Tour 20
Flower auction and Lily Tour

Our private tour starts at your hotel at 7.30 a.m.
We will drive for approximately 40 minutes to the largest flower auction in the world,
'Royal Flora Holland' in Aalsmeer, near Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
At the auction, we will take a walking tour through the buildings (20 million sq. ft.). Auctioneers operate  13 digital clocks to sell large quantities of cut flowers, and 4 digital clocks are used to sell plants. The buyers and wholesalers no longer need to be physically present at the auction hall;  they can purchase all flowers and plants online from their office desks, and log in from anywhere in the world to buy the flowers and plants of their choice.

We will visit the cold storage rooms for cut flowers and see where Lilies are stored overnight before the auction starts the next day.
After that, we will visit the vast distribution area, where flower auction employees on electric tractors distribute flowers to the locations of the wholesalers who bought them earlier that morning.

After the auction, we will visit a wholesaler center for small buyers, like florists and garden centers. At this company, they can buy smaller quantities than at the auction.