‘t Zaanse Koopmanshuis Anno 1694 offers you a cheerful guest room, with your own bathroom, or a luxurious guest suite with a kitchen, bathroom with Jacuzzi and your personal Finnish sauna. The central location of our B&B offers you an ideal base for both an exploration of the surroundings and visits to Amsterdam, the coast and the many tourist attractions in the Province of Noord-Holland.
You are just a few minutes’ walk from: Zaandijk Zaanse Schans railway station, with direct links including Amsterdam Centraal railway station (4 x per hour, 17 min. journey); the famous De Zaanse Schans open-air museum with windmills, a cheese dairy and a clog workshop; the Mill museum; shops and a supermarket, five restaurants, bars with outdoor seating, waterbuses, swimming pool and attractive rambling, cycling and canoeing routes.
Attractions within about 30 minutes by car – often also readily accessible by public transport – include the historic cities of Haarlem and Alkmaar (cheese market on Fridays), the old, picturesque towns of Monnickedam and Edam and, slightly further away, Hoorn and Enkhuizen on the former Zuider Zee; the charming earlier island of Marken; Volendam, a popular tourist fishing village; Beverwijk’s Zwarte Markt, Europe’s largest indoor market; the popular coastal resorts of Zandvoort, Castricum and Egmond aan Zee with their beaches, sea and dunes and, in the spring, the flowering bulb fields.
