Your Antwerp layover.
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Attraction stop (15 mins)

A tasting of a local champagne beer

Attraction stop (20 mins)

Local beer tasting

Attraction stop (10 mins)

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.

Attraction stop (10 mins)

Boudewijn & Van Cauwelaert Locks – Small Ships, Big Stories Stepping out beside De Vaarkom basin, you’re flanked by chemical stacks on one side and the twin Boudewijn–Van Cauwelaert locks on the other—modest by port standards yet vital for barges and coastal feeders. Your guide deciphers the lock-master signals, points out bow thruster turbulence underfoot, and explains how these “workhorse” gates keep refinery supply lines flowing day and night. Watching tugs nudge short-sea freighters through the narrow sluices offers an intimate warm-up before the mega-lock spectacle still ahead.

Attraction stop (10 mins)

Lillo Windmill Drive-By – Ghost Village Marker Gliding past the solitary brick windmill that once served the vanished village of Lillo, your guide uses this lone survivor to illustrate the port’s sheer sprawl: despite 30 km already under your wheels, you’re barely halfway through its territory. They recount how entire hamlets were bought out and dismantled as docks pushed inland, sprinkling in memories of last-generation villagers who refused to leave.

Attraction stop (10 mins)

Dock 910 Riverside Overlook – Terminal in Motion We step out just meters from PSA’s quays, where straddle carriers buzz like oversized insects and twin crane rows feed the river nonstop. From this single vantage your guide points out four frontiers at once: live container choreography in front of your nose, the Berendrecht and Zandvliet locks just behind us, the Belgium-Netherlands border line mid-stream, and the twin cooling towers of the Doel nuclear plant beyond. A very impressive location.

Attraction stop (15 mins)

This is where we start our tour, right next to an old castle that used to be the access gate towards the old town. It's the perfect location as under this little square, the origin of the port of Antwerp is well hidden. You guide hands out high-quality headsets so you can hear him or her crystal clear throughout the tour.

Attraction stop (1h)

We enter the public Waterbus, a catamaran on steroids that will fly us over the river Scheldt. As we do, we pass by numerous activities and sights, most of them even unknown to TripAdvisor which limits us to provide you with a fully detailed itinerary: talk about going off the beaten path! The Waterbus is public transport, so we're not alone. Our group is small though, so you can ask all questions you have during the tour. When the sun is shining you can sit outside, if you're cold or it rains, you can go inside in the heated cabin with large windows. We'll travel over the river Scheldt into the port and pass by very diverse activities: docks, locks, terminals, industry, nature, villages, etc. Your guide explains what we're passing by and connect what we see to a coherent and structured story about what the port of Antwerp is about. Your guide is a port expert who has worked in the port by himself and provides insider insights: information you can"t find anywhere else.

Attraction stop (1h)

After an hour we reach the center of the port where we disembark and enter an authentic little port village called Lillo Fort. Here, time stood still, while at the same time we have a view on the most recent port expansions: the biggest containerterminal of Europe. We visit the village and pay a visit to a very cozy café where we have a drink, which is included in the price!

Attraction stop (1h)

As we board the Waterbus again, heading back to the city, we pass the same activities once more. This time however, you already know about the basics of this port and so your guide will build further on those insights and really get into the gritty-nitty of what makes the port of Antwerp unique. A whole new point of view opens up as we head back to the town.