Reviews

Our guide, Miko, was extremely competent and knowledgeable throughout the entire trip, and we really enjoyed and appreciated his assistance and background planning that made the experience great.
The crew of the Gandalf were equally experienced navigating us expertly from harbour to harbour. The food aboard was outstanding as well as varied each evening. Every dinner was excellent.

Great team of guides and crew–caring, professional, fun. Delicious meals. I will strongly recommend Boat Bike Tours.

Such a fantastic and well-run excursion that we just signed up with Boat and Bike for another tour next fall! Everything met or exceeded expectations. This is a quality organization that cares about its’ clients.

The tour was well organized and professionally run. The boat (The Fleur) is not super fancy but it is clean, comfortable and homey. The food was excellent and the staff made an effort to be warm and went out of their way to create an atmosphere of camaraderie among the guests. Everyone on our tour used e-bikes, but the route would have been doable without electric assist for anyone in moderately good shape. As the cabins are below water level the atmosphere was slightly damp (it was also fall, maybe not an issue in the summer) and this made it impossible to dry wet garments below decks and some guest had trouble with allergies. As this was a fully guided tour it was sometimes difficult to have any independent experiences. I had never been on a group ride before and found it frustrating not to be able to stop if I wanted a drink of water or to take a photo. It was also stressful riding as a unit; crossing traffic en mass and keeping the exact pace of the group at all times. If you love the fun of having friends to ride with, you will enjoy, but personally I will pick a self guided tour in the future so I can enjoy the actual riding part of the trip. I would definitely recommend this tour company to friends and family. It was a really good value for the money and they run their business well.

The staff were great and the meals were fantastic.

Exactly as expected. Wonderful guide, he was knowledgeable, funny and loved his job. Ship crew were accommodating and helpful. Tour provided beautiful countryside, good food, ship was adequate. Rides were well planned, lots of time to ride, break, tour, eat….perfectly orchestrated.

Our guide Frans was amazing. We loved that the tours were all organized and led for us.

Tour guide bike leader Frans was excellent. Nice disposition and also very informative. Laundry options were lacking. Dinners were well prepared. Hot breakfast such as oatmeal would have been nice. Perhaps earlier dinners would afford more time to explore villages in the evening. Captain and crew very good and responsive.

I booked this experience as a retirement gift for my wife. She loves to cycle and cycling in Europe was a dream. Now it became true. I have mobility issues and stayed on the vessel all the time where I had a hoot with captain Stefi and her crew of three. Cheryl had the time of her life, 335 kilometres with lead Thomas and sweep Francine. The vessel, Fleur, accommodates 20 passengers, but each is treated as a king or queen. Fleur has secrets in every nook and cranny, and the meals were sumptious. We started with 10 stranger riders, 6 new “staff” and parted 11 days later as warm friends. We would join Fleur again for this priceless experience

Loved everything and everyone. We will do another trip in the future. Food was excellent. Guides were excellent. I rented an e-bike, loved it! Would always rent one. I might say that on this trip there were only one size of e-bikes to rent: Large. I am 5’8” so I was fine but there were 2 women on the trip that were 5’1” or 2” and they looked liked kids of the big heavy bicycles. They also had more difficulty handling them. I live in the country and I’m not used to bicycling in cities with a lot of people. It was a learning curve for me, but honestly I thought it was a great experience. I will do it again next year for sure!! It was a great adventure!