Expertly guided Antwerp Port Tour, (VIP-) car or minivan included
Step inside Europe’s second-largest port with an expert port guide. Forget generic sightseeing and slow boat loops: this private, three-hour road adventure is designed to plunge you straight into the beating industrial heart of Antwerp. Your guide is a seasoned port professional turned storyteller, armed with a steering wheel and decades of first-hand anecdotes you won’t find on Google or Wikipedia. What you’ll experience: Ever-changing vistas – One minute you’re dwarfed by container giants at the Deurganckdock, the next you’re eye-level with Europe's biggest chemical cluster, or spotting rare birds at one of the many natural reserves. Insider stories & access – Hear how pilots “surf” 400 m ships up the Scheldt, why a single mis-timed bridge lift can paralyse rail traffic, and what it’s like to work a night shift on a quay that never sleeps.
Options
Full VIP experience
Full flexibility: Adjusted routes, out of town pick-up or drop-off locations and any specific topics you'd like to include.
Red Start Line Champagne: To add to the luxury experience, we'll provide a chilled bottle of Red Star Line Champagne
Luxury VIP car: Our tours are carried out with a comfortable car, but for our VIP'S we upgrade it to a top-tier luxury vehicle.
A guide in a suit: Our guides are always decently dressed, but for our luxury tours we put on our best 3-piece suits.
Pickup included
What's included in Expertly guided Antwerp Port Tour, (VIP-) car or minivan included
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
MAS - Museum aan de Stroom
Your port guide parks beside the Museum aan de Stroom’s striking terracotta tower and leads you to the riverside promenade. From this lookout you get a first real look into the impressive history of our port, pointing out past challenges, distant crane forests, the world-record Kieldrecht Lock, and hidden chemical towers. It’s a vivid, storyteller’s briefing that transforms the city-to-port journey ahead into a narrative you’ll follow in real time.
Historic Docklands Drive – Het Eilandje & Red Star Line Cruising the old quays of Het Eilandje, your guide drives the car passed towering iron cranes—silent sentinels of Antwerp’s sail-to-steam heyday—and points out their once-revolutionary gearwork as if opening a time capsule. At the red-brick Red Star Line Museum, they recount how millions boarded steamers here for New York, punctuating the tale with insider tidbits about cargo stowage, steerage life, and dockworker lore.
Havenhuis Vantage – Zaha Hadid Meets Historic Dry Docks You disembark at a quiet pier opposite the shimmering Havenhuis, its diamond-glass hull seemingly afloat atop a 19th-century fire station. Framed by the adjacent dry docks—now being transformed into the city’s Maritime Museum—the spot is catnip for photographers. Your guide decodes Hadid’s design choices and shares insider gossip on how the new museum will breathe life into these granite basins.
Inclusions
- Gratuities
- Fuel surcharge
- Parking Fees
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Advised minimum age: 12
- Not recommended for travelers with serious respiratory diseases
Meet
Pickup and Dropoff
You can choose to be picked up from a list of locations, or alternatively, have the choice to make your own way to the meeting points
Additional Information
Please meet us outside, as it's not always possible to park nearby.
Meeting / End Points
- This little square at the riverside at the center of our town is the perfect location to start our port journey. There is a little white building in the middle, in the shape of a ship. I'll be waiting for you in front of it.
