Unforgettable E-Bike Adventure: Glide Through Hidden Gems

Great way to get some exercise while learning about Florence. The car traffic was a little "dodgy" at times, but Rebecca did a great job providing instructions and keeping everyone in the group together.

This was a fabulous tour and Marco the guide was amazing. He was very knowledgeable and made it enjoyable for me and my children. A great family event to do.

The tour was really nice. Our guide was really nice and took a lot of pictures of us. It was just my mom and I on the tour so we got lucky. The bikes were great. Our favorite part was definitely going up the hill and seeing the view of the city from up there.

This tour took us on busy main roads and the guide raced ahead with little regard for the members in the group. We were lucky to be alive at the end and I’m a moderately experienced rider. The audio quality was poor, and we were so busy trying to navigate the people and roads that there was little time to learn about the history. The guide did stop a few times at some main sites and take photos of us, so that was a positive.

Great experience for the price and guide was excellent!!! The agency staff could have been friendlier and honestly never greeted us with even a “hello”. Likely because no one else signed up for our time slot and they still had to honor the tour.

We had a really good time and Rebecca was a great guide. We saw so many sights, and to do it while navigating the streets of Florence made it an even greater learning experience. Thanks for an awesome tour.

Great to get out of the centre of the city and to see some things not on the tourist map. History great to hear and understand.

Pros: - Storefront where tour starts is easy to find. - Guide was very knowledgeable and told us some interesting lesser known facts about Florence. - Tour ended up being a private tour since nobody else showed up - Saw a variety of places which you would not have been able to see by walking only Cons: - Florence is not a very bike friendly city. We were sharing the roads with cars and scooters with no bike lane. There are not clear traffic laws, which was scary at times. The cobblestones are bumpy and uneven. - Was not informed of a weight limit and my husband is 6 ft 4 inches tall and 240 pounds. His seat kept falling down and this made it hard for him to pedal. The guide said it was due to my husband’s size, but I did not see a weight limit in the booking. - No helmets were provided or offered as an option. - The e-bikes are very heavy. They are difficult to maneuver and to start/stop quickly. A regular bike would have been much easier to use, which the shop did have. - The guide did not frequently check if we were close behind, so we got separated a few times. I imagine that a larger group would be separated even more easily. - the audio was very staticky and difficult to hear - No public toilet at the store front and no toilet stops along the route.

We are a group of 4 from the US and found our tour guide, Andrea, to be friendly but not very attentive to our needs. He also had a thick accent and sometimes wasn’t able to answer our questions because of the language barrier. After making sure our headsets worked the basic mechanics of the e-bikes, he took off like a flash without making sure our bikes fit/worked, offering us helmets or telling us where we were going. The first part of the ride was rather harrowing as we had to navigate through heavy pedestrian and vehicular traffic on very heavy bikes that were hard to maneuver and sometimes seemed to have a mind of their own. All the while, Andrea was pointing out things along the route as we were passing them, over a microphone that was very staticky. When we did stop, he assumed we knew more about Italian history than we did, so much of the information he provided went over our heads. No visuals were used to help us understand what we were looking at. The best part of the tour was after ascending a long, steep hill, we arrived to a stunning panoramic view of Florence. Unfortunately, not much time was allowed for us to explore the other attractions in the area including waterfalls and several statues/historic markers. We have been on many guided bike tours around the world and this one was one of the very few that left us feeling that we would have been better wandering around the city brother on our own or as part of a guided walking tour.

Biking through the city was challenging as we dodged the crowds. Views outside the city were stunning however. Good sampling of key Florence sites. Great excursion for avid, mature bikers.