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Here’s how your holiday will TRIP REGISTRATION space where and her family unfold… hid during the Nazi occupation of To register, contact the Netherlands. This is one of the Alki Tours at (206)935-6848 Day One: Arrive in most moving and important sites in the country. After our visit, we will or 1(800)895-2554 We recommend arriving in the embark on our chartered, electric afternoon to Amsterdam’s Schiphol You may also register on our canal boat for lunch and a 2-hour airport, where your local tour tour. Our boat tour will conclude web site at manager will be waiting to take you mere steps from our next museum, to your 3 or 4-star hotel in an www.alkitours.com the world-famous . electric or biodiesel vehicle. Our Here our guide will show us works A deposit of $500 per person hotel is centrally located, but not in from some of the Netherlands’ most a crowded or noisy area. You’ll be important artists, including is due within 14 days of in the heart of all that the city is booking to confirm your Rembrandt and Vermeer. After our known for: a crisscrossing network tour of the museum, you’ll have the reservation. Full payment is of canals which creates a rest of the afternoon and evening due 90 days prior to landscape of more than 1,700 free to explore the city. You can the trip’s departure. bridges and countless rows of continue to enjoy the Rijksmuseum charming brick houses and cafés. on your own or visit some of the Please make checks payable to: Amsterdam is at the cultural and city’s other museums. Perhaps Alki Tours, 6417A Fauntleroy historical center of Europe. Refresh you’d like to have dinner at one of Way SW, Seattle WA 98136 before joining your tour director Amsterdam’s cozy brown cafés. and the rest of your travel Meals: Breakfast and Lunch Follow us on Facebook companions for an exclusive, private welcome dinner. Meals: Dinner

Day 2: Amsterdam Today we will get a local introduction to some of Amsterdam’s most iconic sites. We’ll start the day with a tour of the house. We will have an introductory talk before visiting the

It’s Included: Day 5: The Hague to • Airport transfers to and from via Delft Schiphol airport A quick biodiesel motor coach ride • 10-Day Fully Escorted Vacation will bring us to the charming town of Delft, birthplace of artist • 18 MEALS: All 9 Breakfasts, Johannes Vermeer and origin of 6 Lunches and 3 Dinners Delft Blue pottery. We will enjoy a • 3 nights in Amsterdam, 2 nights in private tour of one of Delft’s oldest The Hague, 2 nights in Rotterdam ceramics factories, where still today and 2 nights in Dordrecht the artisans handcraft and hand-paint Day 3: Amsterdam to The Hague these exquisite ceramics. Then, • Admission to the Anne Frank House, via Zuid-Kennemerland National we’ll sit down in the factory for a the Rijksmuseum, the Peace Palace, Park Royal Delft Pottery Museum, the traditional Dutch lunch. Following SS Rotterdam tours. We will depart on a biodiesel motor lunch, you can even paint your own coach after lunch to Zuid- Delft blue tile with the help of one • Transportation and tours on an Kennemerland National Park which of the factory artists. (Optional $30). electric canal boat, deluxe eco encompasses more than 3800 Those who don’t wish to paint will friendly motor coach with restroom, hectares (9,300 acres). The dune have time to wander the charming the RotterTram, water taxis and a ecosystem of the park is home to historic Dutch sailing ship town streets. more than 40% of the Netherlands • Bicycle, kayak and e-boat rentals at plant and animal species, including select locations wild horses, fallow-deer and even

