Reviews

Having been on the Magnifique lV and lll, we were so looking to be on the Magnifique I. It was wonderful to see familiar faces, such as Chef Extraordinaire Michael, who was the chef in our two previous trips, and Captain Henk, the Captain on the last day of our Tulip tour last year. The tour guides, Frans and Niels were awesome! The hosts Liza and Lineke were outstanding and Denise, our sailor was as good as they come.

Out of three Boat Bike tours we’ve taken, this was the best crew! This was on the Zwaantje! Many thanks to: Willy (Captain), Milton, and Brando. A special shout out to the best Chef, “ever” (Frank)! And then the guides: (Weiger and Els): they were helpful, knowledgeable and a bunch of fun! This group made for a memorable trip! Thank you! Reed and Debbie

We loved the scenery along the way. This is our third Bike and Boat and it was my favorite bike rides. Using the Ride GPS made navigating our rides very easy. The crew was very kind & helpful. My only suggestion is that it’d be nice to have more variety for breakfasts and lunches. Snacks too for the rides would have been nice (like granola bars, chips, candy bars, etc)

Good accommodations, food, staff, bikes. Guide was not good. One guy was even left behind. He contacted me and was able to rejoin us after 25 minutes and she never even knew. She was hard to understand, not because her English was poor but because she made so many unnecessary sounds it was hard to glean what was important.

the mattress was terrible and the smell down in the cabin at times was very bad (septic smell). The last 3 nights the A/C was broken and from day 1 the internet was not working. Now the good stuff, the boat was magnificent, the food was great, the staff super, the guides very personable, the bikes perfectly maintained, the biking amazing,

Amazing trip! Really loved biking through the countryside of Belgium and the Netherlands.

We had a great experience on the Hansa Highlights bike tour. Can’t say enough good things about the whole trip and have referred several friends to this company already! We really like the simplicity of this type of trip where everything is planned and you have a floating hotel where you sleep every night. We chose this boat (De Nassau) because it had operable windows in all rooms. The staff on the boat was so friendly and helpful, they really made us feel welcome and provided “over the top” service the whole time. The bike tour was great too, as was our tour leader Olga. Having the GPS app guide us through the country was great and simple (for the most part…;-)). The Dutch countryside and waterways are beautiful to ride through. Lots of interesting, historic towns on the route. If you haven’t ridden a bike in the Netherlands, you will be amazed at the extensive network of bike paths Everywhere! It’s unbelievable even through some fields between towns! Wish we had it in the US. Most of the time you’ll ride on a dedicated bike path and at times on a smaller road with cars and a bike path. When you exit and enter towns, especially Amsterdam, there will be interaction with road crossings and bikes zipping around you so you have to be ready for that too, but you get accustomed to it. The food was very good and you pack your lunch to take each day on your ride. Overall we thought the trip was very well organized and great fun and a great value. We met lots of nice folks on the trip too from Holland, Canada, Germany and the US. We’d definitely do a trip with Boat Bike Tours again! A couple tips we’d make is to bring a rear view mirror and don’t forget your padded bike shorts!

Nice to unpack only once for 8 days. Boat, staff, guides, tours and bicycles were all great. Barbecue evening was very fun.

Every day we rode through amazing landscapes and every evening came back to the boat for a great meal and a chance to share our experiences with other guests and the crew. The boat felt like a great home away from home, very comfortable, clean and organized the food was plentiful and yummy We loved the fact that we were able to see so much of the country from a different Vantage point, back roads farm fields, small communities And cities, we saw it all. We also really appreciated that we could ride by ourselves or ride in small groups. That was something we could decide on a daily basis. We had all the information get to our daily destination. Once when we got a little lost, we were able to connect with our tour leader and get back to the boat! We would definitely consider doing another boat and bike tour and have recommended boat and bike tours to our friends at home. Even though we do ride bikes at home pretty regularly. I would recommend choosing an E bike for comfort. One suggestion I might have is to establish a WhatsApp call board or WhatsApp connection with everybody at the beginning of the trip so that it’s easy to reach out to people if there’s any changes, for example if the boat is docking at a different location.

Guides and all the staff were great. Barge was beautiful! Biking was on well maintained bikes and in interesting areas!