We've got a big group (5 adults and 3 kids) and spending the day in Kinderdijk is high on our list. However, the logistics are a bit daunting. On a previous visit two of us with a rental car, a visit to Kinderdijk was easy-peasy.
I'd rent an 8 passenger van for the day but the rental fees are $400 and up.
The train to Rotterdam and the Water Shutter could be a good option but I'm uncertain on how to get our gang from the train station to the Water Shuttle dock - not to mention that they only have one departure per hour.
There's also a bus that goes out to Kinderdijk but again the connection/schedule from the train is something that I am unfamiliar with.
Thanks in advance!
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the bus schedule is driving me to drink!!!!!
But before I do that, it seems that it would be much simpler to go to Dordrecht (direct train from Amsterdam and only a slightly longer ride than Rotterdam) then catch the bus from there because it starts at the station.
The bus is run by QBuzzDMG on behalf of both the Dordrecht Region and R-NET for Rotterdam, and changes line numbers accordingly before it reaches Kinderijk!!! So at the Dordrecht end it is Qbuss/streekbuzz 93 but at the Rotterdam end it's R-NET 489. However the Rotterdam end is not central so it's mess, it begins at Kralingse Zoom metro station - but the Rotterdam Metro doesn't serve Central railway station, at which point I realised it is simpler to stay on the train from Amsterdam through to Dordrecht and get the bus from there!
The problems do not end here, both Qbuzz and RET use the same not-very-good journey planner software - and Qbuzz has an entire website which can throw tantrums (or 403 errors). But if you can persuade it to work Qbuzz have the schedule sheets for the R-NET service as well . Go to this page https://dmg.qbuzz.nl/lijnfolders and download the plans for streekbuzz Lijn 93 and R-NET lijn 489. Then get a pen and patch the useful Kinderdijk, Molenkade times from the 489 onto the 93 pages. The buses that run through as a direct service are marked with an "a".
No bus on Sundays!
The journey is in fact really easy, you just get a fast train from Amsterdam to Dordrecht, walk out of the main exit and the bus stop is on the right.