Viator Travel Blog

It’s 4 degrees Celsius and I’m cold to the bone. I’m about to get on a bike for four hours.

Cycling comes with an abundance of scrupulously studied and proven benefits. We all know this. Cycling reduces stress levels, improves sleep quality and greatly enhances your general well-being.

This may bear thinking about when it comes to choosing your means of seeing Berlin.

Bike tours are a fun and efficient way to get around cities and their surrounding areas in a small amount of time. Catering to every level of ability, bike tours tend not to be strenuous and are often much less exhausting than walking everywhere and catching local transport! Great value for money, bike tours also give you the added bonus of learning about the history of each place and experiencing the layout of an area first-hand under the tutelage of an experienced and knowledgeable guide.

Here’s our top-rated bike tours in 2011!

A perfect blue sky, friendly companions, and a knowledgeable guide – what else could you ask for on a Dutch Villages and Countryside Bike tour? We met at the Yellow Bike office near Central Station and biked the quick route to the ferry where we crossed over to the north part of Amsterdam and started the tour. We then took the flat, easy-to-navigate paths all around the countryside, seeing windmills, canals, scenic villages, and old churches interspersed with horses, cows and sheep grazing in the fields.

Viator’s Member-Only Deals are our way of rewarding customer loyalty by bringing our members the most unbeatable deals around the world each week. Our tours save you valuable time and these deals help you make the most of your travel budget!

Member-Only Deals provide exclusive access to deeply discounted deals you won’t find on any other website, with special discounts on tours and attractions ranging from 20% to 75%! Viator members can enjoy instant, on-the-spot availability – for date-specific, limited time only!

Have you heard about Viator’s Member-Only Deals? We are thrilled so many of our customers return to us year after year to book their next unforgettable travel experience, so to recognize and reward your loyalty we are bringing you the most unbeatable deals around the world each week!

Montreal likes to bill itself as having the best aspects of North America mixed with the best aspects of Europe, and in that respect, it’s not far wrong. There are few cities in the world that have Montreal’s mixture of buzz and vitality without feeling too intense and overbearing. It is a city that feels makes you fancy a drink, not need a drink, if that makes sense.

Have you heard about Viator’s new Member-Only Deals? We are thrilled so many of our customers return to us year after year to book their next unforgettable travel experience, so to recognize and reward your loyalty we are bringing you the most unbeatable deals around the world each week!

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Have you ever dreamt of being in the Palace of Versailles during the rule of the French Monarchy – living in luxury and spending your days strolling through Versailles’ expansive gardens? Well, we can’t turn back time, but we can do the next best thing. Viator is giving away 1 pair of tickets for our Versailles by Bike Day Tour. See more of Versailles then you could ever imagine on this once-in-a-lifetime bicycle tour!

For many visitors to Australia, Darwin is little more than the departure point for other more exotic adventures east, west or south, but Darwin is an intriguing city in itself. Weathering cyclones (occasionally), hungry crocodiles (generally), and air raids (during WWII), Darwin is a city that takes these events and the often-horrendous humidity in its stride. So, set aside a couple of days to get over that jet-lag, and take in the museums, markets, multiculturalism and, of course, the odd refreshing ale, in the steamy capital of the Northern Territory.

When you envision a biking tour, the former Iron Curtain countries of eastern Europe may not be the first places that come to mind. Yet eastern Europe has some of the most scenic routes on the continent. And thanks to hard work from some forward-looking leaders (and cooperation from private and public groups), bike trails literally go for hundreds of miles. You can ride a bike from Prague to Vienna on mostly off-highway trails. The really fit can take a 254-mile trip from Budapest all the way to Krakow, Poland. Those who want a shorter trip have plenty of choices too – like a city bicycle tour in Prague or Budapest.