31 Jul 2022
Purchased an 8 hour private day trip and we were returned to the hotel after 5.5 hours. We had just taken a cruise so we asked to change the itinerary of the tour and the guide was agreeable. He suggested a boat tour in Rotterdam but when we got there he said we would need to pay for it with euros. We did not want to pay more as we thought everything but dinner was included in this expensive tour. We then asked to see the Dutch country side (we had already been to Kinderdijk) and were told it was too far and there wasn't much to see. He did take us to the lovely town of Delft and a very nice ceramic shop where the owner explained how his art was created. Our guide tried to take us to the nearby beach but wasn't familiar with the area. We were able to drive by and see the North Sea but he was not sure of where to stop so we could get out and explore. The guide was nice and knowledgeable of the areas he was familiar and gave us some small gifts he had purchased. He had lived in the States so his English was very good which was appreciated. However, he used the f* bomb often especially since he kept getting lost. He finally used GPS toward the end of the tour to get us back to the hotel so he could go meet his dinner date.