Royal Experience - Private Tour in World's Oldest Diamond Polishing Factory
4.4
60 Ratings
Amsterdam
Discover the world of diamonds with a private tour at Royal Coster Diamonds, the oldest diamond polishing factory. Learn about Amsterdam's diamond legacy, explore the diamond collection, and get expert advice on purchasing diamonds.
Duration: 1 hour
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Royal Coster Diamonds - During the tour, your personal guide explains everything you want to know about the mystical world of diamonds. He or she will tell you about the origins of the diamonds and the process a diamond goes through. This diamond process takes millions of years. Learn how to evaluate a diamond with the 4 C’s (carat, cut, clarity, color) of diamond valuation. There is so much more to know and appreciate about a diamond than just the sparkle. You will be surprised.

Besides seeing amazing diamond jewelry and Europe’s largest collection of unset diamonds, you will also see the Royal 201 diamond. This is Royal Coster’s own patented diamond cut and known to be the best diamond in the world. A regular brilliant has 57 facets, while this unique diamond cut has no less than 201 facets. These extra facets cause to make the light reflect even more within the diamond. This creates a sparkling effect that is no match for any other diamond shape in the world.

What's Included
  • All taxes, fees, and handling charges included
  • Guided tour with a professional guide
  • Complimentary sparkling goody bag
What's Not Included
  • Transportation to/from attractions
  • Food and drinks
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information

The Royal Experience at Royal Coster Diamonds, established in 1840, offers a private tour that affords a deeper dive into the fascinating world of diamonds. This memorable experience lasts approximately one hour but the memories will stay with you for a lifetime.

Your tour guide will unfold our illustrious heritage laced with royal anecdotes. Discover the journey behind Amsterdam being known as the City of Diamonds and peek behind-the-scenes by touring a private room in one of our four distinguished 19th-century villas. Here, we exhibit the enduring works of art we’ve crafted, along with a portion of our massive diamond collection. As part of the experience, you will also get a chance to buy diamonds with personalized guidance from our experts.

During the private tour, you’ll acquire knowledge on how to evaluate a diamond and what makes some diamonds shine brighter than others. Keen on winning your friends over with your newfound insights? Reserve your private tour today and transform into a diamond connoisseur.

  • May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
  • While we try to give the tour in the language of your choice, we cannot guarantee it due to staff availability. We do always guarantee English guides.
  • not accessible for people with walking difficulties
Location
Royal Coster Diamonds
Paulus Potterstraat
At the Museum Square, between the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Ritabo8133yy
Mar 18, 2024
Perfect experience - We made reservations before we arrived in Amsterdam for this tour. Mae was our guide. She was very knowledgeable and had a great personality. At the end of the tour we wanted to buy a couple things. We were seated in a room just off the main show room and offered something to drink(including champagne). Nareerat, the manager, showed us diamond earrings from the showroom. We enquired about buying loose diamonds so we could get the quality we wanted. We were very pleasantly surprised when several loose diamonds were sent to our room. Quality and clarity of each diamond was reviewed with us as was the qualities of the settings. There was absolutely no pressure to the sale. The stones were set and returned to us within 20 minutes. They are gorgeous!! My husband had them show us Diamond rings also. They showed us several rings and I chose a beautiful 5 Diamond ring with perfect color and clarity. They sized it up my ring within 15 minutes. We received certificates including cut, clarity and color. Fantastic activity in Amsterdam! Highly recommended!
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Julithm
Mar 16, 2024
Interesting tour - This was a mother & daughter morning excursion before our afternoon flight home. A quick and interesting ~30 minute tour led us through the three Royal Coster buildings in the Museum District.
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Maaik2015
Jan 29, 2024
Nice experience and worth the time and ticket expense. - We really enjoyed the tour. It was also interesting for our son (13yrs). Super! Very friendly and experenced tourguide. After the tour you can see (and shop) the beautiful jewelery they have for sale. You get a present after the tour!, blingbling
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Andrew
Aug 24, 2023
Fascinating visit - I discovered this visit was available by reading about it in the guide in the hotel. I expected to be part of a group, but it turned out to be a 'one to one' experience! The member of staff was very informative and knowledgeable and it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience, something quite different.
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151tristanl
Aug 17, 2023
Excellent service - Entrance near the corner, with the name Coster Royal Diamond. Multiligual support. I am the only Vietnamese there but the company sent a Vietnamese agent to help me experience the journey. There is also gift at the end of the experience. Thank you for agent Bella
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Lilalucas
Aug 16, 2023
Wonderful - Wonderful experience, very nice and experienced guide. We loved this tour. Thank you very very much. We learned about 4C to rate a diamond.
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Tep74
Jul 29, 2023
Diamond tour - Very informative, beautiful diamonds. Everything explained about the company and also received a free gift. Well worth the money
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941sachinb
Jul 19, 2023
Amazing - It’s amazing place to know about diamonds polishing and cutting process from the experts. Our attendant was very kind and made our experience worthwhile. Highly recommended.
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O3745rmnicolar
May 14, 2023
Amazing experience - Went with friends while on girls trip to Holland. This tour was one of the best bits of our 5 day trip. The staff were amazing (especially Naira). We learnt lots. Will definitely be coming back with our husbands credit cards in the future 😉 Well worth booking a tour and if you are looking to buy any special jewellery this is definitely the way to do it.
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Rajivs43
Sep 7, 2023
Garbage experience and just a grift to get people to buy diamonds, not actually learn anything - I don't know what this was. We got to the original tour location at our scheduled time and tried to show our tickets to the people working there, but they had no interest in us and seemed more interested in turning their chairs away from us every time we walked up to the window to ask a question. So we just followed the signs to the Diamond Museum (which was more like a hallway). There we were told to keep walking and the museum was up ahead. But once we got to the other building, they told us we were in the wrong place and had to walk back to the first building where there was no organization. Oh, and the whole time, you're just walking through different stores trying to sell you diamonds. If you look like you can't afford them, they turn their nose down at you. Total waste of time.
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