Every city is flat enough now. Pick one and ride it.
Which Amsterdam tour actually leaves the centre. What a day’s hire costs in Valencia. Whether the e-bike earns its price on the Roman hills. Reviews of the bike tours you can book, city by city.
Four rides that sell a whole trip on two wheels.
A canal loop, a temple back lane, a river path and a cathedral quarter. What each costs, and what the people who rode it say.
01The obvious oneBig Bike tour Amsterdam – See all in 3 unforgettable hoursThree hours across Amsterdam on a city bike, on paths where cars are the guests. The ride that converts people.
02The early startTemples, Canals & Local Life Bike TourOut of Bangkok before the heat, through canal lanes and temple yards the buses cannot reach.
03The quiet ParisCharming Nooks and Crannies Bike TourBack streets, courtyards and towpaths, almost none of it on a boulevard. Half a day, flat the whole way.
04The Barcelona fixHighlights & Hidden Spots of Barcelona Bike Tour w/ Local GuideGothic lanes to the beach in one loop, with a guide who knows which streets open at what hour.
Six cities that read better from a saddle than a seat.
A canal grid built for bikes, two riverbanks with the traffic taken off them, a hill city with motors for hire, and an old town small enough to lap twice before lunch. Six places to start, and the best ride in each.
The best riding anywhere tends to follow a coast.
A sea wall with no junctions on it, an island with the cars banned, a canal towpath that runs for miles without a set of lights. Flat, signposted and hard to get lost on, which is the whole point of a holiday ride.
Spain rides early, eats late, and flattens out by the sea.
All of Spain on two wheels →
Barcelona to the beach, the dry riverbed that crosses Valencia end to end, Seville laid out for bikes years before anywhere else in Europe. Start before nine and the cities belong to you.
Three hours, old town to sand
Gothic quarter, the market, then out along the front. Enough stops that nobody arrives sweating, and short enough to leave the afternoon alone.
When the old town is on a hill
Granada, Malaga and the Valencian back country stop being a climb and start being a view. Worth the extra ten euros on any city with a castle above it.
Sea wall, all afternoon
The Mediterranean promenades run for miles without a junction. Take a hire bike, a swimsuit and no plan beyond lunch somewhere along it.
The bike tours the most riders have already been on.
Every bike tour we have reviewed →The rides that fill before anything else on the calendar, and the reason each one keeps doing it.
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Lion City Bike Tour of Singapore
Ride through Singapore with a local guide such as Benny, Holden, James, or Wyman on a four-hour, small-group tour capped at 12 people. You’ll visit Marina Bay, the Civic District, Chinatown, Little India, Haji Lane, and Kampong Glam, with drink and snack breaks along the way. Expect city traffic, humid weather, frequent stops, and plenty of local tips.
From · $68
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Big Bike tour Amsterdam – See all in 3 unforgettable hours
from $34
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3-Hour Porto Highlights on a Electric Bike Guided Tour
from $53
4
Ninh Binh Full-Day Tour from Hanoi to Hoa Lu, Tam Coc & Mua Cave Via Boat & Bike
from $33
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Small Group Guided Bike Tour of Amsterdam’s Hidden Gems
from $40
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3-hour Complete Prague Bike Tour
from $47
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Temples, Canals & Local Life Bike Tour
from $24
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Hills, Alfama, and Mouraria Tour by Electric Bike
from $25
Past the ring road the riding goes quiet.
An hour from most European capitals the traffic stops and the lanes turn into farm tracks, vineyard rows and canal banks. This is where the day gets long, lunch matters, and the bike stops being transport.
Every ride out of town →
Italy is a hill problem with an electric answer.
Rome is seven hills and two thousand years of paving. Florence sits in a bowl. Tuscany is all gradient. The e-bike turned every one of those from a reason not to ride into the reason to, and Italy now has more assisted tours than anywhere else on this site.
- 1Rome EBike Tour: Appian Way, Catacombs & Roman Aqueductsfrom $102
- 2Top Highlights & Hidden Gems Tour by Cannondale E-Bikefrom $85
- 3Appian Way & Aqueducts E-Bike Tour (Catacombs & Food)from $88
Five ways to ride the States, from a park loop to a canyon.
American riding splits cleanly: a city with a rental desk on the corner, a park with its own road, or a landscape big enough that somebody drives you to the start. Here is what each one costs to get on.