• The Neutravel Company tour Wisent, which are the last wild manager Eve Sapp bison in Europe. We will have time to walk or bicycle among the dunes • A pre-loaded OV-Chip Card for and hopefully to see some of these transportation on buses, trains and incredible animal species! Once waterbuses for use in your spare time we’ve had our fill of fresh sea • Carbon emission offsets for 3 tons of breezes, we’ll continue to The carbon dioxide per person Hague. Our hotel will be perfectly When our time in Delft is complete, • Baggage Handling situated for an evening of city we will continue to the heart of the exploration or a return to the city of Rotterdam to our unique seashore at the nearby town of VALID PASSPORT REQUIRED hotel- the SS Rotterdam. She was Scheveningen. once the “grande dame” of the CANCELLATION POLICY Meals: Breakfast fleet, sailing More than 90 days prior to departure: Day 4: The Hague from Rotterdam to New York Full Refund Today we will learn about the in- beginning in 1958. She has been 89-60 Days prior to departure: credible influence of The Hague, lovingly restored and moored in the 75% Refund known as the International City of Rotterdam harbor, where she now Peace and Justice. Our local guide takes guests on a cruise through 59-41 Days prior to departure: will help us discover the “royal city history and nostalgia as a 4-star 50% Refund by the sea” as we visit the Peace hotel. In the early evening, we’ll Palace, home to the International take a short ride to the Fenix Food 40-31 Days prior to departure: Factory, where we’ll enjoy a tour of 25% Refund Court of Justice, the Binnenhof, Noordeinde Palace and more. the artisan food makers’ stalls 30 Days prior to departure: Maybe we’ll even catch a glimpse before sitting down to a chef-curated No Refund of King Willem-Alexander! After a dinner of local products. After pleasant stroll through living dinner, join your tour director for an There can be no refund for any unused history, we will enjoy a lunch easy and quick walk over to the portion of the tour. featuring some of the unique flavors Hotel New York, the former home of Holland America Line’s offices TRAVEL INSURANCE which blend so beautifully in this Information regarding a variety of city of many cultures. The afternoon and one of Rotterdam’s most travel insurance policies are available and evening are yours to relax or striking historic buildings. From upon request. We recommend that continue exploring. Consider here, you can keep exploring the city sufficient insurance be purchased to visiting the Escher museum or the or take a quick watertaxi ride back cover the possibility of lost or to the SS Rotterdam. damaged baggage, accidents or Mauritshuis. illness. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch Meals: Breakfast, lunch & Dinner in their fight against the water. Day 9: Dordrecht to Amsterdam via After our private tour of the wind- Utrecht mills, we will return to the ship for a Our final day of travel through the lunch fit for a captain before we con- Dutch countryside will take us from tinue sailing to Dordrecht. There, we Dordrecht, through the “Green Heart” will disembark the ship and bid a of Holland to the city of Utrecht. warm goodbye to her There is something for everyone to hospitable crew. The town of enjoy in this charming city. You’ll Dordrecht, one of the oldest in the have time for lunch and then to tour Netherlands, is full of history, the Dom tower’s archeological sites, Day 6: Rotterdam beauty and nature. Our hotel blends shop or maybe rent a kayak and see Your morning is free, but try not to these elements very nicely and will the city from the canal system. In the sleep too late and miss the serve as a perfect base for relaxation early afternoon, we’ll continue to (included) tour of the SS or exploration. Consider visiting the Amsterdam. Back in the city center, Rotterdam’s art installations, engine Kyck over den Dyck flour (wind) you’ll have time to relax and room and lower decks! mill, the Grote Kerk or the Dordrecht reminisce over our adventures as you At lunch time we will travel to the museum. prepare for your journey home. heart of downtown Rotterdam Meals: Breakfast and lunch Meals: Breakfast where we will board the RotterTram, a historic 1969 tram Day 11: Amsterdam to Home car that has been converted into a Enjoy one last leisurely morning in private, moving restaurant. We will Amsterdam before your departure dine on a 3-course lunch as our home or to your next travel guide shows us Rotterdam’s destination! architectural highlights- the Central Meals: Breakfast Station, the Market Hall, the cube houses and so much more! The tour will give us a taste of the city and you’ll have the late-afternoon and evening free to explore some of the Day 8: Dordrecht sites at your leisure. Meals: Breakfast and Lunch In the late morning we will depart for the Biesbosch National Park, one of Northwestern Europe’s most Fast Facts: important freshwater tidal wetlands. Here we will enjoy a relaxing • US and Canadian citizens need a morning and afternoon of valid passport for this tour exploration. We will all pay a visit • Why aren’t we calling it Holland? the park’s visitor’s center to learn North and South Holland are just more about the waterfowl and two “states’ in the country of the mammals that rely on this rich Netherlands. ecosystem. Then, you can share an electric boat with your traveling • The currency is the euro. Get some companions, or set out in a kayak, euros before you leave home or Day 7: Rotterdam to Dordrecht canoe, stand up paddleboard or use your debit card in an ATM via Kinderdijk bicycle (rentals included) to explore once you arrive to draw out Euros. We will say “goodbye” to the the wetlands and islands. Or find a steamship Rotterdam and “hello” to quiet spot to sit and enjoy the peace • You will need a travel adaptor for our historic tall ship. Once aboard, of nature. We will all meet in a your electronics if you’re from the anyone wishing to assist the crew scenic spot for an included picnic US or Canada. The Netherlands can help them raise the sails, lunch. Once our exploration is uses 230 volt electricity and a navigate and maybe even take the complete, we will journey back to different plug-type. helm! We will use sail power as Dordrecht for a short walking tour • Why are we offsetting the carbon? much as possible to reach our first back to our hotel (optional). In the This tour is being offered in stop - the UNESCO world heritage evening, we will enjoy a group partnership with The Neutravel site of Kinderdijk. Here we will dinner at one of Dordrecht’s finest Company, whose mission is to walk amongst the 19 historic locavore restaurants. provide authentic tours with a low windmills which aided the Dutch Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner environmental impact.