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Cuba / Featured / Highlights & Stories
Tour leader shares Cuba travelog
In March 2025, ExperiencePlus! tour leader Melanie Chilesotti, who lives in Padua, Italy, traveled to the island nation of Cuba for an 8-day tour of Cycling Central Cuba with 11 ExperiencePlus! travelers. It was her second season touring in Cuba.… Read full article
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Webinar playback: All about e-bikes
Watch recording of January 21, 2025 webinar: All about e-bikes Presenters:Maria Elena Price, ExperiencePlus! co-owner Igor Baccini, EP bike fleet manager Carol Busch, EP marketing and customer communications manager Read full article
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Featured / Highlights & Stories
2024 UK Expedition: Land’s End to John O’Groats
Want to know what it’s like to bicycle tour in Great Britain for 22 days on an ExperiencePlus! Expedition? Thanks to Kay and Kevin Funk, who joined the Land’s End to John O’Groats tour in 2024 and emailed us their… Read full article
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Austria / Belgium / Croatia / Featured / France / Highlights & Stories / Italy / Netherlands / Portugal
Top 10 bike tours for families
Start a new tradition ExperiencePlus! has led every possible combination of grandparent, parent, child, uncle, sister in-law, and friend group on a vast array of private, custom and regularly published departures in Europe and South America since 1972. As a… Read full article
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Belgium / Denmark / Featured / France / Highlights & Stories / Italy / Spain
2025 New tours
Many people ask us how we decide where to go next. The process includes a dash of science and a splash of inspiration. We listen closely to traveler, local expert, tour leader and vendor partner recommendations, make a short list,… Read full article
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Biking / Featured / Tips & Reviews
All about e-bikes
ExperiencePlus! has a wide variety of pedal assist e-bikes available for rent on almost all* tours in Europe and South America. As implied by name, an e-bike uses a rechargeable electric battery that supplies power to a motor that gives… Read full article
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Follow Erik Weihenmayer’s self-guided bicycle adventure
The trailer for “Soundscape” – an award-winning 2023 short documentary by Timmy O’Neil that features Erik Weihenmayer, a global adventure athlete and author who is fully blind, as he ascends a massive alpine rock face deep in the Sierra Nevada,… Read full article
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Featured / Highlights & Stories / Portugal
Azores Gravel Explorer: Green never looked so fun
When photos from the inaugural Azores Gravel Explorer started appearing in the tour photo gallery we got a few goose bumps. First, it was thrilling to see the tour finally in action. Developing a tour located on a remote island… Read full article
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New: Self-guided tours in Italy
ExperiencePlus! is excited to introduce new self-guided tour offerings in Italy, beginning in spring 2024. From the shores of Lake Garda and the peaks and valleys of the famed Dolomites to the Apennine Mountains, Tuscany’s golden landscapes, and the green… Read full article
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Book & Film / Featured / Tips & Reviews
Best bike movies for inspiration
I’ll never forget the first time I watched Breaking Away. Everything about the film mesmerized and charmed me. The fake Italian identity. The friendship among the Dave, Mike, Cyril, and Moocher. The ambition. The catastrophic pump in the spokes. The… Read full article
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Featured / Tips & Reviews / Travel Tips
How to book a tour at the last minute
We understand how a sudden urge can tug at the heart, or how an unexpected change in life direction can open the door to spontaneous travel. So when it comes to joining an ExperiencePlus! tour at the last minute, we… Read full article
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Croatia / Featured / Italy / Portugal
Is a Gravel Explorer tour right for you?
Since launching our new Gravel Explorer tour style in 2022, almost 100 travelers have joined us on one of our new offerings in Croatia, Portugal and Italy. When we developed this new tour style, we wanted to create an affordable… Read full article
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About ExperiencePlus! / Featured
Top 10 cycling holidays
From the ancient spiritual pilgrimage of the Camino De Santiago and the Lakes District of Patagonia, to the storybook landscapes of Bavaria and the undiscovered beauty of Corsica, here are 10 of our best guided bike tours. We chose this list from… Read full article
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Featured / Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
How to Reserve Extra Hotel Nights
Many of our travelers plan a bit of a cushion around their ExperiencePlus! cycling adventure to have time to get over jetlag, discover new places or enjoy a bit of ‘dolce vita’ before or after their tour. If this is… Read full article