★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · Red Rock Canyon eBike Half-Day Tour
Assisted daysCanyon roads and city hills without the training.
Park loopsTraffic-free road inside a national or city park.
City ridesGuided, three hours, bridges and waterfronts.
Just the bikePick it up, keep it a day, bring it back.
ShorelinesOcean on one side, no junctions on the other.
All 250 rides in the United States →
What a day in the saddle actually costs.
Every ride here, grouped by the price on the door. A guided morning costs less than most museum tickets; hiring the bike yourself costs less than lunch.
Day hire, city loops of two or three hours, and the guided morning rides that most trips are built on.
Full days with lunch, assisted tours on hill cities, and the countryside runs that need a van out and a ride back.
Private guides, palace grounds with a picnic, and the desert and canyon days that come with a shuttle.
Three rides that make no sense any other way.
Plenty of places look fine through a coach window. A city where the bike outnumbers the car, a Roman road closed to traffic, and a limestone valley you pedal across and then row through do not.
The city where the bike is the traffic
Amsterdam has more bicycles than residents and built the road layout around that fact, so the lanes are wide, kerbed off, and given priority at junctions. Riding here is not an activity bolted onto a city break; it is simply how the city moves, and a guided loop mostly teaches you the etiquette so you can carry on alone the next day.
- 1Big Bike tour Amsterdam – See all in 3 unforgettable hours★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 4,929 reviews
- 2Small Group Guided Bike Tour of Amsterdam’s Hidden Gems★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,936 reviews
- 3Off the Beaten Path Bike Tour in French★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 1,632 reviews
Two thousand years of paving, no cars on it
The Appian Way still carries its original basalt slabs, laid in the fourth century BC and closed to traffic on Sundays along the stretch that matters. You ride between tombs, aqueduct arches and catacomb entrances on a surface that rattles every bolt you own, which is exactly why people remember it.
- 1Rome EBike Tour: Appian Way, Catacombs & Roman Aqueducts★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,766 reviews
- 2Top Highlights & Hidden Gems Tour by Cannondale E-Bike★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 1,760 reviews
- 3Appian Way & Aqueducts E-Bike Tour (Catacombs & Food)★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 1,498 reviews
Pedal between the karsts, then let somebody row
The limestone towers north of Hanoi rise straight out of flooded rice fields, and the lanes between them are dead flat and barely wide enough for a car. The standard day pairs an hour or two in the saddle with a sampan through the cave tunnels at Tam Coc, rowed by foot, which is a thing you will want to see whatever you came for.
- 1Ninh Binh Full-Day Tour from Hanoi to Hoa Lu, Tam Coc & Mua Cave Via Boat & Bike★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 4,384 reviews
- 2Rottnest Island Full-Day Bike and Ferry Trip★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 2,548 reviews
- 3Ninh Binh Day Trip: Hoa Lu-Trang An/Tam Coc-Mua Cave-Cycling-Boat★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,886 reviews
Four rides that are gone before you land.
Most rides here can be arranged the night before. These four run on palace entry slots, ferry timetables, seasonal shuttles and a fleet of bikes small enough to run out.
- 01Versailles Palace Bike Tour with Market & Marie-Antoinette hamletPalace entry is a timed slot and the bike is a separate fleet. Both have to line up, and the morning ones go first.
- 02Rottnest Island Full-Day Bike and Ferry TripThe bikes cross on the ferry with you and the sailings are fixed. Miss the booking and the island is a walk.
- 03Red Rock Canyon eBike Half-Day TourThe canyon road runs a one-way loop with a shuttle window either side of it. Outside that window there is no ride.
- 04Hidden Kyoto E-Biking tourSmall group, small fleet, and the whole city is on the same three weeks of blossom or maple. It sells out early.
How hard is it? Ask the hills, not the distance.
Fifteen kilometres across Amsterdam is an easy morning. The same fifteen across Lisbon is a different sport. Gradient, surface and stopping frequency decide whether a ride is a holiday or a workout, and a motor cancels most of the argument. Assisted tours suit anybody who can ride a bike at all; self-guided hire suits people who would rather stop when they feel like it.
The motor did not ruin cycling. It opened up the hills.
A third of the tours here now run on assisted bikes, and they are the reason Lisbon, Rome and Granada are rideable at all. You still pedal; the hill just stops being the thing you think about. Three to start with, then the countries doing it best.
By country — where the riding is
Two hours, half a day, or the whole thing. Pick your saddle time.
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