Private Pedicab/Rickshaw Tour of Rotterdam With a Local Guide

Overview

This private sightseeing tour of Rotterdam is the best way to see Rotterdam and takes you around the historic city center by rickshaw, also known as a pedicab. Travel with ease and be able to experience the city while your driver-guide narrates the highlights; you’ll pass by the only buildings left from WW2, The Cubehouses and other attractions. With a customized itinerary, your driver makes brief stops at the most known places in Rotterdam. Pickup and drop-off include hotels and cruise port. So come and discover Rotterdam, a city that will leave you breathless with its energy, diversity and creativity. Get ready to be surprised, inspired and amazed by everything this city has to offer."

Itinerary

1. Gare centrale de Rotterdam

   Before the Second World War there was no Central Station, but there were four stations around the center. In 1957, the central station was opened at its current location. In 2004 a total renovation of the central station was started, in 2014 the current end result was delivered. The old station could no longer cope with the passenger influx.

   · 10 min

2. Luchtsingel

   In 2011, the municipality of Rotterdam organized the first city initiative, an administrative instrument to stimulate administrative innovation and citizen participation. The inhabitants of Rotterdam were called upon to submit projects that would bring about the enlivening of the city and improve the quality of life in the city. An amount of 4 million has been set aside from the city initiative to implement the project.

   · Non-stop passage

3. Nieuwe Delftse Poort

   In the Middle Ages, one of the 10 city gates that Rotterdam had here. In the 30s, the city of Rotterdam grew rapidly and the gate stood in the way, as they wanted a better flow for the increasing traffic. It was decided to move the gate about 100 meters (a demolition of the gate met with a lot of resistance). During the bombardment in the Second World War, the gate was severely damaged, a year after the bombing the gate was demolished, because it could no longer be finished. Some ornamental works from the old gate were saved and incorporated into the walls of the buildings on the corner of the town hall square.

   · 10 min

4. City Hall Rotterdam

   The town hall was built between 1914 and 1920 (by Henri Evers) and is one of the few buildings in the center of Rotterdam that survived the bombardment of May 14, 1940.

   · 10 min

5. Meent

   Currently, the meent is one of the hotspots in Rotterdam. There are many cafés, eateries and clothing shops. In the 90s, the meent was a street where mainly temporary employment and travel agencies were located, the meent was an atmosphereless street with a lot of vacancy. Robin von Weiler is no stranger to Rotterdam. He owes his nickname Mr. Meent to everything he has done for this street and still does.

   · Non-stop passage

6. Église Saint-Laurent

   The laurenskerk is the only remnant of the medieval center of Rotterdam. The laurenskerk is a cross between a hall church (all buildings equal in height) and a cruciform basilica (here the side towers are lower than the main tower). The church was built between 1449 and 1525.

   · 10 min· Admission included

7. Markthal

   Modern complex with a covered market and several restaurants under an arch of apartments.

   · 30 min

8. In the 70s of the 20th century, architects wanted to create hospitable residential areas with the participation of the residents and other users in response to the large-scale and a gray modernism of the architecture of the reconstruction after WWII. Piet Blom, structuralist and adept of Aldo van Eyck, assumed that large-scale buildings had to be built to the size of people by building them from small-scale recognizable elements. The basic idea, that the building is built on columns, so that the space under the buildings can remain public, is inspired by Le Corbusier

   · 15 min· Admission included

Pickup

Pickup included.

Traveler pickup and drop-off is offered. In case you stay in a hotel in the center the easiest way with the least risk of misunderstandings is to pick you up at your hotel. So please always indicate in which hotel you are staying. We pick up our guests from all hotels in and around the center of Rotterdam, including ones not listed above here. I provide pick up service at the most common docking locations of cruiseships as well. Most sea Cruiseships do dock at the Rotterdam Cruise Terminal, most river cruiseships at the Boompjeskade. In case you would like to be picked up somewhere else please indicate as well. In case you are not in a hotel in the center and don't have any suggestions where to be picked up from, we will suggest a couple of locations to meet. Hotel pickup is offered. View the hotel list on our checkout page to see if yours is included among the pickup points.

How to use your ticket

Please look for the Rickshaw/Pedicab with TourGuys stickers. This is an authorized tourguide of our company.

Meeting and end point

What to know before you go

• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to answer all of your questions. Just call us.
• For safety reasons, the combined passengers weight must not exceed 200 kg/440 lbs.
• For safety reasons, the combined passengers weight must not exceed 200 kg/440 lbs.

Travelers

Pricing per bike (up to 2 people).

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

• From 1 days before : 100% refunded
• From 0 days before : 0% refunded

This activity can be canceled in case of bad weather.

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Product code: 112647P4

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