Authentic Dutch Experience

Scarlett Entertainment & Events is a Destination Management Company covering Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, and all of Holland. We organize team building activities and incentive programs for corporate groups and VIPs visiting Amsterdam and Holland, delivering experiences and activities that are unique to the region.

Authentic Holland offers an experience that is both unique and educational for your corporate group outings, providing an incredible insight into a community rich in history dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries. It's an excellent choice for a VIP group outing or team building activity, allowing everyone to immerse themselves in a vibrant and traditional living and working community. Perfect for team incentive trips and corporate parties with tight schedules, offering a true taste of Holland, along with a wealth of information in a limited time. Your VIP group will have the chance to purchase traditional handmade clogs and an array of authentic cheeses to take home as souvenirs. You can also decorate your own clog during our workshops for up to ten people, or have your company logo featured on your customized clog keyring to take home and remember the trip by!

Scarlett’s exclusive authentic Dutch experience provides a unique backdrop for your international business trip or private corporate event in Amsterdam, allowing your group to hold meetings, enjoy dinner, and visit the sights. This is also possible by boat! Extensive experience with group visits enables our staff to offer multiple customized options to suit every preference. Five tour options are available, ranging from a typically Dutch experience to a pancake lunch or a personalized tour.

Organized groups will have the opportunity to visit windmills, barns, houses, and museums built in the typical Dutch wooden architectural style. Enjoy traditional tours, walk through the authentic buildings and unique peat meadow landscape, and watch crafts such as clog and cheese-making. End the day with a boat trip on the River Zaan while taking in the stunning landscape and learning about the area’s rich industrial heritage.

Our Authentic Dutch Experience offers five packages

1. Typically Dutch - A walking tour, visiting paint mills, oil mills, or sawmills, and viewing a range of traditional crafts such as cheese & clog-making, pewter working, and Delft blue pottery painting. Visit the museums and windmills to complete the experience.
2. Typically Dutch Plus - Follow a walking tour with a boat trip on the River Zaan. Your tour guide will inform you about the picturesque setting and the area’s rich industrial heritage.
3. Authentic Dutch Experience Guided Tour - This option allows you to book a guide for a tour and customize your own program. Choose either a local or multilingual guide and hear about the history & stories of the Authentic Dutch experience.
4. Pancake Lunch - The day begins at the Museum & Verkade Pavilion before enjoying a pancake lunch in a restaurant located in an authentic 18th-century grain barn originally from Wormerveer. The building has been here since 1976. This package is ideal for international groups offering a truly traditional culinary experience in an authentic environment.
5. Authentic Dutch Experience Customized Tour - This option allows your group to book a guide for a tour and customize your own personalized program.

Useful Tips

• Tours last approximately ninety minutes
• Maximum of 20 people per tour
• Comfortable clothing and footwear recommended
• Multilingual tour guide available for all tour options
• Typical Dutch Plus Tour runs from April 1 to October 1
• If booking our clog workshop, it's recommended to book four weeks in advance of your trip
• For a customized clog keyring, we need your order four weeks before your trip
• During the tour, your group will visit at least one windmill for different purposes. Additionally, they will visit traditional crafts of clog making, cheese making, tin foundry, and special Delft blue pottery painting.

Our Scarlett Event team can arrange luxury coaches, executive fleets, VIP coaches, minibuses, or limousine services to pick your guests up from their hotel and take them to our Authentic Dutch Experience.

Haven't booked your group hotel yet? Our Scarlett Event team is here to help! We work with the very best in luxury hotel group accommodations in Amsterdam, from boutique hotels to large hotel facilities.

Hosting a corporate incentive party, gala dinner, or corporate event in Amsterdam? Let our Events team help organize your event. We work with the best event venues in Amsterdam, from unique event spaces to traditional Dutch venues, large meeting spaces to VIP luxury party venues available to hire in Holland. Our Amsterdam DMC events team can organize amazing local entertainment, catering, decor, and transport.

Contact us at Scarlett today to discuss booking Authentic Holland for your corporate team day or personalized event.