Featured
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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
About EP!
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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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About ExperiencePlus! / EPTurns50
Top 50 rides from EP tours
No one knows ExperiencePlus! tour rides better than our tour leaders and staff who design and ride them all the time. So as part of our 50-year celebration in 2022, we asked our tour leaders and staff to list their favorite… Read full article
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About ExperiencePlus! / Tips & Reviews / Travel Tips
What’s All the “Plus!” About?
The Long and Short of our Bicycle Tours If you’ve poked around the tour finder on our website, or been on tour with us, you’ve likely noticed many of our bicycle tour itineraries have two departure length options: a short … Read full article
Highlights & stories
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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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Highlights & Stories / Portugal / Spain
What’s your Camino?
Choosing between Cycling the Camino de Santiago from Roncesvalles to Santiago in Spain and the Portuguese Camino from Coimbra offers two unforgettable journeys along Europe’s iconic pilgrimage routes. Each Camino brings its own challenges, landscapes, and cultural experiences, making them… Read full article
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Ready for Adventure? Seek out South America
Expedition: Cycling Chile’s Carretera Austral – 17-day guided tour Dates: January 4-20, 2025Price: $8,495 per person, based on double occupancy What is an ExperiencePlus! Expedition all about? Read this introduction to see if it’s right for you. The famed “Carretera… Read full article
News
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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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See you in Moab for Roll with Bob Roll
Join the fun November 7-10, 2024 FAQsSpecial ExperiencePlus! pricingPre-Registration It’s June and you want to find a bicycle tour to take next year. You’ve heard that spring is a lovely time to bike in Europe, but the idea of being… Read full article
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Spotlight: Road bike fleet
When you bicycle tour with ExperiencePlus!, you should expect to ride a professionally-tuned piece of high-performing equipment that amplifies your travels. You’re on a bicycle tour, after all! ExperiencePlus! takes great pride in the quality of our diverse fleet of… Read full article
Recipes
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Recipe: Skillet baked macaroni and cheese
I started making mac ‘n cheese from scratch in the early 1990’s after being introduced to my first vegetarian cookbook – the New Laurel’s Kitchen. I fell fast and deeply in love with the idea of revamping my eating and… Read full article
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Lemony Cannellini Soup with Turkey and Greens
Despite early fall temperatures in northern Colorado consistently reaching 80 degrees over the last week, it is, indeed, officially autumn. The local cottonwood, honey locust, ash and maple seem to agree, as evidenced by their flame yellow leaves. This also… Read full article
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Recipe: Homemade Giardiniera
Giardiniera, which means “from the garden” in Italian, originated in Italy as a way to preserve fresh vegetables for the winter months. Traditionally, it was made with whatever vegetables were abundant in the garden, making it a practical and flavorful… Read full article
Tips & Reviews
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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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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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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