I WANT BIKE TOURS · THE WORLD ON TWO WHEELS
See the city the way it rides.
Reviews of the best bike tours on earth, city by city. Amsterdam canals and Paris courtyards, the cobbles of Rome and the lanes of Barcelona, e-bike climbs and unhurried days through the vineyards. We sort through the listings so you book the right ride.
Worth the airfare
Three rides that belong to one city.
You can rent a bike almost anywhere now. But the canal ring in Amsterdam, the car-free paths of the Versailles estate, and the temple backstreets across the river in Bangkok are rides you can only do in these places and nowhere else on earth.
Amsterdam
The Canal Ring on Two Wheels
No city was built for the bicycle quite like this one. You roll along the Prinsengracht with the gabled houses leaning over the water, cross the little humpback bridges, slip through the Jordaan lanes too narrow for a car, and stop on a bridge to watch the boats. There is no traffic to fight here, only other cyclists, and after an hour you stop thinking about the bike at all. This is cycling as the locals have done it for a century.
- 1 Big Bike tour Amsterdam – See all in 3 unforgettable hours
- 2 Small Group Guided Bike Tour of Amsterdam’s Hidden Gems
- 3 Countryside Bike Tour from Amsterdam: Cheese, Clogs & a Windmill
Paris
Versailles by Bike from Paris
Take the train out, then ride the estate the way the court once did: down the Grand Canal where Louis XIV rowed gondolas, out to Marie-Antoinette's hameau with its mill and farm, through the formal gardens and the parkland most visitors never reach on foot. A picnic from the village market on the grass, the palace gold in the afternoon light, and miles of car-free paths through the grounds. You cannot see Versailles like this any other way.
- 1 Versailles Palace Bike Tour with Market & Marie-Antoinette hamlet
- 2 Paris: Charming Nooks and Crannies Bike Tour
- 3 From Paris: Versailles Bike Tour w/ Palace, Gardens, & Picnic
Bangkok
The Backstreets and Canals of Thonburi
Cross the river from the chaos of central Bangkok and the city changes completely. Narrow concrete paths thread between stilt houses and temples, over the khlong canals on footbridges a handlebar wide, past gardens and orchid farms and monks at dawn. A local guide knows the maze, and you ride somewhere no tour bus can follow, the hidden, green, water-laced Bangkok that almost no first-time visitor sees.
- 1 Bangkok: Temples, Canals & Local Life Bike Tour
- 2 Bangkok Classical Bicycle Tour
- 3 Bangkok: Night Bike Tour with Temples & Flower Market Visit
The ride everyone books
If you only clip in once.
More travellers reach for this one than any other on the site. A safe first booking in a city you are still finding your way around.
The classics
The World’s Most Popular Bike Tours
Amsterdam, Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin. The city rides and countryside loops travellers reach for first, in the places they most want to pedal.
Where to ride
Pick a place to pedal.
Amsterdam for the canals. Italy for cobbled cities. Paris for hidden courtyards and a day out to Versailles. Barcelona for Gaudi and the seafront, Spain for the Andalusian old towns, Bangkok for the temple backstreets. Each place, with the rides it does best.
Which kind of ride
What do you want from the day?
The kind of ride matters as much as the city. Three ways to spend a day on a bike, depending on the time you have and how hard you want to pedal.
Rome, Florence & the lagoon
Italy is better at bike speed.
A car cannot follow where a bike goes here. You roll over the Roman cobbles between the piazzas and out along the Appian Way, thread the Renaissance lanes of Florence to a viewpoint over the Duomo, and trace the canal paths and bridges of Verona and the Veneto. Fast enough to cover a city in a morning, slow enough to stop for a coffee whenever a square opens up in front of you.
See the best bike tours in Italy →Paris, Versailles & Bordeaux
From Paris courtyards to vineyard lanes.
France rides two ways. In Paris you slip the famous sights for the hidden courtyards, the covered passages and the Seine quais, then take the train out to ride the car-free park at Versailles. In the south the city falls away into the Bordeaux vineyards: flat lanes between châteaux, a tasting at the turnaround, a long lunch before the roll back. The most rideable cities in Europe, and the wine country at their edge.
See the best bike tours in France →The best part
You always cover more on a bike.
A bike tour gives you a city the way a bus or a walk never can. You feel the gradient of the streets, smell the bakery before you see it, and reach the far corners a walking tour runs out of time for. A guide who rides it every day knows the lane with no traffic and the bench with the best view. You finish having seen twice as much, with the wind still in your hair.
Browse every bike tour →Asia by bike
The other side of the Asian city.
Cross the river in Bangkok and ride the temple lanes and canal paths of Thonburi. Trace the old machiya streets and the Philosopher\'s Path in Kyoto before the crowds. Loop the parks, the Civic District and Chinatown of Singapore after dark. These are city rides with a different texture: a guide leads you off the tourist grid into the quiet, green, lived-in backstreets that most visitors walk straight past.
- 1 Lion City Bike Tour of Singapore
- 2 Bangkok: Temples, Canals & Local Life Bike Tour
- 3 Singapore: Lion City Highlights Bike Tour
By time in the saddle
How long do you want to ride?
Some days you want two hours and the city highlights. Some days you want the sights and the hidden lanes in between. And some days you want to roll out of town and stay out, vineyards to villages, breakfast to dusk. Pick the day, we will point you at the ride.
A couple of hours
Just see the city from the saddle.A guided spin through the centre: the landmarks linked by the back lanes, the squares you would never find on foot, and far more ground covered than a walking tour, all before lunch.
Half a day
Ride the highlights and the hidden bits.A relaxed half-day that strings the famous sights to the quiet courtyards and riverbanks in between, with a guide who knows which lanes the traffic forgets and where the good coffee stop is.
A full day in the saddle
Roll out past the city limits.A full day on quiet country roads: vineyards and villages, a long lunch, the kind of unhurried ride between châteaux and riverbanks that you plan a whole trip around.
Sun, tapas and flat old towns
Spain rides easy and warm.
From Barcelona\'s Gothic Quarter and beachfront to the orange-tree streets of Seville, the riverside of Valencia and the old town of Granada, Spanish cities roll flat, sunny and made for a relaxed pedal. A guide links the Gaudi facades, the cathedral squares and the market stops, and the seafront path is never far away. The classic Mediterranean city ride at its most easygoing.
See all 65 bike tours in Spain →By city
Pick a city and clip in.
Amsterdam for the canal ring. Paris for the hidden courtyards and Versailles. Rome for the cobbles between the piazzas. Barcelona for Gaudi and the seafront. Copenhagen for the most bike-friendly streets on earth. Bangkok for the temple backstreets across the river.
By country
Every country worth a day on a bike.
From the canals of the Netherlands to the cobbles of Italy, the vineyards of France to the old towns of Spain, the temple cities of Japan to the parks of the USA. Browse by the country you want under your wheels.
Morning spin to sundown
A perfect day in the saddle.
First time on this kind of trip and want a full day on the bike? Here is how it flows, from the quiet morning streets to a last easy roll as the light turns gold.
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