Category: Gravel Bikes

If you take a trip with a bicycle travel company to somewhere in Europe, chances are high you’ll be riding on roads used by motorized traffic. I get it, the thought of being on the open road on a bicycle and potentially encountering cars is terrifying.

Truth be told, cycling infrastructure in Europe is better than in many places in the world. So, what if you could book a cycling trip where you could ride paved or gravel paths while experiencing the best of your chosen destination? That’s what Eurobike Cycling Holidays hopes to hook you with.

Who Is Eurobike Cycling Holidays?

Eurobike Cycling Holidays was founded by Herbert Würtinger and Walter Schmid and started in 1995. But Würtinger and Schmid were not business partners at the start. They came to know each other first as teacher and student. After many years spent in the cycle tourism business, they established the current company.

In 2004, after taking residence in a new building, and in addition to its cycling offerings, the company started an offshoot company called Eurohike. But the two founders specifically focused more on cycling trips. By 2010, Eurobike Cycling Holidays stretched out to offer bicycle and boating trips.

Today, 30 years later, the company continues to provide “…organized active holidays, a wonderful route guidance, constant optimal support, top quality, reliability and a great team – that has been our philosophy from day one.”

Eurobike Cycling Holidays’ Company Mission

The tourism industry is inundated with so many choices in order to sway consumers to book a trip. Differentiation is the battle each company has to wage, and where they make their approach stand out is by defining it in a mission statement. For Eurobike Cycling Holidays, the company states its mission consists of three levels: purpose, vision, and mission.

These levels, however, are not drastically different from each other. In fact, they sort of meld together with the main tenet being “to make handpicked cycling holidays throughout Europe easy to experience and to pair them with the best service...”

The other two levels are for travelers to hopefully remember the experience as positive, so they’ll book another trip in the future. The last level, mission, is focused on how the company can achieve its purpose and vision by making sure it fully serves its customers’ needs.

Destinations and Types of Trips Offered

Eurobike Cycling Holidays has trips that visit 25 major countries and regions in Europe. In each country, the company does trips to certain regions, such as Tuscany in Italy. It breaks down the trips by difficulty level as easy, medium, challenging, and athletic.

An athletic trip would be for the hardcore cycling enthusiast who is used to pushing themselves and is in good physical shape. Or, to use the company’s description of these trips, “… individual cycling stages are alternately flat and hilly with longer climbs. The distance amounts to approx. 50-60 kilometres daily (a little less than 40 miles). Good endurance is a must for these cycle tours. You can expect well-maintained asphalt cycle paths as well as uneven and rocky roads.”

Typical Trip with Eurobike Cycling Holidays

Well, the big selling point about trips with this company is that they are all very affordable. For an athletic type trip over 8 days, the total cost is €1,159 (roughly $1361.31). How is it that Eurobike Cycling Holidays’ trips are so cheap? One of the reasons may be that travelers stay at one hotel during their trip or stay in affordable hotels along the route.

This price, of course, doesn’t include your plane travel to Italy. And the costs for other pieces of this trip don’t appear to be listed unless this price includes those elements. If you don’t wish to bring your bike, you can rent a bike from the company, but again, it’s not stated if the price of the trip includes the bike rental or if there is a separate cost.

Last Thoughts

Eurobike Cycling Holidays seems like the perfect company to travel with, especially if you’ve never done a cycling trip in Europe before. The company guarantees a trip on safe cycle paths or very low traffic farm roads. It has trips in every part of Europe you might want to visit, and the price is very affordable. They cater to the casual cyclist on up to the cycling diehard.

And if you want to bike when your travel partner would rather hike or bike and boat, the company can accommodate you there as well. Eurobike Cycling Holidays looks to offer trips through the end of September, so get in while you can and schedule your next cycling adventure.