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Guided Antwerp Port Tour, in your Car or Minibus

8 Reviews 5.00 out of 5 stars Based on 8 reviews collected by City Balloon Tours and TripAdvisor |
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| Antwerp, Belgium
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from $295.15 per group (up to 15)

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While we travel through the port, your expert guide brings you to unique locations right next to big activities.
The biggest locks in the world are located in Antwerp, and we get up close and personal with them
We drive around, right next to, through and under all the port activities
We pay close attention to the magnificent Port Building designed by Zaha Hadid
Right in the center of the port we visit an authentic port village
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On average, this is booked 17 (0) days in advance.
2 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
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Offered in: English
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Overview

Turn your own wheels into a front-row seat on Antwerp’s living, breathing port, narrated by a true insider
Invite one of our expert port professionals to hop aboard your car, mini-bus or coach and feel the docks come alive through stories, sights, and spontaneous detours tailored to your group.

What's Included

  • Gratuities
  • A coach or minibus needed during the tour: our guide will board your bus.
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Meeting Location

Meeting point

Groenendaallaan 394
2030 Antwerpen, Belgium

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Droogdokkenweg

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.
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10 minutes Admission Ticket Free

Kastelweg (pass by)

Oosterweel Contrast Drive – Medieval Spire vs. Europe’s Largest Wharf As the car glides past the tiny 15th-century Oosterweel church, your guide draws your eye to the colossal construction yard right beside it—the Oosterweel works, currently Europe’s biggest wharf, where tunnel segments for Antwerp’s long-awaited Ring closure are being cast. In a few animated sentences, they connect the dots between medieval river parishes, post-war port expansion, and today’s multi-billion-euro infrastructure overhaul.
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Scheldelaan (pass by)

Scheldelaan Duality – Petro-Chem Titans & Graffiti Wall Rolling south along Scheldelaan, your guide turns the car into a moving theatre: on the right, stainless tanks, cracking towers, and steam plumes of Europe’s second-largest chemical cluster; on the left, a kilometre-long flood wall exploding with colour—the annual international graffiti contest where artists trade spray cans for safety helmets. Your guide unpacks how pipelines run under the roadway like hidden arteries.
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Boudewijnsluis

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.
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10 minutes Admission Ticket Free

Scheldelaan

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.
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10 minutes Admission Ticket Free

Berendrecht Sluis (pass by)

Berendrecht Lock Fly-By – Gateway for Giants As your car rolls along the service road, the Berendrecht Lock yawns open beside you—one of the world's biggest sea locks and the main doorway to the docks beyond. Your guide rattles off jaw-dropping stats and decodes the choreography of tugboats and line-handlers. If luck’s on your side, a 300-metre bulker or container leviathan will be gliding past the guide rails, giving you a windshield-level view of hull plates taller than city buildings. Even without a vessel in motion, the sheer scale—and your guide’s insider commentary—turn this quick drive-by into a highlight of port engineering prowess.
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Zandvlietweg

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.
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10 minutes Admission Ticket Free

Lillo

Time-Warp at Lillo Fort – Geese & Gunpowder beside Chemical Titans Your guide steers you over Lillo Fort’s ancient roads, trading smokestacks for cobblestones in seconds. A gaggle of resident geese greets you on the grassy ramparts while 18th-century fishermen’s houses and a tiny dock evoke life two centuries ago. Amid café scents and birdsong, your guide paints vivid tales of Spanish sieges, smugglers, and the community that clings to identity in the shadow of the world’s second-largest chemical cluster just across the dike—proof that in Antwerp’s port, past and present coexist within a single heartbeat.
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30 minutes Admission Ticket Free

Ettenhovendijkweg (pass by)

Antwerp-North Hump Yard Drive-By – Rail Symphony in Motion From the car you peer down on Antwerp’s vast marshalling yard, a spiderweb of tracks where up to a thousand wagons are reshuffled each day. Your guide narrates the gravity-shunting ballet: locomotives push mixed trains over the “hump,” wagons roll downhill, laser sensors and track retarders brake each car, and computer-controlled switches slot them into new consists bound for Germany, France, or the Ruhr. If timing is right, you’ll watch the process live—a hypnotic clatter that completes the port’s road-rail-river triad.
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Lubeckweg

Container Canyon Finale – Granite Giants & Europe’s Fruit Gateway Your guide threads the car into a maze of multicoloured container stacks—steel towers so close you can read the box seals. On one side loom house-sized granite blocks awaiting export; on the other, refrigerated “reefer” racks hiss around Europe’s largest fruit terminal, ripe bananas and citrus moving from ship to supermarket in hours. An exhilarating last burst of port life before you head back to the city.
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5 minutes Admission Ticket Free

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Additional Info

  • Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Not recommended for travelers with serious respiratory diseases
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Q: What is the cancellation policy for the Guided Antwerp Port Tour, in your Car or Minibus?

A: You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the tour for a full refund. For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the tour start time.If you cancel less than 24 hours before the tour start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.Any changes made less than 24 hours before the tour start time will not be accepted.Cut-off times are based on the tour local time (CET). Read more Apr 2025

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the tour for a full refund.

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Frequently Asked Questions (8)

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Q: What is the cancellation policy for the Guided Antwerp Port Tour, in your Car or Minibus?
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You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the tour for a full refund.
  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the tour start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the tour start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the tour start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the tour local time (CET).
Apr 2025
Q: What's included in the price?
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The following is included:
  • Gratuities.
The following is NOT included:
  • A coach or minibus needed during the tour: our guide will board your bus.
Apr 2025
Q: What is the weather cancellation policy?
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This tour requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

Apr 2025
Q: What is the minimum age for this tour?
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There is no minimum age for this tour, so bring your wee one along for an adventure..

Apr 2025
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If a date or time is not listed on the calendar, it’s sold out or unavailable for another reason. Support cannot assist further if a date or time is not on the calendar.

If you find a date and time that works for you, book it NOW because things always sell out at this time of year.

Apr 2025
Q: Is this an accessible tour?
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Accessibility information for the Guided Antwerp Port Tour, in your Car or Minibus is as follows:

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travelers with serious respiratory diseases
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Apr 2025
Q: Where is the meeting point for this activity?
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Detailed check-in instructions – including meeting point address, Google map, and parking information – for Guided Antwerp Port Tour, in your Car or Minibus will be included in your confirmation email from City Balloon Tours. Please be sure to double and triple check your email address is correct at checkout so this important email makes its way to you!

 

 

Mar 2024
Q: How long does a refund take to reach my card, and can I get it faster?
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Once your refund is processed, it usually shows on your card statement within 5–10 business days. The exact timing depends on your bank or card issuer.

Want it sooner? When you cancel, choose Receive a refund to my wallet instead. The credit is in your Wallet straight away and is applied automatically at checkout on your next booking when you’re signed in with the same email. You can see your balance any time in My Wallet.

If you paid part of your booking with Wallet credit, that part always goes back to your Wallet. Trip protection isn’t refundable.

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What's Included

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  • Gratuities
  • A coach or minibus needed during the tour: our guide will board your bus.

Additional Info

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  • Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travelers with serious respiratory diseases
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Advised minimum age: 12

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