A private chauffeur
in Giethoorn.
A chauffeur for the day Giethoorn deserves: away from Amsterdam early, on the water before the first groups, lunch somewhere with a view, the national park in the afternoon, and a car waiting through all of it.
The car stays with you. So does the chauffeur.
Almost everything written about visiting Giethoorn comes down to timing. Arrive early and the canals are quiet, the bridges are empty and the boats are free. Arrive at midday and you queue. A private chauffeur is the only arrangement that puts the departure hour entirely in your hands, because the car leaves when you are ready and comes back when you have finished rather than on a timetable set for a group.
The second advantage is the shape of the village. It is long and narrow, walked from end to end, and doubling back is a waste of an afternoon. Your chauffeur can set you down at one end, drive round while you walk the footpath and the bridges, and be waiting at the other end with the coats and the shopping already in the boot. The same trick works for the national park, where you can enter at one point and leave at another.
Because the day begins in one city and ends in another, we price it as a fixed quote rather than by the hour: hourly hire has to start and finish in the same place. Give dispatch the pickup address, the hour you want to leave and how long you would like in the village, and the whole thing — drive, waiting, stops, return — comes back as one amount. Our private day trips page explains how a full day is put together.
Collected at your hotel early, at the canals before the crowds, and home in the evening with one chauffeur and one agreed price for the whole day.
Set down where the footpath begins and collected where it ends, so the village is walked once rather than twice.
A whisper boat in the morning, the old farmhouse museum after, and an afternoon in Weerribben-Wieden without working out how to get between them.
If the gap between flights is genuinely long, the village is reachable and back again from Schiphol with the luggage staying in the car.
Visiting family and business guests driven to the village they have heard about for years, with a chauffeur who knows where the quiet bridges are.
Hourly hire starts at 2 hours, includes 40 km per hour and begins and ends in the same city. For days that cross into other cities we prepare one fixed quote instead.
Point-to-point rides — Giethoorn to Schiphol from €445, or to any other address — are quoted as one fixed amount at booking.
Pick your route and class online. The price you see is the price you pay — taxes included, no surge.
Instant confirmation with the chauffeur and car details before pickup. For Schiphol arrivals we track the flight ourselves.
A professionally dressed, English-speaking chauffeur, a quiet premium car, water and chargers on board.
The everyday workhorse: sedans for one to three passengers.
Room for groups, families and luggage, with up to seven seats.
Flagship saloons for executives and VIP arrivals.
The pinnacle: Mercedes-Maybach, by request only.
Giethoorn to Schiphol and back at one fixed price — flight tracked, chauffeur in arrivals with a name sign, sixty minutes of free waiting.
Point-to-point chauffeured car service in and around Giethoorn — booked online, quoted upfront, driven in a black Mercedes.
First-class sedans and the Mercedes-Maybach for the occasions in Giethoorn that ask for more than a taxi.
Everything AmstelCab does in Giethoorn on one page — Schiphol transfers, hourly hire, intercity rides and the fleet.
Private chauffeur, airport transfers and hourly hire in Zwolle, Overijssel.
Private chauffeur, airport transfers and hourly hire in Leeuwarden, Friesland.
Hourly hire works when the day starts and ends in the same city, which is rarely the case here. For a trip out from Amsterdam, Schiphol or Zwolle we quote the whole day as one fixed amount covering the drive, the waiting and the return, so a long stay on the water changes nothing on the invoice.
That depends entirely on whether you take a boat and whether you walk the full length of the footpath. Tell dispatch how many hours you have in total and we build the day backwards from the return time, rather than handing you a schedule to keep up with.
Yes, and there is no separate waiting charge inside an agreed day quote. The car stays near the quay with your belongings, the chauffeur is reachable by phone, and you are collected at the point you name when you step back onto dry land.
Frequently done. Zwolle is the obvious companion, and the route north also passes within reach of Meppel and Steenwijk. Add the stop when you ask for the quote and it is built into the same fixed amount rather than treated as a second booking.
As one fixed all-in amount, agreed before the car moves: Schiphol transfers at a fixed rate per class, hourly hire from €65 per hour, and other point-to-point rides quoted per kilometre. Taxes are included and there is no surcharge for paying by card.