Tips & Reviews
Travel Planning
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Get your 2025 Tour Finder today
Sometimes a good-old-fashioned PDF is just what you need for a digital side-by-side comparison of tour departures. Sometimes you want a good-old-fashioned printed version you can hold in your hands. Either way, we’re convinced you need a schedule 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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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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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
As an operator that runs most of our trips in Europe, our trip calendar is driven by the ebb and flow of peak- and off-season travel. That is to say, what ExperiencePlus! defines as peak- and off-peak season. For instance,… 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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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Travel Photography Tips for Your Next Tour
By Kevin Wenning – Kevin just finished a private tour that he organized through Southern Tuscany, here he shares some technical and easy to implement tips for taking great photos. Have you ever been determined to come home with better… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
The Future Of Travel – Health and Safety
Speculation about who, how, when and what the future of travel will look like fills my inbox every day. In an effort to summarize all the ideas and speculation we have started a new series in our newsletter called the… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
The Future Of Travel – Traveler Preferences
Speculation about who, how, when and what the future of travel will look like fills my inbox every day. Newsletters from every corner of the travel industry include surveys, articles and industry experts imagining what will happen next. The World… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
The Future Of Travel – Airline Travel Trends
Speculation about who, how, when and what the future of travel will look like fills my inbox every day. Newsletters from every corner of the travel industry include surveys, articles and industry experts imagining what will happen next. It is… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Travel insurance basics
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Top 4 Tours for a Culture Fix
4 Great Tours for a Cultural Fix Bicycle travel is a great way to get a taste for local culture – in its many forms. Here are a few of our bicycle tours filled with phenomenal routes and deep dives… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Summer Cycling: Pro Tips For Keeping Cool
Summer is here which will inevitably lead to some hot days for cycling. We’ve got a few tips to keep you cool(ish) while riding, but before we jump into our tips for keeping cool, let’s revisit some of our old… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Escape with these great virtual getaways
Virtual Experiences Throughout The World As most vacation plans remain in limbo we’re continuing to keep the sense of adventure alive with creative alternatives. Until we are all able physically hit the road, we’ve got a few virtual escapes that… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Need a Cure for Cabin Fever?
Virtual Experiences Throughout The World While travel is temporarily off the table for most of us, virtual tourism is not. Galleries, museums and national parks all across the globe are just a few clicks away. Here’s a list of a… Read full article