Tour 20
Flower auction and Lily Tour

Our private tour starts at your hotel at 7.00 a.m.
We will drive for approx. 35 minutes to the largest flower auction in the world '
Royal Flora Holalnd' in Aalsmeer near Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
At the auction, we will walk through the buildings ( 1.6 million sq.meters), take a look at the auction halls with 13 'clocks' for selling cut flowers and 4 'clocks' to sell plants.

We will take a look at the coolstore for cut flowers and will see where Lilies are stored at night before auctioning starts the next morning.
After that, we will visit the very large distribution area, where flower auction employees on electric tractors distribute flowers to the locations of the wholesalers that bought the flowers earlier that morning.

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