Reviews

We had a great experience. It was our first Boat and Bike Tour so we did not know what to expect. Our guide, Nina, was excellent and tailored our ride to our wishes. The boat was nice and the crew was very helpful. I would definitely recommend the tour and hope to return for another.

This is my third trip with Boat Bike Tours, and all have been exemplary. On this most-recent trip, all went well. Every member of the staff were wonderful, the captain, first mate, chef, housekeeper, and guide. The barge was fine and th cuisine was excellent. The rooms were clean and well kept. Because I am an experienced cyclist, I prefer to self-guide using Ride With GPS, which worked just fine. Using the Ship Finder app allowed me to track the barge and meet it easily.

Great staff, food, clean boat, and value for cost.

This was our first biking trip and we LOVED it! The accommodations were comfy, the food very tasty and the staff wonderful, friendly and went out of their way to accommodate everyone. The daily biking was well organized and the routes, with both the daily map and GPS directions, were easy to follow. We were very happy with the towns we visited and feel we saw the “real” Holland that most people wouldn’t experience by driving the country. We will definitely be planning another trip.

The tour included everything we needed or wanted, and nothing we didn’t. The staff were welcoming, helpful and fun. The accommodations were clean and comfortable. The dinners were tasty and varied. The bikes were fine.

I will talk about the trip itself and the very careful care the crew takes to make our experience over and above our expectation. The crew of 5 gets introduced and right away, you realize you can ask any of them for information. Elke the captain, Monique the hostess, everyone was wonderful. They really helped create a personal experience for each. The towns and countryside we biked through, just gorgeous. Our guide Marcel would stop at pertinent monuments and towns to augment our understanding of history and the importance of certain towns. The travel through historically wonderful small towns is juxtaposed to the larger cities of Antwerp Ghent and Bruges. And countryside, flowers, farms, canals wind mills in between. And whenever someone on the trip needed extra care, they were immediate in their responses. I would be remiss not to mention the gastronomic gourmet meals Chef prepared. Unbelievable.

Great crew, friendly, helpful and spirited. We always felt comfortable in a very clean and well maintained ship. I can’t say enough about the professionalism and enthusiasm the crew showed us always wanting make sure we were happy and taken care of. Highly recommend this fun experience!! Fun biking and sailing every day.

Beautiful boat, comfortable room/bed/bath, attentive staff and bike leaders. The food was delicious, and mealtimes were enjoyable. The bikes we rode were comfortable, easy to operate, very little maintenance issues along the way. My only “suggestion” would be when a large number of people choose one route, it would be nice, especially when biking towns/villages/cities, to have a person in the middle of the group to make sure we don’t get lost and can learn to navigate the city streets with assurance!

We’ve done two Boat/Bike tours. They manage to create a cordial atmosphere on board and out biking such that everyone feels connected. The route this year on the Hansa cities tour was super well planned and brought us through forests and fields we would never have found ourselves. Life aboard the Magnifique 2 was, well, magnifique! Gourmet food; extra spacious and comfortable cabins.. in short, a terrific trip!

I paid an extra $150 for guided tour as I was cycling by myself, and received nothing for it. I got the exact tour information as everyone else. Nothing “guided” about it. I only saw the guide once in passing on the entire tour. Staff were okay but not as friendly as on other boat/bike tours I have done. Only were nice the last day (tip day). The room was nice. My non-ebike worked fine. The guys helping with the bikes were the friendliest of the crew. Dinner was really late for us personally. Dinner “started” at 6pm but you didn’t start getting food until 6:30 and dinner was usually around 7:30. The drink tickets were very deceptive as they did not specify times. Per the information cocktails with NL alcohol was included but we were charged none the less. We would not have purchased had we known how they really worked. The nightly tour information was not very helpful. Really did not discuss detours and how best to cope with them—we were on our own for this. The app was the most helpful item. My husband and I really enjoyed previous boat/bike tours we were on because of the locations we were at port. This trip was dismal from that perspective. We stayed in one commercial port after another, I believe only 2 ports were pleasant.