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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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The Future Of Travel – Airline Travel Trends
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. It is… Read full article
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Travel Insurance Basics
To say the COVID-19 pandemic has been an unusual and confusing time is an understatement. As travel plans were canceled, many travelers turned to travel insurance and were surprised when they were unable to claim their trip cancellations due to… Read full article
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Top 4 Tours for a Culture Fix
4 Great Tours for a Cultural Fix Bicycle travel is a great way to get a taste for local culture – in its many forms. Here are a few of our bicycle tours filled with phenomenal routes and deep dives… Read full article
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Summer Cycling: Pro Tips For Keeping Cool
Summer is here which will inevitably lead to some hot days for cycling. We’ve got a few tips to keep you cool(ish) while riding, but before we jump into our tips for keeping cool, let’s revisit some of our old… Read full article
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Escape with these great virtual getaways
Virtual Experiences Throughout The World As most vacation plans remain in limbo we’re continuing to keep the sense of adventure alive with creative alternatives. Until we are all able physically hit the road, we’ve got a few virtual escapes that… Read full article
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Need a Cure for Cabin Fever?
Virtual Experiences Throughout The World While travel is temporarily off the table for most of us, virtual tourism is not. Galleries, museums and national parks all across the globe are just a few clicks away. Here’s a list of a… Read full article
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Discover the Path Less Pedaled
Selecting Your Cycling Vacation We have a variety of tours for a number of tastes, but what if you don’t know where to begin thinking about when and where? We have a few suggestions to help you narrow down your… Read full article
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Top 4 Tours For Getting Off the Beaten Path
There’s off the beaten path, and then there are these tours…. Take a deep dive into local culture as we cycle even further off the tourist trails into small towns where you’ll experience life as locals do. Travel through villages… Read full article