Our boat bike tours in Belgium

Bike and barge tours in Belgium: Journeys of cuisine and culture

If you’re considering a cycling vacation in Belgium, you’re in for a treat, especially if you’re visiting Flanders, the home of Flemish-speaking Belgians! And we should know, because we’ve been running popular bike and barge tours in and to Belgium for years, with routes like Best of Holland and Belgium and Discover the Charm of Amsterdam and Bruges, all of which either start or end in the vibrant culture-and-cuisine hotspots of Bruges and Brussels.

Picture this: every day you wake up in the comfort of your floating hotel, eat a tasty breakfast and set out for an exciting day of cycling the country’s picturesque, flat landscapes, biking along canal towpaths, through traditional villages, and along quiet country lanes. Maybe stop for a traditional Belgian beer from a centuries-old Trappist brewery, or enjoy a coffee on a cobbled lane, looking forward to the wealth of heritage in Belgium’s sophisticated cities. You could experience this on our Through Flanders Fields and Along the Somme tour or the relaxing Amsterdam-Bruges Tour.

Medieval masterpieces of Bruges on a bike barge tour in Belgium

The classic bike and boat tour in Belgium travels between Bruges and Brussels, giving you the chance to discover Brussels, the cosmopolitan Belgian capital, with its regal Grand Place (Grote Markt), the impressive Saint-Michel Cathedral, and its famously underwhelming occupant, the Manneken Pis. After superb drinking and dining, it’s time to burn some energy by pedaling towards Bruges, the UNESCO-listed old town of which has more romantic canals, famous churches, and cute stone lanes than is fair for one single compact and easily-walkable city.

But don’t stop there! Flanders still has so much more to offer: the diamond city of Antwerp’s modern architecture; the absolutely gorgeous medieval city of Ghent; and Mechelen, a former Dutch capital where the 318-foot (97 meters) tall Sint-Rombouts tower gives you fantastic views of the cycle route to come.

Cycle cruise the French connection & waterways to Amsterdam

Flanders is, of course, only one half of Belgium, and you can enjoy a bike and barge tour through southern Belgium – the French-speaking part, also known as Wallonia – as you cycle your way to Paris. Visit Somme Valley battlefields, the chateau of Chantilly, and the many delights of northern France’s rolling rural countryside. Or why not consider seeing the Netherlands too, with our Bruges – Paris Cycle and Cruise Tour or Through Europe’s Heartland: Between Amsterdam and Paris!