by Sarah Kuta
Last updated: 12:00 PM ET, Thu August 28, 2025
The Netherlands’ tulip fields are iconic, creating a dazzling natural spectacle every spring.
Now, you can immerse yourself in the season’s colorful bounty with Boat Bike Tours, which is offering more tulip tour departures than ever before in the spring of 2026.
Between late March and early May, the company will offer 54 departures of six itineraries. Travelers can choose between various tour lengths, boat choices and biking styles, and groups and charters are also welcome.
“Being from the Netherlands, tulip tours are our specialty—and we’ve got a wide variety of ways to see the spring bloom,” said Laurens Winkel, chief executive officer of Boat Bike Tours. “Choose a short five-day tour, our popular eight-day premium tour aboard a Magnifique barge, a sail-and-bike trip into the Wadden Sea or our new tulips and Dutch heritage tour. With all of them, you’re sure to enjoy fields upon fields of colorful flowers, our equally famous windmills and cheeses, picturesque towns and more by boat and bike.”
Pedal among the blooms in the Netherlands (Photo Credit: Boat Bike Tours)
Boat Bike Tours’ tulip tours range from five to eight days. Premium tours are also available, offering a higher level of comfort aboard the vessel. All of the voyages sail roundtrip from Amsterdam and include visits to the world-famous Keukenhof gardens, known for their millions of blooming tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and other flowers.
Depending on the itinerary, travelers might also pedal through many other tulip fields in North and South Holland. Other attractions include the largest flowering bulb field in the world near Den Helder, the largest flower auction in the world in Aalsmeer or the Hortus Bulborum garden in Limmen, which is dedicated to the preservation of rare and historic bulbs.
Travelers can also explore the Netherlands’ iconic windmills and delicious cheese. Every itinerary visits the Zaanse Schans heritage site, which has functional windmills, traditional houses, an old-fashioned grocery store, clog maker, cheese farm and more. Zaandam and its windmills, the Schermerhorn windmill museum, a cheese farm in Zoeterwoude, the Dutch cheese capital of Alkmaar and the cheese towns of Gouda or Edam are also on the trips.
Boat Bike Tours offers trips on a variety of vessels, including small-but-comfortable barges, larger cycling cruise ships and classic two-, three- and four-masted schooners. Guests can choose between guided tulip tours or an independent biking itinerary.
Boat Bike Tours recently opened an office in North America and works with travel advisors.
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