Tips & Reviews
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Successful air travel starts and ends with Exito
You’ve booked your tour, the departure is confirmed, and now you’re ready to purchase flights for your upcoming international bicycle tour. While ExperiencePlus! provides a range of traveler planning services to anyone taking a Classic, Bike and Boat, or Expedition-style… Read full article
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Travel in good company
Once you commit to taking a guided bicycle tour, the tour operator you choose to travel with is an important decision point. At ExperiencePlus!, we know we’re only one of many companies that would love to show you the time… Read full article
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How to Reserve Extra Hotel Nights
Many of our travelers plan a bit of a cushion around their ExperiencePlus! cycling adventure to have time to get over jetlag, discover new places or enjoy a bit of ‘dolce vita’ before or after their tour. If this is… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Pre-Trip Planning Checklist
After you browse our tours, narrow your choices, and finally book your next, or first, bicycle vacation, the work of planning your travel begins. What are the best next steps we recommend that you take on this journey? To answer… Read full article
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Best Red Flashing Lights for Day or Night Riding
At ExperiencePlus!, we mount back of bike red flashing lights onto all our bikes for added daytime safety. While research on the effectiveness of this practice is limited to a 2004-05 study in Denmark, popular opinion leans towards using ‘daytime… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Finding Flights Just Got Easier
Save Time and Money When Booking Your Flights Flight Arrangements Made Easy With Exito Travel Booking a flight can be somewhat of a grueling, not to mention time consuming, process. Our friends at Exito Travel, a flight consolidator operating globally,… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Improve your European train experience
When you book a tour with ExperiencePlus! you gain access to more travel planning information than you could ever imagine. In fact, you don’t even have to book a tour to access pages of information on planning your next trip… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
5 Ways to Save $ on an EP Bike Tour
If you’ve toured with ExperiencePlus!, you are likely aware that for a limited time each fall we offer a $200 Early Booking Discount per person. That’s right, when you submit a tour reservation before our discount expires (in 2022 the… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Three Off-Season Secrets
If you were lucky enough to travel in Europe between May and August 2022, you likely experienced one (or more) of the following: unseasonably hot temperatures, lost luggage, crowds, high prices. Seeing some of the world’s most amazing places can… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Never lose your luggage again
Two times within one month I had the the displeasure of watching my boyfriend go through the agony of trying to find lost luggage. The first time was arriving home on an airport shuttle only to discover another passenger had… Read full article
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3 Perspectives On Touring With E-bikes
I have known Janice and Larry for more than 20 years. I met Janice through our local women’s mountain biking club. Janice’s svelte, steely physique and superior VO2 max allow her to climb with a powerful, quick cadence. On the… Read full article
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E-Bikes, Past, Present and Future Trends
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Armed with sun sleeves
I’m always a bit nervous at the beginning of each cycling season when it’s warm enough to don a short sleeve jersey and shorts. Aside from my alabaster skin blinding anyone within a quarter-mile radius, those first days of full… Read full article
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What’s In My Rear Rack Pack
On every ExperiencePlus! trip we provide a rear rack pack to carry the items you’ll need during your ride. As with any kind of packing, there is a delicate balance between bringing what you may need and overpacking. I have… Read full article
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An insider’s look at the new Explorer Tour style
When ExperiencePlus! started developing new tour styles in 2018, little did we know the pandemic would prevent us from launching our inaugural Explorer tours until 2022. Now that the season is getting underway and we’ve sold out our May 1… Read full article
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Travel Photography Tips for Your Next Tour
By Kevin Wenning – Kevin just finished a private tour that he organized through Southern Tuscany, here he shares some technical and easy to implement tips for taking great photos. Have you ever been determined to come home with better… Read full article
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The Future Of Travel – Health and Safety
Speculation about who, how, when and what the future of travel will look like fills my inbox every day. In an effort to summarize all the ideas and speculation we have started a new series in our newsletter called the… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
The Future Of Travel – Traveler Preferences
Speculation about who, how, when and what the future of travel will look like fills my inbox every day. Newsletters from every corner of the travel industry include surveys, articles and industry experts imagining what will happen next. The World… Read full article