to book: build your client’s programme in the Advisor Portal and let us confirm it, or reserve one of a small selection of tours straight away.
Either way, we run the day and you have one local contact the whole time. Commission starts at 10% and is paid the month after the tour, to you or your host agency. In the portal it is already worked into every price, so you simply quote the price shown. Agencies on net rates see their net price instead.
We built these tools to answer the questions clients ask us every week, and we keep them up to date. They are free, need no login and work on any phone. Send a link straight to your clients, or use them while you plan a programme.
Tickets go on sale on Tuesdays at 10am, six weeks ahead. This gives the exact morning for any travel date.
Every river ship calling at Amsterdam, Zaandam and Zaanse Schans, with berths and times, updated daily.
Enter travel dates and see which flowers will really be out, region by region.
Enter travel dates and see which of nearly 100 Christmas markets in the Netherlands and Belgium are open, with hours and drive times.
Type a ship’s name: where she is now, the day she reaches Amsterdam or Zaandam, and her berth. Every result has its own link to send to a client.
Hotel pages. Our Amsterdam 5-star hotels guide covers every five-star and luxury hotel in the city, each with its own page of tours from that hotel door, which is useful when you are placing a client.
Our group spent most of the day with Stephan on a fantastic tour of his beautiful homeland. He is passionate about his country, its history and the people. He is a skilled storyteller, really putting you in the moment whether your learning about the strong Jewish history, the wars or the architecture of the city.
The other tour guides that work with him are also excellent! They have high expectations for their guides and consistently deliver an excellent experience. Whether you want a walking historical tour, a foodie tour or a bike tour, Bespoke Amsterdam Experiences will deliver beyond your expectations.
Ginger Kohler, Travel Agent
Independent advisors, host agency members and agency teams who sell private, high-quality travel: FIT, small private groups and bespoke touring, rather than mass-market group tours.
Not strictly. We are an incoming tour operator and ground handler: we run the touring, guiding and ground transport in the Netherlands and Belgium. Hotels, flights, restaurants and event production stay with you.
As early as possible, especially in spring and summer and for museum tickets. Our standard minimum is 48 hours’ notice, and we always try to help with last-minute requests.
Yes. We cap groups at 15 guests per guide, and 10 inside museums. Larger parties are split across several guides from our team of 30+.
Yes. Every tour we run is private, so it is built around your clients’ needs rather than squeezed into them. Tell us what they need when you book and we plan the route, the pace and the stops around it: shorter walking stretches, seated breaks and step-free alternatives where they exist. Wheelchairs, walkers and prams are welcome, and we plan city routes with Amsterdam’s cobbles and canal bridges in mind. Where a site is genuinely not accessible, we tell you before you book. For clients who cannot manage the steep stairs of the Anne Frank House, we offer a private, step-free virtual reality experience of the Secret Annex.
All private tours are commissionable from 10%, depending on volume and programme. In the Advisor Portal your commission is already worked into every price, so you simply quote the price shown. Agencies on net rates see their net price instead. Commission is paid to you or your host agency the month after the tour. WorldVia and KHM advisors get our negotiated network rates.
Full refund if cancelled in writing 7 or more days before the tour, minus non-refundable purchases such as pre-booked museum tickets. Cancellations within 7 days of the tour are non-refundable. Multi-day programmes have their terms confirmed at booking.
English, Dutch, Spanish, German and French. Tell us your clients’ preferred language when you send the brief.
Within 24 hours, and usually straight away between 8am and 10pm Amsterdam time, seven days a week.
Send us the dates, the party and what they love, and we come back within 24 hours with a plan. Phone and WhatsApp +31 6 43 41 37 99, 8am to 10pm Amsterdam time, seven days a week.
