Tips & Reviews
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2023 Holiday gift guide
This year’s ExperiencePlus! holiday gift guide features a handful of staff picks, a few items observed on other gift listicles, and one item in particular that comes highly recommended by a husband-wife team who joined us on our inaugural Explorer… Read full article
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Fitness and Training / Tips & Reviews
Expand your riding options with RWGPS
Have you ever heard yourself or a friend say they have no idea where to go on a bike ride? While some of us love to explore and make up routes as we go, others need more than encouragement, they… Read full article
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Packing cubes and other hacks
Each year we pick a gift for travelers who do more than one tour a year, we call this our “customer appreciation gift”. And this year, we picked compressible packing cubes! While not revolutionary, using packing cubes for travel is… Read full article
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Biking / Gear / Tips & Reviews
Let’s talk E-Bikes!
Is an e-bike right for you? Things to know before you go. What is an e-bike? As implied by name, e-bikes are powered by a rechargeable electric battery that supplies power to a motor that gives the bike a boost… Read full article
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Fitness and Training / Gear / Tips & Reviews
Bike shorts we love
The following article was written by Jules Horton, Purveyor of Bicycle Vacations, and Carol Busch, Marketing & Customer Communication Manager. Whenever you think about biking longer distances, your pants should always be top of mind. While the majority of our… Read full article
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Gear / Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
What the Helmet?!
You leave on a bicycle tour in a few days and you’re busy making last minute packing adjustments. You’ve gone through the painstaking work of deciding which shoes you can leave at home, whether you need a back-up jacket, and… Read full article
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Successful air travel starts and ends with Exito
You’ve booked your tour, the departure is confirmed, and now you’re ready to purchase flights for your upcoming international bicycle tour. While ExperiencePlus! provides a range of traveler planning services to anyone taking a Classic, Bike and Boat, or Expedition-style… Read full article
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Travel in good company
Once you commit to taking a guided bicycle tour, the tour operator you choose to travel with is an important decision point. At ExperiencePlus!, we know we’re only one of many companies that would love to show you the time… 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
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Pre-Trip Planning Checklist
After you browse our tours, narrow your choices, and finally book your next, or first, bicycle vacation, the work of planning your travel begins. What are the best next steps we recommend that you take on this journey? To answer… Read full article
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Best Red Flashing Lights for Day or Night Riding
At ExperiencePlus!, we mount back of bike red flashing lights onto all our bikes for added daytime safety. While research on the effectiveness of this practice is limited to a 2004-05 study in Denmark, popular opinion leans towards using ‘daytime… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Finding Flights Just Got Easier
Save Time and Money When Booking Your Flights Flight Arrangements Made Easy With Exito Travel Booking a flight can be somewhat of a grueling, not to mention time consuming, process. Our friends at Exito Travel, a flight consolidator operating globally,… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Improve your European train experience
When you book a tour with ExperiencePlus! you gain access to more travel planning information than you could ever imagine. In fact, you don’t even have to book a tour to access pages of information on planning your next trip… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
5 Ways to Save $ on an EP Bike Tour
If you’ve toured with ExperiencePlus!, you are likely aware that for a limited time each fall we offer a $200 Early Booking Discount per person. That’s right, when you submit a tour reservation before our discount expires (in 2022 the… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Three Off-Season Secrets
If you were lucky enough to travel in Europe between May and August 2022, you likely experienced one (or more) of the following: unseasonably hot temperatures, lost luggage, crowds, high prices. Seeing some of the world’s most amazing places can… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Never lose your luggage again
Two times within one month I had the the displeasure of watching my boyfriend go through the agony of trying to find lost luggage. The first time was arriving home on an airport shuttle only to discover another passenger had… Read full article
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3 Perspectives On Touring With E-bikes
I have known Janice and Larry for more than 20 years. I met Janice through our local women’s mountain biking club. Janice’s svelte, steely physique and superior VO2 max allow her to climb with a powerful, quick cadence. On the… Read full article
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E-Bikes, Past, Present and Future Trends