Welcome to the wonderful world of Great Bike Tours. Our family-run company offers a wide range of active vacations to suit every taste and ability. Our season starts in January with our easy warm-winter bike tours in the Florida Keys & Everglades, followed in February by our once-in-a-lifetime 12-day New Zealand active vacation. In April we run our Georgia coast bike tours in the magical Golden Isles south of Savannah. Check out our two BRAND NEW TRIPS debuting in April and May — South Carolina Bike & Boat and Rhode Island Bike & Boat.
August is the perfect month to join our multisport vacation in New York’s Adirondack Park, and then in September we head back to the coast for our Nantucket & Martha’s Vineyard bike tour. In October we offer our famous Vermont fall foliage bike tours, followed by an easy Virginia bike tour in the Colonial Williamsburg area. Please join us in 2019 for one of these exciting active vacations. Book now!
The tour guides are the heart of the business, we all know that. They can help make or break your bicycle vacation. We want them to be enthusiastic, fun, supportive, patient, informative, and encouraging. We depend upon them to haul our luggage, fix our bikes, feed us, and generally take excellent care of us. So why entrust your bicycle vacation to just any average-joe guide? It’s time to travel with the best Great Bike Tours! Our veteran guides have been leading bicycle vacations since 1996, and have accompanied over 5,000 people on their trip-of-a-lifetime. So what are you waiting for… come travel with us!
Our company is small, by design. We only run one tour at a time… your tour. And by concentrating all our energy and passion into your vacation, we can ensure that your vacation is a “trip of a lifetime.” We empower our guides with the ability & flexibility to make each and every person’s trip special and memorable. A recent guest said: “They managed to make me feel like I was the only person on the tour.”
– Our tours are so much fun, all while getting some exercise and meeting new friends
– We are unpretentious. Our guides have a relaxed vibe and a laid-back attitude
– We welcome and accommodate cyclists of all abilities
– We allow and encourage our cyclists to travel at their own pace – after all, it’s not a race, it’s your vacation.
– Our staff has an incredible attention to detail
GBT has received the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence for the last five years, 2015-19. This award is given to the top 10 percent of bike-tour-companies that have “continually delivered a superior customer experience.”
GBT has been recommended by the Washington Post, Departures magazine, and more
The vast majority of our trips will have three leaders and two vans. We may even add a 4th guide if it will benefit the tour. On some of our smaller trips (13 people or less), we might opt for two leaders and one van, as long as we can still guarantee everyone a seat in the van while maintaining our exemplary level of service.
This was my first trip with Great Bike Tours but not my last! This tour was well balanced with biking, hiking, and kayaking. The tour guides were experienced, professional, and were great fun to be with. The accommodation’s were top notch, the food was amazing. I loved that they keep it to a small group of people so you get a chance to make new friends with similar interest. The guides make it a non pressure tour so that you do not feel pressured to do every activity if you need a break. Definitely would recommend this trip…Adirondacks are a must see!
Accompanied several friends on a wonderful bike trip and for Several of us – our very first! We thoroughly enjoyed Great Bike Tours. Chris and Simon were always right there close to help and Jessica drove the accompanying truck. Great times, great hotels,and fabulous sights. The naturalist was a great treat on the shrimp Boat to explain all they dredged.So, many have asked. Would I do it again – Absolutely!!!
This was my second bike tour with this company and it was wonderful from the beginning to the end. This time I was on The Golden Isles of Georgia tour. The bike routes were great and the accommodations and food fantastic. Our guides, Chris, Simon and Jessica were very friendly, helpful and accommodating. I highly recommend taking a bike trip with Great Bike Tours. Can’t wait for my next one!
My husband and I just finished the GBTours trip to New Zealand. It was fabulous…great, flexible, accommodating, and knowledgeable guides, excellent equipment and support, and a tour that highlighted both amazing little known spots and most of the must do areas. We have biked Provance and the Mendoza Wine Valley in Argentina and this tour and country
Birdie and I went on the Florida Everglades and Keys trip the first week we could in January. It was great. In fact, we have been on a lot of trips, but none was better than this one. The bikes, the accomodations, the food and especially Simon and Chris were perfect. They are real gentlemen who know how to put this on. The bike rides were pleasant and we also met some very nice people. We hope to go on another trip soon! It was excellent.
Our trip was just the right mix of fun, relaxation and cycling with Great Bike Tours. We loved the inns and delicious meals throughout the tour. Simon, Jessica and Chris (tour leaders) anticipated our every need and are consummate professionals. The price of the trip is a real value. We enjoyed the flexibility to cycle more or less according to our varied interests. Naturalist led shrimp boat tour was an amazing highlight!
This was our first bike trip ever with a group. We were ” over the top” about our experience. The hotels, the food, the knowledge of places we explored were way beyond our expectations. The customer service was outstanding and we can hardly wait to go on another tour with Simon, Jessica ,Chris, Samantha and anyone else who is with this company. We loved every minute of the trip and met people who we hope to meet up with again on future trips . Jeannie and Bob
A well planned and supported trip across some of the prettiest places on NZ’s south island. The guides are knowledgeable and fun people always there to allow you to ride till it hurts or get back in the van and enjoy the scenery from there. We stayed at first class accommodations including beach front hotels and wilderness lodges. The food and coffee are fantastic. The bikes and equipment first class and well maintained. I don’t know how you could make this trip any better. Five stars.
3282 Mt. Philo Rd,
Charlotte, VT 05445
3282 Mt. Philo Rd,
Charlotte, VT 05445
